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Target Audience: Open to staff and students. The session will most benefit Science & Engineering students from UG 3rd year (doing project work) onwards
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Learn how these databases can help you in your research.
A live demo session with Q&A.
Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world. Inspec is a leading bibliographic information database covering the fields of physics, electronics, computing, control engineering and information technology. All three databases are available via the Engineering Village database platform. GEOBASE is a multidisciplinary database for the earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, physical geography, and oceanography. This session will cover:
- An overview of Compendex, Inspec and GEOBASE.
- Database features such as the thesaurus and autostemming
- More specialists aspects such as Engineering Research Profile and Inspec Analytics with the opportunity to join a separate session.
This session will last one hour – 45 mins demo with 15 minutes for Q&A.
Delivered By: Susan Watson, Customer Consultant -Engineering & Geosciences, Elsevier