This presentation provides instruction on how to use a database called "Engineering Village 2".

1. ENGINEERING VILLAGE 2
Setareh Keshmiripour
Graduate Library Assistant
Research and Instructional Services
UNT Libraries
Spring 2013

2. OVERVIEW
 Supplying engineering resources
 produced by Engineering Information (EI)
 Provide access to online information
 Provide latest information in engineering
 Consists of two major databases
 Compendex
 Inspec

3. SUBJECT COVERAGE
 Aerospace
 Agricultural
 Chemical engineering
 Civil engineering
 Electrical engineering
 Mechanical engineering

4. TYPE OF RESOURCES
 Scholarly journals
 Conference proceedings
 Trade publications
 Patents
 Government reports
 Reference books

5. QUICK SEARCH

6. EXPERT SEARCH

7. THESAURUS SEARCH

8. THESAURUS SEARCH

9. RESULTS OF THESAURUS SEARCH

10. BROWSE INDEXES

11. BROWSE

12. SEARCH TOOLS
 Boolean Operators
 AND
 OR
 NOT
 Truncation (*)
 Wildcard (?)
 Phrase Search ({ } or “ ”)
 NEAR, ONEAR

13. EXAMPLE QUERY
I need some journal articles
about automobile driver
simulator in English.

14. SEARCH STRATEGY

15. RESULTS

16. DISPLAYING RECORDS

17. REFINE RESULTS

18. SEARCH HISTORY

19. ASK AN EXPERT

20. HELP

21. Questions?