Why should I trust Compendex?

Aside from Compendex's comprehensive coverage, careful source selection and enriched data, you should know that virtually every university granting engineering degrees relies on the Compendex database.

Compendex is the gold standard for covering published engineering literature and has been since 1969. Now, you can use the Compendex database in your work. Engineering Village lets you take advantage of a powerful resource used by elite engineering institutions.

What types of sources does Engineering Village cover?

Engineering Village covers over 5,000 sources of the following types:

• Peer-reviewed journals
• Trade magazines
• Conference proceedings

What publishers are covered?

Searches done on Engineering Village will return results from publications of over 1,200 publishers including:

IEEE, Wiley, Elsevier, SPIE, Kluwer, ACM, APS, ASME, AIP, IOP, MRS

How current is the information?

New records are added to Engineering Village each week and you can search for records added during the last 1, 2, 3 or 4 weekly file updates. Records begin to appear in Engineering Village soon after their original publication, allowing for processing and indexing. We are confident that you will find our records to be considerably more current than comparable sources.

How far back in time does the information cover?

Engineering Village searches records from the Compendex database dating to 1969.

What countries are covered?

Records from Compendex are sourced from over 80 countries. In addition to significant coverage of US literature, many of the documents referenced have been written by authors from China, India, Germany, Japan and Russia. Coverage of Compendex is well balanced and reflective of the global nature of engineering publication.