Briefing for Journal Editors and Authors Regarding Selection Criteria for Inclusion in Ei Compendex®
The purpose of this document is to help editors and publishers of primary literature and authors of papers submitted for publication to become familiar with the way Engineering Information is representing the content and descriptive information for these papers in database records. If you know the rules, you can write good abstract and have your article retrieved by an online search. This is important because it allows other scientists and engineers around the world to discover your work and to encourage cooperation among scientists.
Overview of Ei and Compendex
Engineering Index was founded in 1884 as the first United States literature abstracting and indexing service for the purpose of providing access to and awareness of the world’s engineering literature. We went online in 1970 with Dialog and Orbit. In 1995 we introduced the Ei Engineering Village, one of the first database web applications in the world, and through the Village, the Compendex Database.
The Compendex database currently contains over 7 million abstracts and is growing at the rate of about a quarter of a million records each year.
Over 5,000 journals and conference proceedings are reviewed for coverage in Compendex.
Ei currently covers close to 300 journals published in China.
Our extensive coverage of the Chinese engineering literature began in the early 1990s, when we established an editorial office in Beijing, headed by Lu Ping. All Chinese journals are sent to her for processing locally in China.
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