Dialog Continues to Expand Engineering Offering
Archival Data from Engineering
Information Extends Coverage of Ei Compendex®
Back to 1884
Cary, NC USA, and London UK (January 10, 2007)
Dialog, a Thomson business, today announced that
it has added the Engineering Index Backfile to the
Dialog platform. The new archival backfile from Engineering
Information adds more than 1.7 million records back
to 1884, giving researchers the ability to find information
about engineering innovations over the last 120 years.
The archival backfile is available as part of the
Ei Compendex (File 8 on Dialog) database, which now
contains data from 1884 to the present, and as a
separate database (File 988), which contains just
the historical data from 1884 to 1969.
"The addition of the Engineering Index Backfile
provides Dialog customers with the superior collection
of physical science engineering content, and it will
have a marked effect on the speed at which research
is done," said Viji Krishnan, Dialog vice president
of publisher management. "As new fields of
study such as nanotechnology take off, researchers
will benefit greatly from the science and engineering
work from the past."
Using the Engineering Index Backfile, searchers
can find references to some of the most important
innovations of the late 19th and the majority of
the 20th century, including references to:
- The Wright brothers' first plane flight
- Construction of the Hoover Dam
- Development and history of semiconductors
- Evolution of Microscopy
- Building of the Brooklyn bridge
- Progress of the space race to the moon
- Early development of the New York subway
The Engineering Index Backfile is the most recent
major addition to Dialog's engineering content
collection. The following are some of the other engineering
offerings Dialog has recently made available.
- Inspec® Archival Backfile — The
entire collection of Science Abstracts Journals
(back to volume one) dating from 1898 to 1968 is
now available on Dialog as a stand-alone database
(File 202) or part of the Inspec database (File
2), covering 1898 to date. Inspec covers all aspects
of physics, electrical and electronic engineering,
and computing and control engineering.
- CSA scientific and technical content — covering
engineering, materials research and high tech research,
including:
- CSA Technology Research
Database (File 23) — provides
a wealth of topics ranging from Aeronautics and
Astronautics to civil, earthquake, transportation
and environmental engineering to electronics
to meteorology, climatology and oceanography,
as well as metallurgy and more.
- CSA Aerospace and High
Technology Database (File 108) — provides coverage of basic
and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics
and space sciences in over 40 countries including
Japan and eastern European nations.
- METADEX (File 32) — the premier database of
research covering metals and alloys, including
their properties, manufacturing, applications
and new product development.
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