Compendex (1969- )
Historical Compendex (1884-1968)

Database Description
Searching Chemical Symbols
Fields in This Database:
· Authors and Institutions
· Conference Information
· Titles
· Subjects
· Abstract
· Numbering and Date
· Codes

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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

AUTHORS AND INSTITUTIONS

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. D. Jones, P.D. (Ed.) 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.

EDITOR AFFILIATION (.INED.): Institution, city, state or province, and country of the first editor.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

MEETING TITLE (.MT.): Title of the conference at which the paper was given.

MEETING DATE FORMAT 1 (.M1.): Date of the conference in the format year month day. Search on just year and month, because the month may or may not be repeated, e.g., 1998 Oct 18-21, or 2000 Jul 17-Jul 19.

MEETING DATE FORMAT 2 (.M2.): Date of the conference in the format month day year. Search month "with" year, because the month may or may not be repeated, e.g., Oct 18-21 1998, or Jul 17-Jul 19 2000.

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.

TITLES

ARTICLE TITLE (.TI.): Original title of the journal article or conference paper. See also Searching Chemical Symbols.

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.

SUBJECTS

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 first 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.

Additional subject fields are defined in the Compendex database, but are intended for system use. People are unlikely to use these fields for searching:

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.

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT (.AB.): Omit stopwords when searching AB. See also Searching Chemical Symbols.

NUMBERING AND DATE

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.

CODES

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. This field was introduced in 1985, so retrieves only some, not all, records produced before that year.

Journal article
Conference article
Conference review (citation for the complete conference proceedings)
Monograph review (citation for the complete monograph)
Monograph chapter
Preprint
Research report
Unpublished paper

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.

LANGUAGE (.LA.): This database has an international scope. To search for a particular language or to limit your search to a language, use the language name spelled out.

TREATMENT (.TE.): A word or phrase that characterizes the article's or paper's treatment of the subject:

Application
Economic/Cost Data/Market Survey
General Review
Historical
Literature Review/Bibliography
Management Aspects
Theoretical
Experimental

October 2004

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