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Basic Searching

Engineering Village

Agenda

• What is Engineering Village?

• Setting up a personal account

• Searching Engineering Village

• How to use search results intelligently

• Creating RSS Feeds

• How to use Blog This!

About Engineering Village

www.engineeringvillage.com

• Engineering Village is a discovery platform where researchers can search multiple databases containing a range of reliable sources:

• Premium bibliographic databases

• Reference databases

• Patent databases

• Engineering news and more

Getting Started: Personal Account

Use Personal Account to :

• Set up e-mail and RSS alerts

• Tag Records

• Create groups

• Save records and searches

Register to create your personal account

Quick Search

Select the database(s) you’d like to search

Stuck? View search tips orContext specific help

Enter keyword and select search field

Select limit and searchoptions

Expert Search

Browse indexes to

locate precise terms

Use large term entry space for command line query building

Define fields using search

codes

Managing search results

Results Manager:

-Select records

-Choose display format

-Save, email, print, or download results

View results count and sort results

Link to full-text on publisher site (when

available)

Too Many Results?

• Limit by field, document type, treatment type, publication years, language, etc.

• Check thesaurus – try narrower terms

• Try autostemming off

• Truncate with care • Cat* cat, catalyst, catapults, caterpillar, etc.

• This is the sub-bullet format

• Level 2 sub-bullet format

• Use boolean connector

• Quickly and easily refine searches using facets

Faceted Search Results

Facets include:• Database (when

searching multiple)

• Author name

• Author affiliation

• Controlled Vocabulary

• Year

• Language

• Classification Codes

• And more

Select terms to include or exclude from search to

intelligently refine results

View record counts within facets and exports to a chart to

analyze trends in results

Including & Excluding Terms from Facets

• Including Terms

• Excluding Terms

“+” sign appearsbetween intitial

keyword and termsincluded from facets

“-” sign appearsbetween initial

keyword and termsincluded from facets

Other features

• In addition to the features reviewed today, Engineering Village offers:

• Expert searching with Boolean Operators

• Saved record folders

• Linking to OpenURL resolvers

• Linking to document delivery services

• Ask an expert

• RSS feeds

• Blog This!

RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

• What is RSS?

• An XML format for distributing content on the internet

• Also known as syndication

• Why is RSS Important?

• Content is delivered to the reader as it is updated

• Better focus on the content by avoiding distractions such as pop-up advertisements and e-mail spam

• Set up alerts so you’re notified any time a new record that fits your search criteria is added to the database

RSS (Really Simple Syndication)

Copy the link provided and paste it in your RSS

Aggregator to receive alerts

Click the RSS icon if you’d like to be updated when new records are

added that fit the search criteria.

RSS Feed From Engineering Village

Give the post a title

Paste url from box on Engineering Village

RSS delivered to your reader

Blog This

• Link from a blog to a record of interest on Engineering Village

• Create current awareness by highlighting new publications in a popular subject area

• Create a forum from which to collaborate with colleagues in your area of research

• Share information with an audience outside your organization

Blog This

Copy the code from this box in the screen that appears and paste it into your blog post.

Click the “Blog This” button in the record’s abstract or

detailed view.

Blog a Record

Once published, the title will link tothe record’s abstract.

Publish

Paste the link from the Engineering Village’s “Blog

This” Box

Give the post a title

Create Groups

• Share records with a group, your institution, or the entire Engineering Village community

Tag Records

• Search other users’ tags to gain new perspectives

• Tag records with keywords for easy retrieval or to share with other users