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Scientific and technical information is the key component of effective research. In today's highly competitive world, engineers must stay on top of ever-emerging technologies. Ei Compendex (File 8) is a database you will want to search if you need comprehensive engineering information. The following overview provides details about this authoritative engineering database.
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Produced by Elsevier Engineering Information, Ei Compendex provides abstracted coverage of significant engineering and technical literature. Coverage dating back to 1884 is divided into several databases: File 8, the most comprehensive from 1884 to the present, File 278 1970 to the present; File 288 1990 to the present and File 988, a a comprehensive, historical view of engineering developments and innovations described in literature from 1884-1969. All current files are updated weekly.
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Covering 190 engineering disciplines, Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary literature database available to engineers. The database covers subjects in every engineering discipline including: chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical and mining engineering and embraces all the fields of engineering including geological, biological, electronics and control engineering, fuel, mechanical, automotive and robotics to name some. It is an indispensable tool for professionals, researchers and librarians.
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Sources in Compendex show the breadth and depth of coverage from scholarly journals like Acoustical Physics, ACS Nano, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly, Construction and Building Materials, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy and Engineering with Computers to trade journals such as Biometric Technology Today and global coverage from China with the Chinese Journal of Electronics to non-English trade literature Celulosa Y Papel.
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Compendex contains more than 10 million records from more than 6,500 scholarly journals, transactions, reports and special publications of engineering societies, scientific and technical associations, government agencies, universities, laboratories, research institutions and industrial organizations; monographs; standards; seminars and reports. In addition, more than 480,000 records of significant published proceedings of engineering and technical conferences, symposia and colloquia are included. Conferences held since 1982 are indexed in depth. Individual papers as well as conference review records are included.
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Compendex content comes from more than 55 countries in 26 languages with approximately 50% from non-US publications.
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Compendex is an important database to monitor the progress of competitors' innovations and view the competitive landscape. You can locate emerging technologies, check for prior art on your own inventions and verify the feasibility of new inventions. Use this database to find information on the activities of private, public and government research labs, institutes or think-tanks, locate state-of-the-art technology in conference literature much sooner than journal literature, as well as finding new test and evaluation techniques pioneered and practiced by U.S., Canadian and universities outside of North America.
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Journal article and conference paper titles illustrate the diversity of this database.
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This is a record from a conference proceedings. Each record contains the paper title, proceedings issuing the title, author, and contact information including the affiliate and email address, the conference title, location and publisher of the conference.
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The conference data, ISBN and article numbers are listed. The document type is given in this case a conference paper and the language. The abstract provides a summary of the paper.
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An extensive listing of index terms is given to make searching easier. Descriptors from the Compendex thesaurus, identifiers of some of the most current terms and classification codes for subject categories are listed in each record.
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As you can see, Ei Compendex provides comprehensive coverage of technical literature. Compendex is Dialog's free File of the Month in December 2010 and you can search it for free up to $100 (either DialUnits or Connect time). Output and Alerts charges are not included. Read the story on the free file in the 2010 December Chronolog and try it out in December for free! — Make sure you are signed up for the Chronolog to see all the news at Dialog including other free files each month. If you have any questions, you can also contact the Knowledge Center by phone or email at
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This completes our overview of Ei Compendex on Dialog. Thank you for your interest in this premier engineering database and put it on your list to try for free in December.