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Engineering Village™

Basic Searching

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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!

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About Engineering Village

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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

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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

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Quick Search

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

Select limit and search options

Enter keyword and select search field

Stuck? View search tips or context specific help

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Expert Search

Browse indexes to

locate precise terms

Define fields using search

codes

Use large term entry space for command-line query building

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Managing search results

Link to full-text on publisher site (when available)

Results Manager:- Select records - Choose display format- Save, email, print, or

download results

View results count and sort results

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Too many results?

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

• Check thesaurus – try narrower terms

• Turn autostemming off

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

• Use correct Boolean connector

• Quickly and easily refine search using facets

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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 export to a chart to

analyze trends in results

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Including & Excluding Terms From Facets

Including Terms“+” sign appears

between initial keyword and terms

included from facets

Excluding Terms“-” sign appears between initial

keyword and terms included from

facets

Select the button at the top of the results list to remove search

terms

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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!

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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 email spam

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

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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.

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RSS Feed From Engineering Village

Paste url from box on Engineering Village

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RSS delivered to your reader

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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

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Blog This

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

view.

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

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Blog a Record

Once published, the title will link to the record’s

abstract.

Give the post a title

Paste the link from Engineering Village’s “Blog This” box

Publish

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Create Groups

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

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Tag Records

• Search other users’ tags to gain new perspectives

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