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New e-resource: Ei Compendex now available via the Library website

Your engineering research begins here

Ei Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world. It provides a truly holistic and global view of peer reviewed and indexed publications with over 20 million records from 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines.

With Engineering programs expanding on both campuses and UNB researchers collaborating globally, this resource is a timely addition to UNB Libraries.

Compendex is Elsevier’s flagship engineering-focused database that provides comprehensive and trustworthy content to improve research outcomes and maximize the impact of your engineering research.

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Who is Compendex for?

The interdisciplinary scholarly and technical literature in Compendex is vast and global in scope, featuring everything from the latest cutting-edge findings to historical research and innovations. This makes it an invaluable source of information for a variety of engineering projects.

What does Compendex cover?

Comprising journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, standards, books, and recently preprints, Compendex content is sourced from thousands of publishers from around the world, including major engineering societies such as IEEE, ASME, SAE and ACM.

Compendex draws on…

  • 190 engineering disciplines

  • 89 countries

  • 2,650 publishers

  • 12 standard development organizations

To feature, actively covering…

  • 4,000+ scholarly journals

  • 200+ trade magazines

  • 10.3M+ papers from 150,000+ conference proceedings

  • 300,000+ dissertations

  • 39,000+ books, 290,000+ book chapters, 159 book series

  • 220,000+ standards records

  • 1.2M+ preprint records (all open access)

(Source: Elsevier Engineering Village)