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December 2025

Engineering Village has made the following updates for December 2025:

Engineering Village has released Engineering Village AI and Query Builder

Engineering Village AI is an advanced tool that applies artificial intelligence to help you efficiently explore academic research content and receive targeted research summaries and insights. Powered by reliable Compendex curated data, Engineering Village AI strives to simplify the research process, support knowledge discovery, and provide updates on the latest advancements in your areas of study.

Additionally, you can broaden your Engineering Village search queries using the new query builder feature on the Quick Search page. The query builder has been designed to interpret natural language, Boolean expressions, and simple keyword queries. This new feature is a powerful application that uses Engineering Village AI to help you broaden your search queries more efficiently. We are excited to share that this new product feature is in Alpha release. While we are still testing and fine-tuning its core functionality, it is not yet available to everyone. If your institution wants to try it early and share feedback, you may send an email note to our product manager Matt at [email protected].

Refer to the following FAQs for more information about Engineering Village AI and the new Query builder features:

What is Engineering Village AI?

How do I use the Engineering Village AI feature?

How do I use the query builder feature in Quick Search?

January 2025

Engineering Village has made the following update for January 2025:

Engineering Village has released Patents Plus

Patents Plus is an integrated database that currently features patent offices including China, Europe, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This patent database is enhanced with Compendex subject indexing.

Refer to the following FAQs for more information about Patents Plus:

How can I work with patent search results?

What are Engineering Village's Content Sources?

Which search fields do Engineering Village databases include?

August 2024

Engineering Village has made the following update for August 2024:

Enhancements to Engineering Village search using wildcards and truncation

You may now use wildcards and truncation when conducting exact phrase search and proximity operator (NEAR and ONEAR) search queries. Refer to the following FAQs for detailed descriptions and examples of these Engineering Village search feature improvements.

What are the general rules for searching?

How do I use the Proximity/NEAR and ONEAR operators?