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General engineering sources include two major engineering periodical indexes. Engineering Index (since 1884) along with its derivatives, is produced by Elsevier Engineering Information (EEI). It covers all engineering specialties. INSPEC consists of Physics Abstracts (Series A), Electrical and Electronics Abstracts (Series B), Computer and Control Abstracts (Series C), and Information Technology (Series D). Another scholarly database is Current Contents; all three sources are briefly described in this section and later elaborated under separate headings. The Engineering Index. 1884+. 1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, New Jersey, Engineering Information Inc., now Elsevier Engineering Information Inc. To see a context where Ei fit in, visit the ATEIS-Articles visual. For more detail, go to Engineering Index. This is the major bibliographic resource in main engineering disciplines, including:
Engineering Index is available in several media: print (monthly and annual), CD-ROM, online, and Web-based. The database lists over 5,800 serial publications (e.g., journals, conferences, and report series). All are covered in Ei Page One. Of these, nearly 3,000 are considered core to engineering and are indexed and abstracted completely. Nearly 900 multidisciplinary, scientific and trade journals are covered selectively. Available on CD-ROM include the following engineering specialty discs: Ei CivilDisc(tm) Ei EEDisc(tm) Ei Energy & Environment(tm) Ei Manufacturing(tm) Ei MechDisc(tm) Engineering Conferences & Reports INSPEC is published by The Institution of Electrical Engineers, founded in 1871 as one of the largest engineering societies with its international membership of over 130,000 professionals in all areas of engineering. IEE is one of the major publishers of engineering information sources, including INSPEC. It is available in hard copy, on CD-ROM, online via commercial vendors, and library portals such as Melvyl®. The three major components of Inspec are the following four subfiles: PHYSICS ABSTRACTS series A: 1898 to present ELECTRICAL and ELECTRONICS Abstracts series B: 1898 to present CCOMPUTER and CONTROL Abstracts series C: 1966 to present INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY series D: 1989 to present Thus, unless instructed differently, when you search Inspec, you are automatically searching all four abstracting services. For details, go to INSPEC. Finding current scholarly journal articles Many engineering fields are well researched and interdisciplinary in nature; for materials sciences, aerospace, environmental, and other engineering areas, a good database is CURRENT CONTENTS which is available via Web based Melvyl®, its telnet version, or other portals on the subscription basis. Its welcome page gives basic information about its size, currency, and scope: Welcome to the MELVYL CURRENT CONTENTS Article Database Contents: As of 02/14/01, the database contains 10,417,566 citations from over 6500 journals indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information since July 1989; the database is updated weekly. Major areas covered: Engineering/Technology/Applied
Sciences Social/Behavioral Sciences Physical/Chemical/Earth Sciences Arts/Humanities Agriculture/Biology/Environmental
Sciences Clinical Medicine; Life Sciences
The following is a search template that you can use in your searching the CC database. Here is how: Using the Web-based interface, type in title word(s): glass (title words) produces 21634 items (as of 2/9/01) If you are accessing Melvyl via the telnet, use the command mode; the following script may be useful: vt100 (and switch to the Current Contents database); type in: At the CC-> prompt, instruct the computer to find information about glass. Use the FIND command and TITLE WORD followed by the search word: cc->f tw glass To narrow down your search, you have decided to limit to a known researcher on glass. Each instruction has three parts as follows: COMMAND+INDEX+SEARCH WORDS Example #1: Research on glass (by Prof. Mackenzie at UCLA) CC-> f tw glass (Search result: over 21,634 citations in the CC article database)
Example #2: Publications on behavior in solid waste ash by a known researcher CC-> f tw municipal solid waste ash (66 citations in the CC article database)
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