Compendex

=Compendex (Reference Search | from [|Aladin]) (GWU EMSE 216-8000)=

Index | Topics | Lectures | Course Work | Reference

TIPs:
 * "knowldege management" returned different results than knowledge management.
 * email abstracts seems to required registering and remembering the password. difficult to retreive password

Compendex is a database recommended as a search source for Engineering Management and System Engineering, Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management, and Knowledge Management.

"CompendexWeb is the electronic version of the Engineering Index and covers all areas of engineering. Articles are indexed and abstracts provided from about 2,600 journals, conferences, and reports. Articles can be limited by "treatment type" (e.g.management aspects, general review, experimental). Updated weekly."

"Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. When combined with the Engineering Index Backfile (1884-1969), Compendex covers well over 120 years of core engineering literature." - Compendex

Like ABI Inform, it is good to start by breaking the topic into apects.

Compendex shows the capability to email many file types. But from Aladin, if you access the articles through an aggregator database like Compendex or ABI Inform, you can only e-mail the abstracts. and citations.
 * NOTE:
 * Compendex has this feature, but sending Citation and Abstracts failed in two separate attempts. (With both sissonp@aol.com and psisson@gwu.edu as addresses.
 * Tried saving to a folder. Had to register 1st. Still could not email.
 * Waiting for a confirmation message from Compendex to see if that will make a difference.

Somewhat like ABI Inform classification codes, Compendex has ie controlled terms (like IEEE controled terms). Controled terms can be used like ABI Inform subject categories. Compendex also has a sort by most relevant feature.




 * Engineering Management and System Engineering || Crisis, || Disaster and || Risk Management ||  || Knowledge Management ||
 * ENGINEERING ||  || DISASTERS || RISKS ||   || KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION ||
 * more terms ||  || DISASTER PREVENTION || several more terms ||   || 5 more terms ||


 * Sources**
 * Shmuel Ben-Gad, Reference and Collection Development Librarian (EMSE Research Assistance Librarian)
 * ([|Gelman Library]) Research Guides ([|Knowledge Management]) and ([|EM & SE])
 * no Research Guide (Compendex) located
 * Compendex (2011). (Engineering Village: Compendex Database), Access February 16, 2011

Contributors: Sisson