Engineering Village Quick Reference Guide Engineering Village Quick Reference Guide This user guide provides on overview of the most frequently used Engineering village search options, helping you improve efficiency, productivity and facilitate important discoveries easier. www.engineeringvillage.com blog.engineeringvillage.com @engvillage 2 | August 2015 Engineering Village | Quick Reference Guide Quick Reference Summary Search Search for an exact phrase by using quotation marks or brackets: “rocket propulsion laboratory” {rocket propulsion laboratory} Search within a specific field using WN “wearable technology” wn TI and video wn AB Boolean and Connectors AND – terms exist together within a document or field. AND narrows the number of documents retrieved. OR – each term can exist separately within a document or field. OR expands the number of documents retrieved. NOT – excludes terms from a document or field. NEAR – searches for terms in proximity. ONEAR specifies the exact order of terms. NEAR and ONEAR cannot be used with truncation, wildcards, parenthesis, braces or quotation marks. Solar NEAR energy Wind NEAR/3 power Energy ONEAR/0 policy Use parentheses to search compound or nested Boolean statements (“jet propulsion” OR “rocket propulsion”) AND engine* Additional Tips Engineering Village is not case-sensitive. Queries may be entered in any case or mixture of cases. Frequently used fields: AU – author ST – serial title (journal name) TI – title KY – subject/title/abstract AB – abstract CV – controlled term (index/thesaurus term) AF – author affiliation LA – language CO – country of publication YR – year The complete Engineering Village Help file can viewed in the ‘Support’ menu in the top navigation bar. NOTE: Images used in this quick reference guide may be slightly different at each organization depending on subscription levels. www.elsevier.com/engineering-village August 2015 | 3 Quick Search The Quick Search page is an easy to use search form designed to enable both novice and expert searchers to locate relevant information quickly and easily. 6 1 2 7 3 4 8 9 5 1 Database: Select one or more databases. Only databases with 5 Search History: A list of the most recent 50 searches an organizational subscription will be listed. conducted during a session is in the ‘Search history’ box at the bottom of the Quick Search, Expert Search and Thesaurus 2 Search For: Type keywords in the search box. Use AND, OR, and NOT operators from the drop-down menu to narrow Search pages. Searches can be combined using the check or broaden search results. Click on the ‘All fields’ drop down boxes and pull down arrows. Searches can also be edited, arrows to enable specific fields to be searched (Author, Author saved or used for an Alert. If a saved search or an Alert is affiliation, Controlled term, Source title, etc.). Click ‘Add created, the user will need to register and login. The search search field’ to add more rows (up to a maximum of 12). history is deleted once the user ends a session. 6 Browse Indexes: Depending on the database selected, the 3 Limit To: Choices for limiting searches to a specific type of content will depend on the database selected and the fields Browse Indexes box will appear on the right side of the used in that database. Use the drop down arrows to see screen. Users can locate a specific author, publisher, journal the list of choices for each field. Limit fields may include title or index term used within the database. By searching document type (journal articles, proceedings), treatment type with index terms, users can locate and retrieve highly (review, bibliography), discipline type (physics, computers) accurate results. and language. 7 Latest Resources: Links to additional training materials, videos, news and feedback links. 4 Sort By: Results can be sorted by relevance or publication year. The ‘autostemming’ function enables searching for a 8 More Sources: Links to additional engineering sources root word and words formed with other possible suffixes. available at your institute. For example, if the term “control” is searched using 9 Interactive Equations: Interactive equations and tools autostemming, the results list will contain: controllers, Powered by Knovel contain over 500 interactive engineering control, controlling, controlled, controls. This allows retrieval equations plus a unit converter and periodic table. Knovel of many variations of a word. subscribers have access to all 500+ equations and non-Knovel subscribers are able to use 125 of them. 4 | August 2015 Engineering Village | Quick Reference Guide Results page 1 2 3 6 4 7 14 5 8 9 11 12 10 13 Downloading Content: 1 Articles found: The number of search results is displayed Records can be downloaded directly to a computer or followed by a list of databases searched and a clickable link to into Mendeley, Google Drive, DropBox and RefWorks. the search query that was used. Formats available include plain text, RefWorks, BibTex, 2 Features: Start a new search, edit a search, save a search for Excel, PDF, RTF or RIS format (RIS is compatible with later use, create a search alert, establish an RSS feed or view EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager). If a reference search history. management tool such as Mendeley is used, it needs to be installed prior to the record download. Registered users can 3 Refine results: After completing a search, a list of categories save their download preferences for use each time they log appears on the left side of the search results page. Each into Engineering Village. category enables users to modify search queries. The order of the boxes can be modified by clicking and dragging a box 1. Select records for downloading using check boxes next to up or down. The categories will remain in the new order each record. for users who are registered and logged in. The categories 2. Click ‘Save to PC’ above the search results. The Download displayed are database dependent. Settings menu appears. 4 Limit to/Exclude: The ‘Limit to’ button will limit search results 3. Select format and location for download. to only include terms that were selected from the categories, while the ‘Exclude’ button will eliminate terms from selected 4. Click ‘Download’. categories. Use the search button under ‘Run new search with 9 Abstract: The clickable title displays the abstract record. selected facets’ to ignore the original search and use only 10 Detailed: The abstract record with additional details such as terms chosen using the categories. document type, number of references and language. 5 Add a term: Use the ‘Add a term’ box to enter a term and 11 Show preview: View a preview of the abstract. refine your results by choosing: 12 Cited by in Scopus: The cited by count appears in search • The ‘Limit to’ button to search the term. results near each Compendex and Inspec article that contains • The ‘Exclude’ button to exclude the term. one or more citations within the Scopus database of scientific • Select one or more items from the categories, click ‘Limit to’ literature. The cited by information is also available on the or ‘Exclude’. abstract page in the ‘Tools in Scopus’ menu. 13 Full Text: A full text button will be displayed in the record 6 Select: Select all records on the page or the first 500 records in the results list using the ‘Select’ box and pull down arrow. if an electronic subscription to the document is available Selecting records enables users to Email, Print, Download, through a separate organizational subscription, and links have or Save them. The maximum number of records that can be been established between Engineering Village and the full text selected at any point is 500. electronic document. 14 Sort by: Results can be sorted by Relevance and Date 7 Selected Records: View records selected using the check boxes next to each article citation. (Oldest or Newest) within all Engineering Village databases. Additional sort options for specific databases may include 8 Manage and Output Your Results: On the results page, Author (A-Z and Z-A), Source (A-Z and Z-A), or Publisher users can Email, Print, Download and Save results to a folder. (A-Z and Z-A). Registration is necessary for creating folders. www.elsevier.com/engineering-village August 2015 | 5 Abstract and Detailed records 1 Abstract page: The Abstract page provides many types of 4 Compendex Refs: If searching only the Compendex database, information about a document, including author affiliation, a Compendex Refs tab will be displayed listing articles cited main headings in the document, uncontrolled terms, and within the current document. Email, Print and Download are classification codes. not available on the Compendex Refs tab. 2 Detailed page: The Detailed page provides additional 5 Search term emphasis: Search terms are highlighted within information such as ISSN and country of publication. the abstract/detailed records. If a user is registered and logged in, the highlight color can be changed and saved for 3 Result options: Several operations are possible for processing records. Download the full text article (if available at future search sessions. your institute), Blog this (displays the URL of this article 6 Tools in Scopus: The ‘Tools in Scopus’ box contains citation for blogging), Email, Print, Download the Bibliographic information and links to author details. Two of the latest information, and Save Abstract to a Personal Folder articles citing the currently displayed article will be listed. (login required). Subscribers to Scopus can click-through to Scopus to see record details. The cited by link will only appear if the document has been cited by other documents in Scopus. 3 1 4 2 5 6 6 | August 2015 Engineering Village | Quick Reference Guide Expert Search 1 Expert Search: Expert Search provides power and flexibility by incorporating advanced Boolean logic, as well as additional search options other than Quick Search.