QuickQUICK Reference REFERENCE Card Ei Compendex® Classic: SCITEC; COMPEN Provider: Engineering Information Inc. nexis.comSM path: Market & Industry / By Industry & Topic / Science & Technology lexis.com® path: Market & Industry / By Industry & Topic / Science & Technology DESCRIPTION SUBJECTS COVERED ▲ Aeronautical and aerospace The Ei Compendex® database is the online version of the Engineering Index, which engineering provides abstracted information from the world’s significant engineering and ▲ Applied physics (high energy, plasma, technological literature. The Compendex database provides worldwide coverage of nuclear and solid state) approximately 4,500 journals and selected government reports and books. 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LexisNexis 800-543-6862 www.lexis.com Ei Compendex AUDIENCE SEGMENTS The following industries have ABSTRACT Contains the full-text of an article’s abstract, plus the publishing informa- applications for Ei Compendex: tion relating to the original article (e.g., the number of references and the language of the publication) ▲ Aeronautics & aerospace AFFILIATION Contains the institutional affiliations of the article’s authors, plus available e-mail addresses ▲ Agriculture AUTHORS Contains the names of the authors of the article, including collaborations ▲ Automotive BOOK-INFO Contains the English version of the book title (both the main and subtitles), the author/editor of the book, the ISBN (International Standard Book ▲ Biotechnology Number), and the publisher of the book CAS-RN Contains the Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Numbers for the article ▲ Chemical (and may also include names of the identified compounds) ▲ Computers CODEN Contains the internationally accepted 5-letter Chemical Abstracts Society (CAS) CODEN for periodical titles ▲ Consumer goods CONFERENCE-INFO Contains the title, location, and date (or date range) of a scientific meeting or conference, including the name of an organization that supported or ▲ Energy/utility/oil/gas funded the conference ▲ Environmental resources management ISSN Contains the ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) of the journal JOURNAL NAME Contains the name of the journal ▲ Global Law & Business KEYWORDS Contains the article keywords supplied by the author ▲ Industrial sanitation ORGANISM-INDEX Contains the formal scientific name and the informal common name for organisms (living, extinct, or fossil), the higher taxonomic categories, or ▲ Legal Practice Areas the names of cell lines mentioned in the source document •Environmental PATENT-INFO Contains the patent number, the issue date of the official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office patents from which the patent • Energy record was taken; the class and subclass numbers; the country in which the • Global Law & Business patent was granted; and the name of the person or organization to whom the rights were assigned • Insurance TITLE Contains the English or non-English article title •Patent •Personal Injury ▲ Media/broadcast/publishing ▲ Medical/healthcare ▲ Pharmaceutical ▲ Telecommunications ▲ Waste management LexisNexis and the Knowledge Burst logo are trademarks, lexis.com is a registered trademark, and nexis.com is a service mark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. 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