How can I work with search results?

After running a search query, click the magnifying glass icon located to the right of the Search box. Your search is rerun.

Edit your search terms as needed in the Search box(es) and click the magnifying glass icon to run the search.

From the results page, click ‘Search history’ at the top of the Engineering Village page to view your most recent search results.

• Click ‘View all results’ to access your entire Search history for this search session.

1. Click ‘Search’ at the top of the Engineering Village page and scroll down to the Quick search, Expert search, Thesaurus search, Author, Affiliation, Conference series, Engineering Research Profile, or Inspec Analytics links.
2. Click the desired search type. The search form that you selected opens.

You can create email search alertsopens in new tab/window to receive notifications every Friday after each weekly database update of new records matching a saved query. You must have created an account and be signed in to Engineering Village to create alerts.

You can save a search queryopens in new tab/window for future use. Once you save a search, you can view, rerun, modify, rename, or delete it. You must have created an account and be signed into Engineering Village to save searches.

You can share your search query with others.

1. Click ‘Share search’ in the bar above the search results. The ‘Share these results’ pop-up opens with the URL link for this search query.
2. Click ‘Copy.’ The label for the ‘Copy’ button changes to ‘Copied’, and a message appears above the button confirming that the URL was copied to the clipboard.
3. Paste this URL link via email messages, documents, blog posts, etc., to share with others.

In Engineering Village, you can specify how your results will be sortedopens in new tab/window before you submit the search or change them afterward on the Document results page.

Relevance (from most to least relevant) is the default sort method. You may change this default on the ‘Results’ tab of the ‘My preferences’opens in new tab/window page.

The ‘Display’ dropdown menu located in the bar beneath the ‘Sort by:’ option allows you to specify how many 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’opens in new tab/window page.

To change the default number, click the number ‘25’ (or the down arrow), and select either 50 or 100 from the dropdown menu. The Document results 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.

The following is a list of various possible items that a document may display on the Document results page.

• Document title – Click the title to open the record page view of the document
• Authors’/Editors’ names – Click the author’s/editor’s name to run a search of all Engineering Village documents written/edited by that author/editor
• Author Affiliation
• Source title
• Versions (Compendex Standards only)
• Status (Compendex Standards only)
• Volume
• Issue/Number
• Page
• Publication date
• Language
• Document database
• Document type
• Various types of indicators such as ‘Article in Press,’ ‘In Process,’ and ‘Open Access’
• ‘Show preview’ – Click this link to open a brief description of the document
• ‘more search terms’ - If this text is present at the end of the Abstract preview, click the link to see the remaining Abstract preview text for the additional search terms. The link will show the number of remaining search terms in the Abstract preview.
• ‘Cited by in Scopus’ – If present, click this link to open a Results list in Scopus that contains all the documents that have cited this document.

Engineering Village allows you to select recordsopens in new tab/window in the Search results by the following:

• Individually selecting the checkboxes next to their corresponding records
• Selecting all records on the page (selects up to 100 records depending upon the total of results selected for display on the page)

  • Once selected, the records are transferred to the Selected records page. You can add up to 5,000 records.

    • From the ‘More’ tab in the top navigation bar, click ‘Selected records’ to open the page and work with your selected records.
• Selecting all records (a maximum of the first 5,000 records will appear in the result set)

  • If you choose this option, all your other current selected records will be removed.

Search terms in a result list (and on the record page) are highlighted according to your results preferencesopens in new tab/window settings. All settings selected on the results tab of the ‘My preferences’ page are default display settings that have been implemented when using Engineering Village.

1. Select the checkboxes of two or more records in your search results. These selections are added to the ‘Selected records’ page.
2. Click ‘Selected records’ at the top of the page. The total number of selected records appears after the label. The ‘Selected records’ page opens.
3. From the ‘Selected records’ page, select ‘Citation format,’ ‘Abstract format,’ or ‘Detailed format’ from the drop-down.

Your records display in the ‘Selected records’ in the chosen format.

Each document title is a hyperlink to its record page view. Click a document's title to open the record page.

See How do I view a document's details?opens in new tab/window for further information.

Most records in a set of search results have the option to view a text description of the record's content.

If a record has a preview:

• Click ‘Show preview’ (or the down arrow beside this label) to open a brief description of the record's content from the abstract field.

  • Click the link at the end of the brief description to display the entire contents of the abstract field inline. This link will show how many additional times the search term(s) will be displayed in the expanded description. Example: (7 more search terms)
• Click ‘Show preview’ again (or the up arrow beside this label) to close the preview.

A search results item may list ‘Cited by in Scopus’ counts within Scopus. If one or more Scopus cited by counts lists a record, the number will be indicated beside the ‘Show/Hide Preview’ button.