This document provides information about Compendex and the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). It discusses that Compendex is an engineering database that indexes over 18 million records from over 5,000 sources. It is updated weekly. The document also outlines the history and objectives of ISI, which was established in 1932 as India's first statistical institute. ISI offers degree programs in statistics, mathematics, economics, and computer science and has produced many notable alumni in these fields.

1. University of Mysore
Presented By
Nagendra.N
2nd Mlisc
Department of Library and Information science,
Manasagangotri,
Mysore.

2. Nagendra N

3. Outline
• Introduction COMPENDEX and ISI
• History
• Objectives
• Academic programs
a) Degree courses
b) Admissions
c) Publications
d) Alumni
• Conclusion

4. Subject : Information System &
Services

5. Seminar Topic on
COMPENDEX AND ISI

6. Intro..
• Compendex–what is it?
Compendex is a primary database of core
literature of the engineering fields Coverage is
from 1884 till today Citations are drawn from
approximately 5,000 journals and key
conference proceedings.

7. Contd..
• It is a 1st resource for research in most
engineering disciplines.
• Is updated weekly.

8. Compendex
To get to Compendex:
• UBC Library homepage >> Databases >>
Compendex
• Don’t forget to use VPN or proxy connection-
• http://www.library.ubc.ca/home/proxyinfo/

9. View of COMPENDEX

10. Quick search In Compendex
• The default search option is “quick search”
• You can search by (drop down menus):
1. Keywords anywhere
2. Keywords in title
3. Authors
4. Much more…

11. Ei Compendex
• "Engineering Index" was renamed "Ei Compendex", and
it is now published by Elsevier, which purchased the
parent company Engineering Information in 1998. The
name "Compendex" stands for COMPuterized
Engineering inDEX.

12. Contd..
Compendex currently contains over 18 million
records as of July 28, 2015 and references over 5,000
international sources including
 journals,
 conferences and
 trade publications. Approximately 1,000,000(million)
new records are added to the database annually from
over 190 disciplines within the engineering field.
Coverage is from 1970 to the present, and is updated
weekly.

13. .Coverage of engineering subjects include
 nuclear technology
 bioengineering
 transportation
 chemical and process
engineering
 light and optical
technology
 agricultural engineering
 food technology
 computers and data
processing,
 applied physics
 electronics and communicati
ons,
 control
 civil
 mechanical
 materials
 petroleum
 aerospace and
 automotive engineering as
well as multiple subtopics
within all these and other
major engineering fields.

14. ISI
Indian Statistical Institute

15. About ISI
• The origin of the institute can be traced back to the foray in
statistics by Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. This
sparked off interest in the field among his colleagues. This
group grew in the 1920’s into the Statistical Laboratory located
in his room at the Presidency College, Kolkata. On 17th
December 1931, a meeting was called amongst the members.
It led to the establishment of the Indian Statistical Institute
(ISI) which was formally registered on 28 April 1932 as a non-
profit making learned society under the Societies Registration
Act (XXI of 1860).

16. Contd..
• In 1959, the Parliament of India enacted the Indian
Statistical Institute Act and declared it to be an institution
of national importance. The act also declared the Institute
as a deemed university and gave it the right to confer
degrees in Statistics. In response to the act, the Bachelor
of Statistics (Honours) and the Master of Statistics
programs were introduced by the Institute in the year
1960. The Indian Statistical Institute Act was amended in
1995 empowering it to grant degrees in Statistics,
Mathematics, Quantitative Economics and Computer
Science.

17. History
• ISI's origin can be traced back to the Statistical
Laboratory in Presidency College, Kolkata set up by
Mahalanobis, who worked in the Physics Department
of the college in the 1920s. During 1913–15, he did
his Tripos in Mathematics and Physics at University
of Cambridge, where he came across Biometrica, a
journal of Statistics founded by Karl Pearson. Since
1915, he taught Physics at Presidency College, but his
interest in Statistics grew under the guidance
of polymath Brajendranath Seal.

18. Contd..
• Many colleagues of Mahalanobis took an interest in Statistics
and the group grew in the Statistical Laboratory. Considering
the extensive application of Statistics in solving various
problems in real life such as analyzing multivariate
anthropometric data, applying sample surveys as a method of
data collection, analyzing meteorological data, estimating crop
yield etc., this group, particularly, Mahalanobis and his
younger colleagues S. S. Bose and H. C. Sinha felt the
necessity of forming a specialized institute to facilitate
research and learning of Statistics.

19. ISI objectives
The major objectives of the ISI are:
• to facilitate research and training of Statistics, to
indulge in development of statistical theory and in
application of statistical techniques – in the
scenarios of planning at national level and in
theoretical development of natural and social
sciences,
• to participate in the process of data collection and
analysis,
• to operate related projects in planning and
improvement of efficiency of management and
production.

20. Academic Programs
• Traditionally, ISI offers fewer programs than
most other degree granting academic
institutions. Following the empowerment for
granting degrees in the subject of Statistics as
per the ISI Act 1959, in 1960, ISI initiated
bachelor level degree program like Bachelor of
Statistics and master level degree course like
Master of Statistics, and also began awarding
research level degrees such as PhD and DSc.

21. Degree courses
ISI offers two undergraduate programs,
1. Bachelor of Statistics (Honours) (B.Stat)
2. Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours) (B. Math),
Seven graduate programs,
1. viz. Master of Statistics (M. Stat),
2. Master of Mathematics (M. Math),
3. Master of Science in Quantitative Economics (MSQE),
4. Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLIS),
5. Master of Science in Quality Management Science (MSQMS),
6. Master of Technology in Computer Science (MTech–CS) and
7. Master of Technology in Quality, Reliability and
8. Operations Research (MTech–QROR),
9. Research fellowships towards obtaining a PhD degree.

22. Admissions
• Applicants of all degree courses are required to go
through written admission tests and interviews.
• ISI conducts the written tests at various examination
centres across India. Only in few cases, candidates may
get called for the interview directly,
• applicants of M.Tech Computer Science course
having a GATE score above a threshold. Also,
candidates of research fellowship programmes having
already qualified for a fellowship from CSIR or NBHM,
can directly appear in an interview.

23. Publications
• Sankhya, the statistical journal published by ISI, was
founded in 1933, along the lines
of KarlPearson's Biometrika. Mahalanobis was the founder
editor. Each volume of Sankhya consists of four issues,
two of them are in Series A, containing articles on
i. Theoretical Statistics,
ii. Probability Theory and
iii. Stochastic Processes, whereas the other two issues form
the Series B, containing articles on Applied Statistics,
i.e.
 Applied Probability,
 Applied Stochastic Processes,
 Econometrics and Statistical Computing.

24. Alumni
• Many students and research scholars of ISI pursued a career in
academics, and have excelled in the fields of statistics,
mathematics, probability theory, computer science and
economics. Notable ones among them include
• C. R. Rao
• Anil Kumar Gain,
• Samarendra Kumar Mitra,
• S. R. S. Varadhan,
• Debabrata Basu,
• K. R. Parthasarathy,
• Jayanta Kumar Ghosh,
• Bimal K. Roy,

25. Conclusion
• I’m here Concluding that COMPENDEX is the
computerized version of the Engineering Index,. It is
an engineering bibliographic database. It
indexes scientific literature pertaining to engineering
materials and Their related disciplines and other side
ISI devoted to the research, teaching and
application of statistics, natural sciences and social
sciences. this institute gained the status of an
Institution of National Importance.

26. References
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compendex
• http://www.isical.ac.in/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Statistic
al_Institute