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Compendex is an engineering-focused knowledge database and data discovery tool that provides comprehensive and trustworthy content to improve research and learning outcomes and maximise the impact of your engineering research and teaching. It is available as a subscription. The Engineering Index (Ei) Backfile, a comprehensive, historical view of engineering developments and innovations described in literature from 1884-1969. The backfile is available as a purchase.
Standard rate applies to Compendex and EI Backfiles
This Agreement is of 5 years duration. Institutions may join the agreement at any time during the agreement period. They can choose to licence on an annual basis or a fixed 3 year or 5 year term.
Licence dates: Licences run to 7 December.
Institutions can choose:
Site licence.
For a 30 day free trial of this service please contact Chest Help
Universities, colleges and other learning, educational and research bodies in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Other organisations aligned with JISC’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. JISC will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.
This agreement continues the longstanding licence arrangements in place with Elsevier for content on the Engineering Village platform.
Owner: Elsevier BV, of Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Compendex is an engineering-focused knowledge database and data discovery tool that provides comprehensive and trustworthy content to improve research and learning outcomes and maximise the impact of your engineering research and teaching.
Sources are carefully selected, and indexed using the Engineering Index (Ei) Thesaurus to ensure discovery and retrieval of engineering focused literature
Researchers can be confident that by using Compendex, information is complete, relevant, accurate and of high quality
Download Compendex source list.
Content sources (and counting*)
Content size (and counting*)
Ei Compendex cross-disciplinary areas
Ei Compendex related areas
Compendex covers many subjects and interdisciplinary areas not easily represented in a simple pie chart. Here is a small selection of many other topics that comprise the database:
Backfile
Founded in 1884, The Engineering Index recorded virtually every major engineering innovation from around the world. The Engineering Index (Ei) Backfile provides a comprehensive, historical view of those engineering innovations from 1884-1969 with over 1.74 million records digitized from the original print indexes. Combined with Compendex, it provides the most comprehensive overview of the last 139 years of engineering literature and research
Why Ei Compendex on Engineering Village
Your engineering research begins here, with both broad and deep coverage of critical content
Comprising journals, conference proceedings, and books while also including unique sources of particular relevance to engineering such as standards, dissertations and most recently searchable pre-prints. Compendex content is sourced from thousands of publishers from around the world, including major engineering societies like IEEE, ASME, SAE, ACM, and many others. The amount of engineering-focused scholarly and technical literature in Compendex is vast and global in scope, featuring everything from the latest cutting-edge findings to historical research and innovations.
Engineering content is carefully selected, reviewed and evaluated
The content in Compendex is carefully chosen and draws from only the best sources in the field of engineering. An ongoing review and evaluation process guarantees that you always get high quality results.
Robust indexing and search capabilities make discovery easy
With advanced search tools and an engineering-specific answer set, Compendex gets you to the information you need at top speed. Sophisticated indexing leads you to faster discovery and precise, relevant answers while also ensuring you are not missing any critical information.
Thesaurus Indexing
All content is indexed in a meaningful way using Controlled Vocabulary to navigate searches and map out research territory. Discover how various concepts relate to one another: narrow down, broaden or branch out in a systematic way.
Around 150 to 175 new concepts are added each year to reflect the evolution of engineering.
Retrospective Indexing
A new capability, that is now deployed annually, has been developed to refresh the indexing in Compendex with new and amended controlled terms and classification codes. This means the new concepts we introduce each year are not only added to new content, but they are also applied retrospectively in the database to enhance discoverability. Additionally, the improvements the indexing team have made to the existing terms throughout the year are able to be applied widely across the database, to continuously improve precision and recall at scale.
Numerical Indexing
In addition, Numerical Indexing to ensure you can search and discover relevant information based on numerical values.
Apply the Refine by Physical Property function to search for one of the 62 physical properties.
Chemical Indexing
The Compendex chemical indexing identifies chemical formulas and adds the relevant Ei indexing keywords for elements, compounds and material formulas to ensure precision and maximum recall.
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| IP Address range | Yes |
| Shibboleth | Yes |
| EZProxy | Yes |
| Username / Password | Yes |
| Referring url | No |
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Federated searching |
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Harvesting |
SRW/SRU |
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Metadata standards |
Dublin Core |
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Months embargo period |
N/A |
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Digital preservation |
Lockss |
No |
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No |
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Usage statistics |
Yes |
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Accessibility |
Yes |
WCAG 2 and Section 508 Engineering Village Accessibility Statement |
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Personalisation features |
Yes |
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Service levels |
No |
The supplier confirms that throughout the term of the agreement the products will comply with the standards indicated.
New content is added weekly.
All additions and new functionality will be incorporated at no additional charge.
Information for new subscribers
Consultation, Demo and Structured Trials, Please contact:
Susan Watson
Customer Consultant
Susan.Watson@elsevier.com
Supplier: Elsevier and Engineering Village
Support will be provided by Elsevier to any user of the data at the Institution. Elsevier support can be contacted at:
Current Subscribers
Libguide is available
Engineering Research and Education information
For tailored support, please contact:
Training is included in the price given and is available either on site or via the web.
All queries should be directed to the EI Customer Support Helpdesk.
Licensor: Elsevier BV, of Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Chest Order, together with the Licence Terms and Conditions, and any exceptions listed below, create a legally binding contract between your institution, organisation or company and the Licensor. Therefore please read the terms and conditions carefully and only submit a Chest Order if its terms and conditions are acceptable to your institution, organisation or company and you have the authority to make the financial commitment shown.
The EI Compendex Agreement is not a Standard Chest Agreement. Please be sure to read the EI Compendex Licence Terms and Conditions carefully before purchasing under this agreement.
Ei Compendex
On receipt of a completed Order, Institutions will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed.
For 3 or 5 year licences in subsequent years, Institutions will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement, on 8 September 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027.
Annual licences renew automatically unless an institution opts out by giving notice on or before 8 September 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027.
3 Year licences renew automatically unless an institution opts out by giving notice on or before 8 September 2026.
There is monthly pro-rata charging for Institutions which become licensed partway through a licence year.
Ei Compendex Backfile
On receipt of a completed Order, Institutions will be invoiced for the full amount of the Backfile as a one-off perpetual purchase fee. No further charges are due unless a subscription to the front list is not maintained.
Chest is an Enterprise of Jisc. All Purchase orders must be made out to JISC Services, 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, BS1 6NB
All terms contained in a PO are expressly rejected and do not form part of the Licence or vary the Licence terms in any way.
Please send purchase orders and any other files relating to your Chest order by email to help@chest.ac.uk or by mail to Chest (a Jisc Enterprise), 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, BS1 6NB
Payments are due within thirty days of invoice date; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK statutory provisions.
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Keep a local cached copy for Educational Purposes |
Yes |
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Incorporation of parts of the Licensed Material |
Yes |
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Deposit learning and teaching objects in repositories |
Yes |
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Interlibrary loan |
Yes |
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Students |
Yes |
Yes |
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Staff |
Yes |
Yes |
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Visiting Researchers and Students |
No |
No |
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Walk-in users |
Yes |
No |
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Alumni |
No |
No |
The resources can be used for Educational Purposes – defined as:
Exclusions:
The Fee for early termination in accordance with clause 9.2 of the Terms and Conditions for the Licence is nil.
The Fee for retention rights upon termination in accordance with clause 10.1.3 of the Terms and Conditions for the Licence s is nil.
Subject to any Fee shown on the Website, the Licensee may retain an electronic copy of parts of the Licensed Material in its archives for reference only. Copies of parts of the Licensed Material already made and/or used by the Licensee or Authorised Users in accordance with clause 3.1.6.2 may be retained and used in accordance with the terms of this Licence Agreement.
Opt Out
Publisher’s discretion,
Annual licences renew automatically unless an institution opts out by giving notice on or before 8 September 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027.
Institutions may opt out of their multi-year licence at the Publisher’s discretion, by giving notice no later than 9 October annually. Such notice shall be provided by email to help@chest.ac.uk and will be passed to the supplier.
Personal licences are not available.
This agreement does not use the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources, instead it uses an adaptation of the terms and conditions agreed between Jisc and Elsevier for its Science Direct journals agreement. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact help@chest.ac.uk.
All prices are in GBP
Standard rate applies to Compendex and EI Backfiles
From 8 December to 7 December in the following year.
Payment Terms are shown on the Terms and Conditions tab.
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