How do I work with the Quick Search form?

You may select one or more databases to target your search. Refer to the Content sources introduction for details of each database and the search fields available by database for complete details of the individual search fields.

Depending upon your account, one or more databases might be checked by default when you begin your search queries on the Quick Search form.

1. Click ‘Search’ at the top of any Engineering Village page.
2. Scroll down and click ‘Quick Search.’ The Quick Search form opens.
3. Click the database link under the ‘Search documents’ text box. The ‘Available databases’ flyout menu opens.
4. To select all databases available for your account, click the ‘Select all available databases’ toggle switch.  

   • A message on your screen confirms that all databases were added.
5. To select one or more databases, click the individual toggle switch(es) for the database(s) that you would like to use for your search queries.

   • A message(s) on your screen confirms that your database selection(s) were added.
6. To remove all databases available for your account, click the ‘Select all available databases’ toggle switch.  

   • A message on your screen confirms that all databases were removed.
   • You will need to select one or more databases to search.
7. To remove one or more databases, click the individual toggle switch(es) for the database(s) you want to remove from your search queries.

   • A message(s) on your screen confirms that your database selection(s) were removed.
8. Click ‘Explore databases’ to learn more about the Engineering Village databases.
9. Click ‘Contact Us’ to contact an Engineering Village sales team member.

Follow these steps to run a search on the Quick Search form:

1. From the ‘Search within’ dropdown menu, click the down arrow to select a field to use for your search term(s).
2. Under the ‘Search documents’ label, enter your search term(s) into the text box.

   • By default, one row is provided in which you can enter search terms.
   • An entry for the first search field is required (as indicated by the asterisk following the ‘Search documents’ label).
3. If desired, click ‘+ Add search field’ to reveal a maximum of 12 rows.

   • If you added a new search field row, click the down arrow in the box at the left and select an operator (AND, OR, or NOT). See Using Boolean operators for tips.
4. If desired, click ‘Add year range.’ The ‘Publish from’ and ‘To’ dropdown menus open.

   • From the ‘Publish from’ dropdown menu, click the down arrow to scroll to select the beginning publication year.
   • From the ‘To’ dropdown menu, click the down arrow to scroll to select the ending publication year.
5. To specify more fields and search terms, repeat steps 1 through 3.
6. Click the trash can (delete) icon at the end of a row if you want to remove any row(s) you added.
7. After you have completed all your selections for your search query, click the ‘Search’ button to run your search. The page refreshes and the Document results list will appear below the search text box.
8. Click the Elsevier logo in the top left corner of the Quick Search Document results list to return to the Quick Search form.

   • Alternately, you can click the ‘Search’ tab at the top of any Engineering Village page. The Search dropdown menu opens.

     • Click ‘Quick Search.’ The Quick Search form opens.

The ‘Recently searched’ section of the Quick Search form contains up to five of your most recent Quick Search queries. The total number of search results is listed to the right of each search query.

1. Click any search queries in this section to rerun the search. The page refreshes, and the Quick Search Document results list displays.
2. Click ‘View all history’ for your ‘Search history on Engineering Village’ page.
3. Click ‘View More’ to see the entire search query string if it has been truncated. The ‘Recently searched query’ pop-up window opens.

After conducting a search from the Quick Search form, you may further enhance your search queries via dropdown menu selections from the Document results list.

You may create an alert, save this search, or share this search from this search query.

Refer to ‘How can I limit searches by database?’ and ‘How can I work with search results?’ for further information about running Quick searches.

Additionally, you may refer to How can I improve my Expert search? to learn about the precise search features available when running Expert searches.

The chart below describes additional Document results list Quick search features.

There are additional general search tips that are useful to know such as case sensitivity, exact phrase, proximity search, truncation, and wildcards. Refer to the chart below.