Letter from the Editor

Dear Readers,

Ei has been busy since last autumn and through the end of 2005 developing and launching a new product, Ei Patents on Engineering Village 2. This new subscription based product greatly enhances the engineering and technical information available through the Engineering Village 2 interface. Ei Patents provides a cost effective way for institutions that are serious about patenting and research to stay competitive in R&D fields. By searching patent information, researchers have access to 80% more technical information that is not available in traditional bibliographic databases.

For more information about Ei Patents, please be sure to read our article in the What’s New section of the newsletter where we outline the key features of the product and take a more in-depth look at the functionality. Also in What’s New, we discuss the new facet categories that have been added to Engineering Village 2’s result pages, we cover the new indexing of the Inspec database, and the improvement of the De-duplication functionality. Finally in this section, we highlight the new Training Center that has recently been added to the www.ei.org website.

Next, in Librarian’s Corner, Gali Halevi looks back on her time in an R&D company and discusses her complex work process involving patents research. Gali contemplates how conducting comprehensive technology and patent searches for the staff engineers would have been simplified if her company subscribed to a search tool like Ei Patents.

In News & Events, we highlight the work of our customer-led Compendex Scope & Coverage Committee. This group of 17 subject librarians and industry experts help Ei shape the content of the Compendex database and work throughout the year to make recommendations to our editors on the most relevant serial titles they believe should be included in Compendex. We also look at how their work process has been enhanced by blogging and we share a list of the recommended titles for inclusion in 2006.

Also in News & Events, check out the training sessions and register online to get an in depth look at the new Ei Patents product. Finally, read about Engineering Village 2 being chosen as a CODiE Award finalist for 2006 and link to our press release.

As always, I welcome any feedback about the content of the newsletter. If there is a particular issue or topic you wish to see covered, please feel free to send me an email!

Warm regards,

Susan Lo
Marketing Manager
s.lo@elsevier.com

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