How can I work with Affiliation search results?

1. Click the ‘Search’ tab at the top of any Engineering Village page.
2. Scroll down and click ‘Affiliation.’ A new Affiliation search page opens.
3. Run a new Affiliation search.

Edit your search terms as needed in the ‘Affiliation name’ box and click the magnifying glass search icon to run the search.

The Display dropdown above the search results allows you to specify how many Affiliation results you would like to display per page.

The default is 25; you can increase this total to 50 or 100. You may change this default option on the ‘Results’ tab of the My preferences page.

To change the default number for this session, from the ‘Display’ label, click the number ‘25’ or the down arrow, and select either ‘50’ or ‘100’ from the dropdown. The page refreshes with the new number of results displayed. Your new setting stays throughout your session, regardless of how many searches you run, until you end your session.

Count (DESC) – (total number of Compendex records in descending frequency order) is the default sort method. Additionally, you may choose to sort your results using one of the methods listed below by selecting the desired option from the ‘Sort by:’ dropdown list located above the search results.

• Count (ASC) - (Ascending)
• Relevance
• Affiliation (A-Z and Z-A)
• City (A-Z and Z-A)
• Country (A-Z and Z-A)

The Affiliation result list contains the following details about each affiliation:

• Affiliation's preferred name
• Affiliation's variant name
• Affiliation's total number of associated documents
• Affiliation's city
• Affiliation's country/region

You can view the total number of Compendex records associated with each individual affiliation via the documents’ total numbers links on the Affiliation results list.

1. From the ‘Documents’ column, select the affiliation’s documents by clicking the total number of documents associated with the affiliation. An Expert search results list opens for that affiliation.
2. From the Expert search results list, you may create alerts, save searches, share searches, create an RSS feed, select records, and manage search results as with any Expert search query.
3. Click the ‘Affiliation results’ icon in the bar beneath the search query to return to the ‘Affiliation results’ list.

You can combine individual affiliation selections so that your search results contain the associated documents from all your selected affiliations. This feature allows you to reduce the number of Affiliation search queries that you must conduct to see all the documents associated with your selected affiliations.

You may select a maximum of 50 affiliations to combine on the Affiliation results list.

1. From the ‘Name’ column, select the checkbox(es) of the affiliations you want to include in the results of your Affiliation search query.

   • The total number of affiliations that you have selected will be listed in the row above the Affiliation results list.
2. From the row above the list of affiliations, click ‘Combine affiliations.’ An Expert search results list opens, including all the affiliations you selected.

   • Alternatively, you may click ‘Clear’ if you would like to remove all the affiliations you have selected.
3. From the Expert search results list, you may create alerts, save searches, share searches, create an RSS feed, select records, and manage search results as with any Expert search query.
4. Click the ‘Affiliation results’ icon in the bar beneath the Expert search query on the Document results page to return to the ‘Affiliation results’ list.