Engineering Village

A Step-by-Step Tutorial for using Engineering Village. Use Engineering Village to find articles and literature on all aspects of engineering

• Use
• Accessing the Database
• Searching Engineering Village 2
• Search Tips
• Using Quick Search
• Focusing Your Search
• Using Search History and Combined Searches
• Using Engineering Village 2 Thesaurus
• Using Tags and Groups
• Viewing the Records
• Marking and Saving Records
• Finding the Full-Text Article
• Setting E-mail Alerts and Saving Searches (Requires free account)

Use

• Contains both Compendex and Inspec databases
• Inspec: the leading databases in physics, computer science, information technology, and electrical engineering
• Compendex: leading database for engineering disciplines, as well as computers and robotics, covering subjects from electrical and nuclear engineering to oceanography and geophysics
• Provides over 120 years of engineering literature
• Create a free account for specialized features (e.g. email alerts and specialized searching)
• You will be prompted to log in when going to use these special features and can register for an account at that point
  

Accessing the Database

• Go to the library’s homepage (www.library.unt.edu), and click on “Electronic Resources”
• In the A-Z listing, click on the letter corresponding to the first word of your desired database. Scroll down and click on the database
• If you are off-campus, enter your EUID and password to log-on
• Note: Access to UNT guests is on-campus only
  

Searching Engineering Village 2

• Easy Search – Very basic search; only provides one search bar and no labels (ex: Author, Title etc.)
• Quick Search – Default search; searches for specific topics, authors, journals, or publishers
• Expert Search – Very advanced search; don’t use unless familiar with this method
  

Search Tips

• Use quotation marks to narrow your search; Entering two terms together in the same search bar and surrounding the terms with quotation marks will cause the two terms to automatically be searched as a phrase. For Example: “Sorption Ability” will only yield material with the phrase sorption ability as opposed to potentially unrelated terms such as “the research ability to detect the sorption of zeolite ”
• Use Boolean operators to narrow or broaden your search. Boolean operators are ‘AND’, ‘OR’, ‘NOT’.
• Use ‘AND’ between terms to narrow your search; the search will look for all terms. For Example: ‘Molecular’ AND ‘Defect’ will search for both terms.
• Use ‘OR’ between terms to broaden your search; the search will look for one term or the other.
• Use ‘NOT’ between terms to narrow your search; the search will exclude the term that comes after ‘NOT’. For Example: ‘Molecular’ NOT ‘Structure’ will only search articles with the term ‘Molecular’ that do not have the term ‘Structure’
• Use ‘SAME’ between terms to narrow your search; the search will only find articles with the terms in the same sentence. For Example: Nanotubes SAME Size will only find articles with ‘Nanotube’ and ‘Size’ together in the same sentence.
• Use truncation (*) to find alternate endings of words, such as molecul* to find molecule, molecules, and molecular
• Use synonyms, words that mean the same thing, or use similar terms if your search is not yielding results
• Try removing terms if your search is not yielding results; you may have too specific of terms

 Using Quick Search

Quick Search is the default. Enter your search terms, then click the SEARCH button

• Example 1: Using the Subject/title/abstract search, type’ Nanotube NEAR phosphor*s’ to search for records containing Nanotube in the same sentence as either phosphorus or phosphorous. Try the search with AND instead of NEAR. Notice the different in the number of records
• Example 2: Using the Publisher search, type ‘AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOC’ to see what research is being done there. This is a very specific search. You need to have the correct abbreviation. Help is available by clicking on the link “Publisher”  to the far right of the search box in the blue search box that says “Browse Indexes”
• Use the drop down menu to the right of the search box. Limit to Title to force words to appear in the title.
  

Focusing Your Search

•  Use the search options on right side of the screen to help narrow or focus your search

• Limit items include author, author affiliation, year of publication, and controlled vocabulary
  

Using Search History and Combined Searches

•  Use the Search History option to view past searches and combine those searches into one search or to break down one search into multiple searches

• Click on the “Search History” icon in the top right of the page (above the tabs for the different searches)
• You will then be shown your past searches
• To combine searches, click in the box underneath the searches (‘Combine Previous Searches’); in the search bar, type in which searches you want to combine and the desired Boolean phrase you want to apply to the searches (AND, OR, NOT). Then select the icon “Search”
• Ex: You have a total of 3 searches. You want to combine searches 1 and 3 or searches 2 and 3. You would enter in your desired combined search like this: (#1 AND #3) OR (#2 AND #3)
  

Using Engineering Village 2 Thesaurus

The thesaurus is useful for ‘Controlled Term’ and ‘Subject/Title/Abstract’ searches

• If you know what term you want to search then enter it into the Quick search bar
• If you do not know what term you want to search, then select the ‘Thesaurus’ tab in the top right of the screen
• Underneath the search bar, select ‘Browse’ then enter in your search term (ex. Quantum numbers)
• Click ‘Submit’.  The search will retrieve any terms similar in spelling to your search term
• If there is not a checkbox next to the term and the term is italicized, then it means the term is not used and you need to use a different term in place of it. To find what term is used, click on the term (Quantum numbers) and you will be shown which term to use in place of it (Quantum Theory)
• Select the term using the checkbox and the term will then be entered into the search box at the bottom of the screen
• You can repeat this process until you have your desired search, adding in as desired the Boolean terms to the right of the search box
• When finished, select ‘Search’
• You can further add to your search by clicking on the ‘Refine’ tab at the top of your search screen. This will bring you back to the Quick Search page with your term already entered as you previously specified
  

Using Tags and Groups

• This feature is useful if you do not have a specific topic in mind or want to see what the most popular topics are in the database
• Click on the ‘Tags and Groups’ tab in the header of the page
• You can then view a web cloud that shows some of the most popular tags researchers have assigned to their articles. The larger and bolder the term, the more popular it is
• To view articles with the term, click on the term and you will be redirected to a search page using that term
• You have the option to view tags according to different groups: public, private and your institution (UNT). Private tags are ones that you have assigned to different articles for your own use and UNT tags are public ones that only UNT assigned to different articles
• The groups can be changed by selecting the drop down menu ‘View” above the web cloud
• The groups can be searched for a specific term by using the ‘Search Tags’ box in the left of the screen and entering a specific term into the search box and selecting from the drop-down menu which group you want to search
• Select the ‘Search’ icon when you have finished with your specifications

 Viewing the Records

•  View article details (abstract and associated terms) by clicking on the link ‘Abstract’ underneath the article title from your search results page. To view more details about the article, click on the link ‘Detailed’ in the top left of the page.

• To return to your search, click on the link “Search Results” in the top left hand corner
  

Marking and Saving Records

• Use the Marking option to save, print and export records without having to go into each record individually
• Mark individual records by clicking in the box to the left of the record’s title and then selecting the ‘Save to Folder’ link from the header of the page in the ‘Results Manager’ box
• Mark all records on the page simultaneously by going to the ‘Results Manager’ box and selecting the link ‘Select All on Page’. This will mark all of the records on the page. Using the ‘Select Range’ option in the ‘Results Manager’ box  you can also select multiple articles by typing in the desired record numbers and clicking ‘Go’
• To view selected records, use the link “View Selections” in the ‘Results Manager’ box.

• Within the ‘Selected Records’ ‘Results Manager’ box you can to select which format (ex. Citation, Abstract, Detailed Record) to include in your output (email, print, download, save to folder).

• To delete an individual record, select the icon at the left of the record that says ‘Remove’
• To delete the entire list, select the link in the ‘Results Manager’ box that says ‘Remove All’
  

Finding the Full-Text Article

• If Full-text is not available from the database, you can search from the database to see if full-text is available elsewhere

• Click on the ‘Find Full-text’ link at the bottom of the record (in the search page) or at the bottom of the page (in the record details page)

• This will open a new window that will redirect you to another database if UNT has a full-text subscription for the article or it will redirect you to a page in the library catalog if the link cannot find a full-text subscription

• If redirected to the library catalog page, do a “Journal Title” search to in case you were mistakenly redirected and an online full-text is available and to find if UNT has a print subscription for the record

• Remember to search by the name of the Journal and NOT the name of the article

• If the journal is available online then you can follow the links to view it

• If the journal is available in print, then it will be shelved alphabetically by title

• If the journal is not available, then you can request the article through Interlibrary Loan

Setting E-mail Alerts and Saving Searches (Requires free account)

• Sends you email notifications when additional article(s) are added to the database that match the your saved search
• Go to the Search History page by clicking “Search History” in the page header (database will prompt you to sign in)
• Click on “E-mail Alert” to the right of each search you wish to receive an alert
• To save a search, click on the icon ‘Save’ to the right of the search
• To view previously saved searches, click on the link underneath the ‘Save Search’ column that says ‘View Saved Searches’