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The Engineering Index (Ei). 1884+. New Jersey: Engineering Information Inc., now Elsevier Engineering Information Inc. This is the major bibliographic resource in main engineering disciplines, including:
Engineering Index is available in several media: print, CD-ROM, online, and Web-based. For example, printed Ei comes as monthly issues, annual volumes, as well as multi-year cumulations. We want to discuss Ei print first. Note that Engineering Index gives abstracts in addition to bibliographic citations to periodical literature, unlike General Science Index or Applied Science and Technology Index, ASTI. Typical Entry Example of a typical entry on the topic of air pollution is shown below: AIR POLLUTION 002828 4th International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles in the Atmosphere. The Conference materials contain 20 papers dealing with atmospheric chemistry. The topics covered include chemical characterization, physical characterization, sources and formation processes, scavenging and removal, global and regional distributions and effects. All papers are abstracted separately. English. Lodge, J.P. Jr (Ed.). Atmos Environ Part A Ger Top v 27A n 8 Jun 1993 4th International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles in the Atmosphere, Vienna, Austria, Publ by Pergamon Press Inc, Tarrytown, NY, USA, 1993 p 1167-1374.
The Engineering Index Monthly consists of worldwide abstracts to periodical articles and papers published in conference proceedings. Each monthly issue has a subject index and an author index. There is The Engineering Index Annual as well as "The Cume" which merges three years by subject access. Arrangement is by subject heading. So, in this case, it is important to have a separate thesaurus to look through first to find the terms you want to search under. Look at Ei Thesaurus (1998) which replaces the SHE (Subject Headings for Engineering) section of the 1990 Ei Vocabulary (1990 ed.). To find search terms on natural language processing, see once again Ei Thesaurus. Ei Thesaurus, Hoboken, New Jersey: Elsevier Engineering Information Inc., 1998. Suppose you want to find papers on industrial wastes. To get more terms and related ideas, you decide to use Subject Headings from Ei Thesaurus. You can look up terms and phrases alphabetically: INDUSTRIAL WASTES (451), (452), (453) -- CLASSIFICATION CODES (Used for general subject of industrial waste materials. When application is to be emphasized, use subheading --Wastes under heading for industrial application. For additional subheadings, see SEWAGE TREATMENT, WATER TREATMENT) Analysis The other display is by classification codes, such as 451, 452, and 453 451 Air pollution 452 Sewage and Industrial Wastes Treatment which lists related terms such as INDUSTRIAL WASTES. If you searched under INDUSTRIAL WASTES in subject Index of Ei, you will find abbreviated entries arranged alphabetically by title. Examples: INDUSTRIAL WASTES For more illustrations, see illustrations on cell phones and superconductivity from Ei Thesaurus (1998):
Table 2 below shows an excerpt of terms on superconductivity. Following the model in Table 1, use the right-hand column for your comments, perhaps search results.
In order to get the abstract on air pollution of cities, you need to go to the corresponding abstract volume of the Index. The abstracts are arranged numerically by abstract numbers AIR POLLUTION 002828 4th International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles in the Atmosphere. The Conference materials contain 20 papers dealing with atmospheric chemistry. The topics covered include chemical characterization, physical characterization, sources and formation processes, scavenging and removal, global and regional distributions and effects. All papers are abstracted separately. English. Lodge, J.P. Jr (Ed.). Atmos Environ Part A Ger Top v 27A n 8 Jun 1993 4th International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles in the Atmosphere, Vienna, Austria, Publ by Pergamon Press Inc, Tarrytown, NY, USA, 1993 p 1167-1374. 002832 Air pollution of cities and industrial centres. ABSTRACT body Bibliographic citation with authors' names and other details. The Engineering Index is the publisher of:
Ei COMPENDEX*Web covers journals, technical reports and hard-to-find conferences, and adds over 220,000 new abstracts each year. It closely corresponds to the printed Engineering Index. The interface is point-and-click making it easy for novice users. Searching in Compendex has been enhanced by Ei Theasurus, now available in English, German-English and Spanish-English. Another search guide is Publications In Engineering, updated annually, from tables of contents in world engineering literature. Separate CD-ROM products from the EI include:
By contrast, use the AND operator to connect different concepts or blocks of terms. Example: aircraft OR airplane OR airplanes Another search might be on plastic or plastics and resin or resins. Search example: plastic OR plastics Topics to practice your searching: Search for papers that discuss the following two topics in a major way:1)glass properties HINTS: Search for papers that appear in specific journal titles: 1. Journal of Aerosol Science If you are UCLA student or faculty, you may access Ei COMPENDEX on the Web. Here is how: 1970+ http://webspirs.silverplatter.com/cgi-bin/customers/ucla/ucla.cgi Select appropriate database time partitions (e.g., 1997- ; 1995-1996; 1993-1994). Type in search terms or phrases (e.g., natural language processing; data mining). The system echoes back the search history and formats into a search statement: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND (ENGLISH=LA) AND (PY=1998) The INDEX button displays terms and phrases for "free text fields" arranged alphabetically; for example, under data mining, you would see the following display: DATA MINING ALGORITHM Each bibliographic record can be printed, saved, e-mailed, and displayed. A record consists of title, author names, source, abstract typically written by the author, numbers, language, and publication year. The Web version has numerous HELP buttons to help you find search terms and structure search statements correctly. |
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Controlled Vocabulary Revisited Ei
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databases that are produced by the Elsevier Engineering
Information Inc. http://www.ei.org Ei is the major bibliographic resource in main engineering disciplines, including:
To find controlled search terms, say, on natural language processing, see once again Ei Thesaurus. Trail the following steps: 1. Look up the phrase NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS in the Index to Classification Codes. It shows the 723 code. Data handling, procesisng and transmission, and computerization of data systems; computational methods, mathematical logic and numerical analysis pertinent to computer programming; program languages and processors in general including algorithms, assemblers, compilers, diagnostic systems and supervisory routines; artificial intelligence; neural networks; computer networks; security of datal uses of computers in industry, research and general applications including computer vision and computerized tomography. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE |