Ei Compendex is an
engineering bibliographic database published by
Elsevier.
The name "Compendex" stands for COMPuterized ENgineering inDEX.
It covers
scientific literature pertaining to engineering materials.
It started in 1884 under the name ''Engineering Index'' (Ei) and its first electronic bulletin was issued in 1967.
[
Elsevier purchased the parent company Engineering Information in 1998.][ Hane, Paula J]
Elsevier Science Acquires Engineering Information
Information Today, Inc. 06 February 1998
Coverage
Ei Compendex currently contains over 20 million records as of December 2020 and references over 5,000 international sources including journals, conferences and trade publications. Approximately 1,000,000 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.File summary
STN. FIZ Karlsruhe. Accessed June 16 2014.
Coverage of engineering subjects include
nuclear technology
Nuclear technology is technology that involves the nuclear reactions of atomic nuclei. Among the notable nuclear technologies are nuclear reactors, nuclear medicine and nuclear weapons. It is also used, among other things, in smoke detectors an ...
,
bioengineering
Biological engineering or
bioengineering is the application of principles of biology and the tools of engineering to create usable, tangible, economically-viable products. Biological engineering employs knowledge and expertise from a number o ...
,
transportation,
chemical and process engineering, light and optical technology,
agricultural engineering and
food technology
Food technology is a branch of food science that deals with the production, preservation, quality control and research and development of the food products.
Early scientific research into food technology concentrated on food preservation. Nic ...
,
computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to Execution (computing), carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as C ...
s and
data processing
Data processing is the collection and manipulation of digital data to produce meaningful information.
Data processing is a form of ''information processing'', which is the modification (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an ...
,
applied physics,
electronics and
communications, control,
civil
Civil may refer to:
*Civic virtue, or civility
*Civil action, or lawsuit
* Civil affairs
*Civil and political rights
*Civil disobedience
*Civil engineering
*Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism
*Civilian, someone not a membe ...
,
mechanical,
materials,
petroleum,
aerospace and
automotive engineering
Automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and naval architecture, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software, and safety engineering as applied to the design, manufactu ...
as well as multiple subtopics within all these and other major
engineering fields.
See also
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List of academic databases and search engines
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and ...
References
External links
Compendex and EI backfileCompendex on STNSTN Compendex file summary. PDF download. January 2014
Ei and Compendex History
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Bibliographic databases in engineering
Online databases