Database Description
Fields in This Database: Authors · Conference Information · Titles · Subjects · Abstract · Numbering and Date · Codes
Database Description: Ei Compendex is a comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database, the electronic equivalent of the print Engineering Index. Compendex covers the entire spectrum of engineering, in depth, with abstracts from over 5,000 international journals, conference papers and proceedings, and technical reports.
Each year, over 220,000 new abstracts are added from 175 disciplines and major specialties within these broad engineering areas:
Aerospace Engineering Engineering Geology Material Science Agriculture Engineering & Food Technology Engineering Management Mechanical Engineering Automotive Engineering Engineering Mathematics Metallurgical Engineering Bioengineering Engineering Physics Mining Engineering Chemical Engineering Environmental Engineering Nuclear Technology Civil Engineering Fuel Technology Ocean and Underwater Technology Computer and Data Processing Industrial Engineering Petroleum Engineering Control Engineering Instruments and Measurement Sound and Acoustical Technology Electrical Engineering Light and Optical Technology Transportation Electronics and Communication Engineering
Historical Compendex: The historical file provides access to engineering literature published 1884-1968. Records in this file have subject headings that are not under the control of the current Ei Thesaurus. These records do not carry ISSN or ISBN, treatment codes or classification codes. Journal sources may be identified by journal abbreviations only, if the full journal name cannot be determined.
PRODUCED BY: Engineering Information
Inc. (Ei).
DATES COVERED: From 1969.
UPDATES: Monthly.
HISTORICAL COMPENDEX: 1884-1968.
Fields in This Database
LABEL NAME EXAMPLES .AU. AUTHOR acharya.au. .EDIT. EDITOR asme and white.edit. .IN. AUTHOR AFFILIATION robotics and case.in.
AUTHOR (.AU.): AU includes both authors and editors. Names are given with surname first. Names may include first and middle initials, or names spelled out. Take these variations into account when searching for specific authors.
All words and initials are indexed. Because of the variations in which a particular name may be given, we recommend searching by surname only. In case of a common surname, include first initial followed by $:
Search Finds harkin-jones.au. Harkin-Jones, E.
Harkin-Jones, E.M.A.
Harkin-Jones, Eileen(jones p$).au. Jones, P.
Jones, P. D.
Jones, P. G.
PLUS: Penelope, Peter, Philip, P. Alan, P.L., P.S., etc.
EDITOR (.EDIT.): Names of editors only, formatted as described above for AU.
AUTHOR AFFILIATION (.IN.): Institution, city, state or province, and country of the first author.
LABEL NAME EXAMPLES .MT. MEETING TITLE (virtual reality).mt. .M1. MEETING DATE expert systems and 2007.m1. .MC. MEETING LOCATION nondestructive testing and orlando.mc. .SP. MEETING SPONSORS ASCE.sp. and 2008 .CNFC. CONFERENCE CODE 67746.cnfc.
MEETING TITLE (.MT.): Title of the conference at which the paper was given.
MEETING DATE (.M1.): Date of the conference in the format YYYY/MM/DD.
MEETING LOCATION (.MC.): City, state or province, and country of meeting location.
MEETING SPONSORS (.SP.): Names of sponsoring organizations, with ANSI abbreviations.
CONFERENCE CODE (.CNFC.): A 5-digit code assigned to a conference. All papers from a conference have the same code.
LABEL NAME EXAMPLES .TI. ARTICLE TITLE (photonic integrated beamformer).ti. .TT. TRANSLATED TITLE (tensile stress and concrete).tt. .JN. JOURNAL TITLE (biomedical optics).jn. .JC. ABBREVIATED JOURNAL TITLE (j biomed opt).jc. .BKTI. BOOK TITLE (solid fuel conversion).bkti. .PU. PUBLISHER hermes spectrometer and elsevier.pu.
ARTICLE TITLE (.TI.): Original title of the journal article or conference paper.
TRANSLATED TITLE (.TT.): For papers published in other languages, TT contains the title translated into English.
JOURNAL TITLE (.JN.): Journal title spelled out in full.
ABBREVIATED JOURNAL TITLE (.JC.): Journal title with ANSI standard abbreviations.
BOOK TITLE (.BKTI.): Title of published monograph, including unique title under which a particular conference proceeding is published.
PUBLISHER (.PU.): Publisher, city, state or province, and country of publication.
LABEL NAME EXAMPLES .SU. SUBJECTS electropolymerization.su. .MAJ. MAJOR SUBJECT clouds.maj. .ID. IDENTIFIERS (incoherent light).id.
SUBJECTS (.SU.): Subject headings, or index terms, assigned from the Ei Thesaurus. Using SU, you may search either complete subject phrases or individual subject words. SU encompasses both major and secondary index terms. The major subject, or main index term, describes the most important topic or central focus of the article or paper. Other subjects, or secondary index terms, describe concepts addressed in the article or paper, but not a primary or central focus.
MAJOR SUBJECT (.MAJ.): The main index term assigned to the article or paper. Using MAJ, you may search either complete subject phrases or individual subject words, to retrieve only records in which this is a major subject. The last subject heading that displays in each record is the major subject assigned to that article or paper.
IDENTIFIERS (.ID.): Non-controlled vocabulary, or free-language descriptors, used to the describe the content of the article or paper. Terms in this field are not taken from the Ei Thesaurus.
SUBJECT THESAURUS (.SUT.): This field is defined for system use when retrieving subjects through the thesaurus.
MAJOR SUBJECT THESAURUS (.MAJT.): This field is defined for system use when retrieving records through "focus" in the thesaurus.
LABEL NAME EXAMPLES .AB. ABSTRACT (air pollution and tunnels).ab.
ABSTRACT (.AB.): Omit stopwords when searching AB.
LABEL NAME EXAMPLES .YR. YEAR optical metallography and 2007.yr. .MO. MONTH plasticity.jn. and 2008.yr. and august.mo. .VO. VOLUME aes.jn. and 56.vo. .NO. NUMBER ergonomics.jn. and 51.vo. and 5.no. .PG. PAGINATION mcnally and 2002 and 275$.pg. .PA. PAPER NUMBER (spe 50378).pa.
YEAR (.YR.): Year of publication of the article, paper, or book.
MONTH (.MO.): Month or season (and day, if applicable) of publication of the article or paper. The month may be spelled out or abbreviated (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec).
VOLUME (.VO.): Volume of the journal in which the article appeared.
NUMBER (.NO.): Number of the issue in which the article appeared.
PAGINATION (.PG.): If you remember the starting page of an article but not the full citation, searching with PG might be useful. Enter the starting page and the truncation symbol $.
PAPER NUMBER (.PA.): Paper number of preprints and some conference papers.
LABEL NAME EXAMPLES .AN. ACCESSION NUMBER 20082411306218.an. .AT. PUBLICATION TYPE optoelectronic switches and conference.at. .CC. CLASSIFICATION CODE 401.2.cc. .CDN. CODEN jbenf.cdn. .IS. ISSN 1084-0702.is. .ISBN. ISBN 0872628647.isbn. .TE. TREATMENT electric utilities and cost.te.
ACCESSION NUMBER (.AN.): Record control number assigned by database producer; unique to each record in the database. Searching by AN is a method for returning directly to a record that you have retrieved previously.
PUBLICATION TYPE (.AT.): A phrase describing the type of material.
Journal article
Book
Conference article
Report
CLASSIFICATION CODE (.CC.): Classification codes from the Ei classification system.
ISSN (.IS.): The International Standard Serial Number of the journal.
ISBN (.ISBN.): The International Standard Book Number of the book.
TREATMENT (.TE.): A word or phrase that characterizes the article's or paper's treatment of the subject:
Applications
Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey
General Review
Historical
Literature Review/Bibliography
Management Aspects
Theoretical
Experimental
July 2008
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