April 2026Engineering Village has made the following updates for April 2026:Engineering Village has released a new Accessibility StatementAt Elsevier, accessibility is a key part of how we support researchers,...

What's new in this release?

This page provides an overview of how the Engineering Village search features work. Select a topic of interest below to learn more.Show allHide allAuthor and Affiliation Index searchesAuthor search provides...

What are the general rules for searching?

Select a section below to see relevant information about how to optimally run Engineering Village on your system.Show allHide allSupported browsers and systemsFor the best results, Engineering Village...

What are the browser requirements and settings?

Email alerts are messages sent every Friday after each weekly database update that contain any new records matching a saved query. You may have a maximum of 260 email alerts and saved searches at once....

How do I create and use email alerts?

The ‘Search history on Engineering Village’ page lists searches completed within each session. This list indicates the following information for each search query:Search number (#1 to a maximum of #50)Number...

How can I use my search history?

Thesauri are guides to the controlled vocabulary used to index articles for Engineering Village. Thesauri are hierarchical, organizing terms by broader, narrower, or related concepts.The Thesaurus search...

How can I improve my thesaurus search?

The Proximity / NEAR and ONEAR operators enable you to search for terms that are near or adjacent to each other within the text of the record.HowBelow you can learn how to use the Proximity / NEAR and...

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

The Engineering Village pages that provide access to these features are the Search results pages, Selected records results pages, the Record page, and the Saved folders page.HowSelect a relevant section...

How do I email, print, share, download, export, or cite documents?

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...

What is Engineering Village AI?

Use limits to further define your desired search results. After running a Quick search query, specific limits are available on the Document results list. Expert searches can be limited only by publication...

How can I limit searches by database?

There are several ways of managing your search results.HowSelect a topic below to find out more about search results:Show allHide allRerun your searchAfter running a search query, click the magnifying...

How can I work with search results?

The Quick Search form is a start page designed for quick and simple searches. Below, you can learn how to use it to start your searches in Engineering Village.Show allHide allSelect databases on the Quick...

How do I work with the Quick Search form?

As a subscriber to Engineering Village, you have many customization options from which to choose. To have any of these customizations added for your library's usage, please ask your librarian or account...

What can I customize in Engineering Village?

Keep current with recently added content by creating alerts for the latest technical information and other news which meet your search criteria, without having to rerun these same searches repeatedly.RSS...

How can I set up RSS feeds?

Article in Press (AIP) documents have been accepted for publication but have not yet been assigned to a journal issue. Having access to Article in Press documents allows you to obtain critical and current...

How do I work with Article in Press documents?

Preprints are preliminary versions of scholarly or scientific manuscripts that precede publication in a peer-reviewed journal and act as an early indication of research.Preprints reside on preprint servers,...

What are preprints?

You can save a search query for future use. Once you save a search, you can view, rerun, modify, change the name, or delete it. These saved searches do not expire.You can save searches from the Search...

How do I create and manage saved searches?

Patents Plus is an integrated patents database in Engineering Village currently including documents from the following patent authorities: [Brazil (BR), China (CN), Europe (EP), Germany (DE), Japan (JP),...

How can I work with patent search results?

The Expert search provides search power and flexibility by incorporating advanced Boolean logic and including more search options than Quick Search. A single search box is provided in the Expert search....

How can I improve my expert search?

When you select more than one database in your search query, Engineering Village might find the same record in more than one database.The ‘Remove duplicates’ feature allows you to remove duplicate records...

How do I remove duplicate search results?

The ‘Metrics’ section of the Engineering Village record page contains two Scopus items:Scopus CitationsScopus AuthorsAll Engineering Village users have access to Scopus, regardless of their Scopus subscription...

How do I work with documents cited in Scopus?

How do I use the Engineering Village AI feature?

Saving documents to folders allows you to work with them further without having to search for the documents again. You can create a maximum of 10 folders with each containing a maximum of 100 documents.You...

How do I save documents to a folder?

Engineering Village offers several ways to search its databases:Quick search - designed for quick, basic searchingExpert search - provides more power and flexibility than Quick search because it incorporates...

What are the different types of searches?

The full texts of most documents in Compendex and Inspec are available from the Linda Hall Library, one of the world's leading independent research libraries dedicated to science, engineering, and technology.HowFollow...

What is the Linda Hall Library document delivery service?

If you are signed in to Engineering Village, you can control your user preferences.Note: All settings indicated on the ‘My preferences’ form are considered default settings when the user has created an...

How do I set my preferences for results, downloads, searches, or ERP?

The record page view provides a comprehensive list of information about a document. You may access many Engineering Village features from this detailed view of the document.HowFollow these methods to view...

How do I view a document's details?

In Quick and Expert search you can specify which database(s) you want to include in your search queries by selecting them in the ‘Databases’ tab or by refining your preference(s) using the ‘Databases’...

What are the Engineering Village database search codes?

Create folders to save documents so you can easily find them later. You can create up to 10 folders, each containing up to 100 documents.Note: You must have created an Engineering Village account and be...

How do I create and manage folders?

Affiliation search provides the ability for the user to search for Compendex records via a listing of the profiles from author's affiliations. These profiles contain the affiliations' preferred names as...

How do I perform an Affiliation search?

If you have a subscription to both Engineering Village and Knovel, you have the option to run your most recent Engineering Village search within the Knovel database.HowSelect a relevant section below to...

How do I search with Knovel?

Compendex and Inspec records contain standardized numeric quantities and ranges. This normalized format of data improves numeric search functionality in Engineering Village.Use the Expert search form to...

What are the Numeric search fields?

Combined searches allow you to search multiple bibliographic databases simultaneously and remove duplicate records. The available databases are determined by your institution's subscriptions.The available...

What are combined databases searches?

Compendex and Inspec records contain standardized numeric quantities and ranges. This normalized format of data improves numeric search functionality in Engineering Village.The numeric filter allows you...

How do I use the numeric filter?

In Expert search you can specify which field(s) you want to include in your search queries.Note: The field codes that will be displayed depend upon your current database selection(s).Listed below are the...

What are the Expert search field codes?

The Mapping tool is standard in GEOBASE and GeoRef databases. This tool is used for graphically showing or mapping the significant geographic features mentioned in the records contained in the result set...

How do I use the GEOBASE and GeoRef mapping tool?

Author search provides the ability for the user to search for Compendex records via a listing of authors' profiles. These profiles contain the authors' preferred names as well as the variant names they...

How do I perform an Author search?

As your research evolves, you might want to combine some of your previous queries in your search history to run a new search.Important notes:Only searches that are run in the same database (or same combination...

How can I combine my searches?

In Engineering Village you can specify how your results will be sorted before you submit the search. You may also change the sort order of your search results after you submit your search.Relevance (from...

How do I change the sort order of search results?

Standards are published documents that establish specific requirements and are created to ensure the consistency and reliability of methods, services, and products.HowClick a section below to see more...

What are Standards?

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,...

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

View our Refine results video tutorial.After you perform an initial search, a list of facets appears in the left pane of the search results. These facets include such categories as ‘Author,’ ‘Author affiliation,’...

How do I refine Quick, Expert, and Thesaurus search results?

Compendex and Inspec records contain standardized numeric quantities and ranges. This normalized format of numeric data improves numeric search functionality in Engineering Village.All 62 numeric fields...

What are the Numeric search optional units?

How can I improve my numeric search?

The Selected records page is where you can collect Engineering Village documents for your research, so you can email, print, download, or save them. You can view the Selected records page in the Citation,...

How do I use selected records?

The categories of information in the ‘Refine results’ pane are called facets, and you can easily download this facet data.HowFollow these steps to download a facet:Show allHide allDownload items from a...

How do I download facets?

The categories of information in the Refine results pane are called facets, and you can easily view these facets in a chart format.For example, if you search for the term transcription factors, you can...

How do I view facets in a chart?

You can work with your affiliation search results in many ways. Affiliation search results list profiles from the authors' affiliations. These profiles contain the affiliations' preferred names as well...

How can I work with Affiliation search results?

After you perform an initial Author search, a list of facets appears in the left pane of the Author search results. These facets include the categories ‘Source title,’ ‘City,’ ‘Country/Region,’ and ‘Affiliation.’Note:...

How do I refine Author search results?

Accessibility at ElsevierAt Elsevier, accessibility is a key part of how we support researchers, librarians, and students worldwide. We are committed to creating digital experiences that are inclusive...

What is the Engineering Village Accessibility Statement?

EventsElsevier organizes or participates in many types of events around the world.  Go to the link below to see listings of these various events.See overview of conferences, exhibitions, and webinarsSocial...

How can I find the EV events, webinars, and social media updates?

An accession number is a unique identifier number assigned to a document in a database. In Engineering Village, accession numbers are assigned to every document in each database, except for the patent...

What are the accession number formats used in Engineering Village?

Engineering Village users may email, print, or download the entire list of search queries conducted during a search session. Refer to How can I use my search history? to learn more information about the...

How do I email, print, or download my search history?

You may create direct URL link(s) to the Engineering Village Quick and Expert search pages that will default to the database or combination of databases that you prefer to use.HowClick the appropriate...

How do I create direct URL links to specific Engineering Village databases?

Inspec Analytics is a feature based upon the Inspec database which helps researchers, engineers, librarians, and faculty to explore connected data and to discover patterns and trends in physics and engineering...

What are Inspec Analytics?

For a quick overview of all Engineering Village features and their locations, refer to our Quick Reference Guide.

Engineering Village Quick Reference Guide

The Engineering Village search widget allows users to run Quick search queries directly from this widget page. It contains links for users to access the Engineering Village home page as well learn more...

How do I use the Engineering Village search widget page?

The Engineering Research Profile (ERP) allows you to easily view a dashboard summarizing the research output of engineering schools and research institutions. The ERP uses SciVal's hierarchical structure...

What is the Engineering Research Profile?

In Engineering Village, there are many methods for selecting and downloading information from documents and facets for your future research. The various types of downloads have different limits.Click the...

What are the download limits?

After you perform an initial Affiliation search, two facets appear in the left pane of the Affiliation search results. These facets contain the categories for ‘City’ and ‘Country/Region.’Note: Only affiliations...

How do I refine Affiliation search results?

After you perform a Quick, Expert, or Thesaurus search query, you will see categories of information in the Document Refine results feature. These categories are called facets, and you can easily view...

How do I view and filter additional facet results?

Engineering Village made several improvements to its search engine. See below for a brief summary of these changes.Show allHide allBoolean operator searchesBoolean operators allow you to combine terms...

What are the search changes for Engineering Village?

The Quick and Expert search pages provide access to various indexes you can use in your searches. The ‘Browse indexes’ box has a list of several indexes from which to choose. The indexes that are listed...

What are Browse indexes?

Conferences are one of the most important methods for researchers to learn and exchange new ideas and to remain current with the most recent scientific developments.The Conference Series feature is a centralized...

What are Conference Series?  Beta release

The Engineering Village search engine normally considers hyphens as insignificant and treats them as spaces in regular search queries.

However, the search engine treats hyphens differently depending upon...

How do I work with hyphens in search queries?

You can work with your author search results in many ways. Author search results contain a listing of authors' profiles. These profiles contain the authors' preferred names as well as variant names they...

How can I work with Author search results?

Here, you will find easy-to-follow guides, answers to common questions, and tips to help you make the most of Engineering Village. Explore our resources to learn, troubleshoot, and get the support you need.

Related support products

Using the product

For further assistance: