December 2025Engineering Village has made the following updates for December 2025:Engineering Village has released Engineering Village AI and Query BuilderEngineering Village AI is an advanced tool that...

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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?

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?

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?

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...

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What is Engineering Village AI?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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 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? (Alpha)

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?

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?

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?

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

How can I work with patent search results?

Want to make the most out of Engineering Village? Watch our video tutorials below to learn more about these features:Numeric data tutorialResults page tutorial

Engineering Village Tutorials

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

Engineering Village: Results Page tutorial

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?

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?

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?

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?

If you are signed into Engineering Village, you have the option to control your own user preferences.Note: All settings indicated on the ‘My preferences’ form are considered default settings when the user...

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

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?

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?

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

What are combined databases searches?

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?

Engineering Village: Numeric Data tutorial

Standards are published documents that establish specific requirements and are created to ensure the consistency and reliability of methods, services, and products.

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What are Standards?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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 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?

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?

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?

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?

How can I improve my numeric 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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

The Selected records page provides a place for you to collect Engineering Village documents for your research so you can email, print, download, or save them. You can view the Selected records page in...

How do I use selected records?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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.HowClick...

What are the download limits?

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?

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 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 ‘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?

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

Engineering Village Quick Reference Guide

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?

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?

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...

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