{"id":72,"date":"2021-05-14T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/?p=72"},"modified":"2021-04-30T13:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T13:13:36","slug":"dissertation-festival-blog-engineering-village-resources-for-dissertations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/asl\/2021\/05\/14\/dissertation-festival-blog-engineering-village-resources-for-dissertations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertation Festival Blog: Engineering Village resources for dissertations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Introduction<\/h1>\n

The day has finally arrived, the end of my Dissertation Festival Blog series. To recap, the Library\u2019s Dissertation Festival<\/a> is a collaborative effort from the Library, Digital Skills department and Institute of Academic Development (IAD). They united to host a series of virtual sessions spanning over two weeks to provide students with the knowledge and resources required to make the most out of their dissertations. The Festival is a fantastic opportunity to learn tips and tricks to help you write, reference and uncover what support is available to you at the University. In this blog series, I review sessions I have attended and share my thoughts.<\/p>\n

The Session<\/h1>\n

For my final event, I went subject-specific, as I attended \u201cEngineering Village resources for dissertations\u201d hosted by a staff member from Elsevier. \u00a0The session began with an explanation of Engineering Village and how it can help with your dissertation. To summarise, Engineering Village is a powerful search platform that provides access to multiple engineering literature databases. These reliable sources range from journals to conference proceedings and trade publications to press articles. It is essentially a one-stop-shop for all things engineering literature. If you are confused about how you could have missed such a powerful platform, don\u2019t worry – you may already be aware of some of the databases found within Engineering Village; these include Knovel, Compendex and Inspec!<\/p>\n

During the session, short tutorials of Knovel, Compendex and Inspec were given with their key features highlighted. I found Knovel to be most interesting as the database provides you with the opportunity to search materials\u2019 properties, pulling this numeric data from handbooks, manuals, and databanks so you can access what you need quickly. It also allows you to search for equations and contains tools such as a unit converter and interactive graphs to aid your research.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot from Knovel website taken to illustrate the Material Property Search feature<\/p><\/div>\n

Both Compendex and Inspec are comprehensive bibliographic databases of engineering research covering engineering and applied sciences. Compendex is more holistic and is the broadest, most complete engineering database in the world. On the other hand, Inspec provides engineering research information on physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control, production engineering, information technology, and more. Using Engineering Village, you can search both databases simultaneously, ensuring you are getting the most relevant and up to date information.<\/p>\n

Thoughts and Conclusion<\/h1>\n

The session was highly informative and helped me understand how to use the unique search features and specialised Engineering Village tools to improve my research productivity. \u00a0I believe Engineering Village is a resource relevant to all STEM students or students whose work requires reliable scientific data. For dissertation use, the database can have a range of applications, so it is well worth further inspection. You can directly access Knovel, Compendex and Inspec from the University Library Databases<\/a> page!<\/p>\n

Thank you for reading this blog, and I hope you enjoyed it. Unfortunately, a recorded version of the session is not available, so you have to wait until the next Dissertation Festival to see the event live! However, you can access other Dissertation Festival recordings from a dedicated playlist HERE<\/a> and read previous blogs in the series HERE<\/a> and HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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