Ei Compendex: A new database makes life easier for engineers

The Library is expanding its range of databases. The latest arrival, called Ei Compendex, is the world's most comprehensive engineering database, which indexes engineering literature published throughout the world. It also offers bibliographic entries for articles published in scientific journals and for conference proceedings and covers an extensive range of subjects from mechanical engineering to the environment, materials science, solid state physics and superconductivity. Moreover, it is the most relevant quality control and engineering management database. Ei Compendex contains over 4.6 million references from over 2600 journals, conference proceedings and technical reports dating from 1966 to the present. Every year, 220,000 new abstracts are added to the database which is also updated on a weekly basis. In the case of articles published in recent years, it provides an electronic link to the full texts of all major publishers.

The database also contains the full texts of Elsevier periodicals (over 250 titles in the fields of physics, mathematics, information technology and engineering), which are accessible from Compendex's bibliographic notes. The references given with the articles contain links to other publishers' electronic journals. The bibliographic database search is thus the starting point for an electronic exploration of the field of scientific communication.
Ei Compendex complements INSPEC, the leading database for physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing, control engineering and information technology. The two resources combined constitute an indispensable bibliographic research tool for the CERN community which needs to keep abreast of the latest publications in these research fields.
It was in fact the CERN reader community which helped the Library to finance access to Ei Compendex by agreeing to its restricting certain subscriptions to a single copy.
Ei Compendex is available to all CERN users without the need for registration or a password. The database is accessible on the Library's Web page:

http://library.cern.ch/information_resources/databases.html

If you would like a demonstration of Ei Compendex, you can contact the Library at: library.desk@cern.ch.