Engineering Village Day Pass is a powerful and precise research tool which provides the most authoritative and trustworthy look at scholarly publication, trade literature and conference proceeding across all areas of engineering from the Compendex database. You can be sure that when you search Compendex on Engineering Village, you are doing the most thorough search of credible engineering publication available—producing more reliable results than you will find using free internet search engines.
Engineering Village technology displays results in a way which guides you further and deeper into your topic of interest.
By displaying results which are grouped and counted along data facets, Engineering Village takes the trial and error out of your search process, so you won't reach as many dead ends. Using our technology, with every search, you will be able to determine the top companies publishing on a topic, growth of articles on a subject over time, related technologies and even look at these results by country of publication.
Buy a Day Pass for Compendex on Engineering Village and experience a more reliable, more comprehensive and more intelligent engineering search.
Engineering Village is more comprehensive than the free internet
Believe it! Engineering Village provides more comprehensive coverage of credible and authoritative engineering publication than you can find via free internet search engines, including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search. We challenge you to compare the results.
Even the best internet search engines only have access to small portions of the world’s engineering content. Tremendous volumes of information sit behind pay sites on the hidden or “deep web”. This information will not be not found and can not be returned by free internet searches. Bright Planet estimates that the deep web contains over 500 times as much information as can be found on the surface web. And this can't even take into account volumes of publication that have never been published on the internet.
Engineering Village provides more comprehensive coverage of credible and authoritative engineering Publication because it is powered by the Compendex® database.
Compendex is the authoritative database for applied engineering publication and is the broadest single source available. Compendex includes over 9 million records from more than 5,000 carefully selected peer reviewed journals, trade magazines, and conference proceedings. Compendex covers over 1200 publishers making it more comprehensive than any single publisher's website. Compendex was first produced in 1969 and includes 37 years of publication.
Compendex offers better coverage because we acquire electronic or print versions of the publications intended for coverage. We then create detailed records including abstract summaries and indexes so you can find the documents that you need. We're not restricted by what a web crawler can stumble upon. And that means you will find the most relevant and meaningful engineering results available.
Engineering Village delivers results other search engines can't
Perhaps you've already read how via the Compendex database, Engineering Village offers more comprehensive coverage of the engineering publication than other sources. But delivery of results depends on more than just our superior coverage.
Compendex records are indexed by engineers and subject specialists to identify what a document is really about. Each document is assigned a series of controlled terms which describe the subject matter of a document—including it's main focus. That means you can search for documents based on the concepts they contain in addition to the words they use.
But there's more—you can search Compendex for authors, publishers, publication dates and even document types. For example, you could decide to search only for conference proceedings.
This precision indexing allows you to deliver search results with Engineering Village that other search engines don't match.
Engineering Village advanced search technologies lead to better searching
Long lists of search results usually mean that you need to scroll through the first few records to see if your search is on target. If the first few results don't seem right, you need to think of another query and try again. Maybe what you were looking for is buried on the twelfth page of a list three million records long—most of them irrelevant.
Most search engines are driven by page popularity. Sites which are most linked to by other sites, or documents cited by many other documents are more likely to come up higher in your search results. This may be a good approach if you are looking for the most popular shopping sites or the best known paper in nanotechnology, but what if you are looking for something that isn't popular at all?
Engineering Village utilizes faceted search technology to give you a deeper look inside what makes up your result sets. Using Engineering Village's data facets, you will see counts of how frequently top authors or keywords appears in record sets. You'll be able to intelligently refine your results, allowing you to “zero-in” on the answers you are looking for without being forced to start over.
Engineering Village not only delivers search results, but using the facet counts, you can analyze the contents of your result sets. Try it yourself and see how easy searching can be.
Engineering Village reduces time spent researching
If you're using free internet search engines to look for reliable engineering information you’re wasting time. With most search engines, you will need to filter through sites not crucial to your work—broad subject websites written for novices, sites looking to sell you something, consultancy sites and sites with science you're not sure you can’t trust.
Simply by using Engineering Village, you will know that results returned are from trustworthy sources including peer-reviewed journals, reputable trade magazines and credible conferences. With the guidance of an advisory board of experts, we ensure that only trustworthy publications are selected for the Compendex database. So, by searching Engineering Village, you can spend your time analyzing the information you find instead of wading through pages of irrelevant information while questioning the reliability of your sources.
Engineering Village lets you turn engineering information into engineering intelligence
Because Compendex is the most comprehensive database covering worldwide publication on applied engineering it should be viewed as representative of the entire field. Thus Engineering Village can help you transform information into intelligence. For example; you can learn which countries, companies or universities are leading the way in nanotechnology; you can look at year over year publication trends to identify hot technologies or developing fields; you can even use Compendex on Engineering Village to identify under-developed areas of study, where real opportunities may be waiting.
Reduces risk in your work
How would you feel having learned that you’ve invested your time and thousands of dollars experimenting with a process that’s already been proven unworkable - and had already been written about? Now imagine you missed it simply because you didn't research thoroughly enough? Using Engineering Village is the easy way to reduce this type of risk. Move forward with your projects knowing you’ve used the most comprehensive source for finding published literature on applied engineering. In the end, you'll waste a lot less time and spend a whole lot less money. Can you really afford not to use Engineering Village? Get started.