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COMPENDEX Has A New Search Engine

by Dudee Chiang on 2021-01-03T17:55:00-08:00 in Engineering, Technology | 0 Comments

Compendex, the database for engineering and technology journal articles, meeting papers, proceedings and books, has an updated search engine as of late 2020. Detailed descriptions of the changes is documented on the Engineering Village platform web site.  If you have set up any Saved Searches or Alerts, please review those saved search strategies and statements.

Here are a few changes worth knowing:

Search for papers with at least one JPL author:

The best way is to use the Institutional ID (INSTID) within the Author Affiliation field (AF).  JPL's Institutional ID is 508092, and the search statement should be: 

508092 WN INSTID

Boolean Operator Sequence

Three Boolean operators are available: AND, OR, NOT. The precedence for the operations is NOT, AND, OR.  So a search statement (A and B or C not D) will be operated in the following sequence:

  1. c NOT d
  2. a AND b
  3. Result of 1 OR result of 2   (a AND b) OR (c NOT d)

Funding Information Fields

Funding information is searchable. If specific agency, grant number , or acronym is known, these can be searched by the specific fields. All acknowledgement text related to funding and any of the specific funding information can all be searched within the GFI field.

GAG : Grant Funding Agency/sponsor  e.g. NASA WN GAG

GFA:  Grant Funding Acronym

GFN:  Grant Funding ID number

GFI:  Funding information text  e.g. po daac WN GFI

 

Library staff are happy to provide consultation on searching Compendex or any of the databases listed on our BEACON web site.


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