Fast-track to Innovation
Searching Scientific Databases
Eva Dimmock
Customer Relationship Manager
edimmock@iee.org.uk
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Presentation Layout
• Role of Scientific Databases – comparison
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• Inspec Database
- Content, Structure and Coverage
• Inspec on various platforms
• Value Added Fields
- Bibliographic searching (Exercises)
- Special indexing searching (Exercises)
• Support & Contact
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Electronic Resources
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• Databases
• Full Text Resources
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Electronics Journals
Electronic Books
Reports
Dissertations
• Internet Resources
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Directories (e.g. Yahoo)
Information Gateways (e.g. EEVL. BUBL)
Subject Catalogues
Usenet News
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Databases vs Web Resources
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Clearly Defined Resources
Comprehensive & Focused Search
Easy or Advanced Interfaces
Advanced Search Aids
Fast & Efficient Search
• Cost
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Databases vs Full Text
• Primary Publishers
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– Searchable full text journals
• Disadvantage: Need subscription access to each
journal – Inspec can be accessed by anyone on payas-you-go
• Disadvantage: Need to know the indexing policy and
editorial conventions of each journal – Inspec has
consistency in approach to all items
– IEEE Xplore
• Only IEEE and IEE publications, 1988 to date
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Databases - Important Features
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• Quality & Reliability
– Continuity
– Identifiable resources
• Size & Coverage
• Added-Value Search Facilities
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What is Inspec?
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• Leading Multidisciplinary Database
 Physics
 Electrical & Electronics Engineering
 Computing & Control Engineering
 Information Technology for Business
 Manufacturing & Production Engineering
• Journals, Conferences and Other Documents
• Global Coverage
• International Recognition for High Quality
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The IEE/Inspec
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• The Institution of Electrical Engineers
• Established in 1871
• Learned Society (Not-For-Profit)
• Largest Professional Engineering Society in
Europe
• 140,000 members worldwide
• Primary Publisher
(journals, books, conference proceedings)
• Secondary Publisher: Inspec
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Other Multidisciplinary Databases
• Secondary Publishers
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– Ei Compendex
• Covers all engineering disciplines but not Physics
– ISI Web of Science/Science Citation Index
• Covers general and applied science
• No conference coverage
– Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• No longer on Dialog or DataStar
• 30 databases in Inspec subject areas
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IEE/nspec
Where are we?
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Glasgow
Belfast
Dublin
INSPEC is produced
in STEVENAGE
Cardiff
London
IEE is based in
LONDON
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Inspec Database Size
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• Contains over 8 Million Records
• Nearly 8,000 records added every week
• Covers 35 years of Electronic Data
• Covers research from 140+ Countries
• Over 3,400 Journals & 3,000 Other Publications
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Record Types
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• Journal articles 73 %
• Conference proceedings 17 %
• Conference papers in Journals 8 %
• Others 2%
25 %
Journals 73%
Others includes:
• Book / Book Chapter
• Reports
• Patents (1969-76)
• Dissertations
Others 2%
Conferences 25%
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Inspec Database Subjects
Physics
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Electronics & Electrical Engineering
Computing & Control
Manufacturing &
Production Engineering
IT for Business
4.7
million
records
2.7
million
records
2.1
million
records
600,000
records
65,000
records
Figures correct as of Jan 2004
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Physics 4.7 million records
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A0 General
A1 Elementary Particles
A2 Nuclear Physics
A3 Atomic & Molecular
A4 Fundamental Physics
A5 Plasmas & Discharges
A6 Solid State, Non-electronic
A7 Solid State, Electronic
A8 Cross-disciplinary Physics
A9 Geophysics & Astronomy
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Electrical & Electronic 2.7 million
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B0
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
B7
B8
General, Maths and Materials
Circuits
Components, Electron Devices
Magnetic Devices & Materials
Optoelectronics
Electromagnetic Fields
Communications
Instruments & Applications
Power Systems
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Computing & Control 2.1 M million
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C0 General Management
C1 Systems & Control Theory
C3 Control Technology
C4 Numerical & Computer Theory
C5 Computer Hardware
C6 Computer Software
C7 Computer Applications
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Diverse Coverage
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laser printers
computer games
Long-haul lasers [buyer's guide]
A principal cognitive precondition of
successful child-computer interactions in the
information society
traffic control
Traffic signal control by Egograms
photography
Color handling in panoramic
photography
pacemakers
radar
Fully integrated automotive radar
sensor with versatile resolution
radiation effects
Paradoxical undersensing at a high
sensitivity in dual chamber
pacemakers
Modeling natural space ionizing
radiation effects on external materials
nanotechnology
Molecular motors: nature's
nanomachines
environmental science
Impact of science and technology on
energy and environmental research and
development
manufacturing
Analysis of a decentralized production-inventory
system
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World-Wide Coverage
Percent
C&S Am
Spain
Switz
Aus'lia
Neth
Sca
China
Italy
India
Can
France
Ger
UK
Jap
E-Eur
USA
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140 Countries of Author
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World-Wide Coverage
80 Countries of Publication
Percent
China
Scand
Switz
France
Japan
Ger
Neth
E-Eur
UK
USA
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Inspec Top 25 Publishers
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Academic Press
Japanese Journal Appl. Physics
ACM
Kluwer Academic Publishers
AIP
MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing
Allerton Press
Opt. Soc. America
American Geophys. Union
Plenum
APS
Science Press
Astron. Soc. Pacific
SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng.
Elsevier
Springer-Verlag
Gordon & Breech
Taylor & Francis
IEE
Univ. of Chicago Press
IEEE
Wiley
IOP Publishing
World Scientific
Inst. Electron. Inf. & Commun. Eng.
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Inspec Latest Developments
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• Rapid growth of full text linking infrastructure
• 50 to 60% or current records have DOIs
• XML file for 1969-2003
• Over 1 million of DOIs
• Corrected Data
• New E-section
• XML archival file 1898-1969
• Original and enhanced indexing
• Available for purchase or lease
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Inspec Provides (Vendors)
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CEDOCAR
DataStar
Dialog
Ebsco
EI
EINS
Fiz-Technik
Web of Knowledge
(ISI)
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KISTI
OCLC
Ovid
Proquest
Information
Questel-Orbit
ScienceDirect
SilverPlatter
STN
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Typical uses
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Scientific Research
• latest developments
• current awareness
• state of the art
• prior art
• reviews
Technological forecasting
Competitor tracking
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InspecUsers
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Universities
Corporate Organisations
Government Establishments
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Customer Support
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• Help Desk
• In-House Training Seminars
• Inspec Documentation
• Inspec Website
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Contacts
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• Help Desk:
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• Fax:
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