Academic

Librarians

Engineering Village is the definitive “go to” resource for engineering information for academia. In hundreds of colleges and universities all over the world, librarians rely on Engineering Village to deliver targeted, fast responses to research queries.

Librarians often provide students with their introduction to Engineering Village, helping to set the stage for students’ experience with the tool. Engineering Village has a vast array of tools to help teach students, including:

Tutorials and product demonstrations
Customizable training presentations
Regularly scheduled online trainings, for which students, professors and librarians can register

Engineering Village helps librarians to quickly narrow down information through the sophisticated results refinement capabilities of EV’s faceted search options. Additionally, controlled vocabulary and indexing of records according to the Ei Thesaurus ensure search results are relevant. Librarians gain confidence in knowing Engineering Village will deliver comprehensive, reliable results for search queries, every time.

Faculty

Professors throughout the world use Engineering Village to conduct research, help plan coursework, and keep on top of new information in their areas of interest. Engineering Village is the industry’s most comprehensive resource for providing historic perspective, literature searches, material for classroom discussion and much more.

Engineering Village helps faculty to:

Conduct research
Collaborate with their students
Network and/or collaborate with colleagues in other institutions
Keep up-to-date through email alerts and RSS feeds on who is publishing in key areas of interest

Students

Undergraduate and graduate students often use Engineering Village as their first resource for engineering-related queries. With Engineering Village, it’s easy to conduct literature searches, perform project research, create personal accounts for email alerts, and collaborate with classmates and professors through the tagging and grouping features.

Engineering Village helps students by:

Giving regularly scheduled online trainings, for which students can easily register
Helping students to direct their EV- and engineering-related questions to a variety of sources via the Ask An Expert tab on the Engineering Village homepage. They can ask engineers about specific topics they are researching, talk to the EV product specialist about how to search the platform, or ask their institution’s librarian about resources available to them.

Librarians

Faculty

Students

Engineering Village Helps: