The new Inspec Direct platform supports all levels of scientific and technical research in the corporate, industrial, government and academic sectors. It provides online access to millions of abstracts of high quality, relevant peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings and technical reports, via a secure and intuitive interface featuring state-of-the-art indexing, search features and analytical functionality.
Achieve real value withInspec Direct
Engineers and scientists are under increasing pressure to contribute
to academic advances and corporate growth and getting access to quality
information tools is fundamental for their research work. Inspec Direct
will help to fulfil your research needs so that you can:
– Avoid using the wrong research approaches
– Steer away from reinventing products that already exist
– Bring products to market more swiftly
– Outperform your competitors
– Contribute to your company’s success
Getting great value for your research requires a commitment to tools that can save you time and money. Inspec Direct can contribute to part of that success offering the definitive return on investment you seek.
Content and coverage
Inspec is the leading English-language bibliographic database which
may be used for scientific and engineering research information, current
awareness, new product information, technological forecasting, competitive
intelligence, patent-related searching and data-mining.
Subject coverage
Inspec provides a comprehensive index of literature to five main subjects:
physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control,
information technology for business, and mechanical and production
engineering. It also covers a wide range of topics including oceanography,
engineering mathematics, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology
and biomedical technology.
Access to nearly 10 million records
Over 3850 scientific and technical journals (1600 are indexed cover-to-cover)
and some 2200 conference proceedings, numerous books, reports and dissertations
are scanned each year for inclusion in Inspec Direct. It now contains
nearly 10 million bibliographic records from 1969 to date and is growing
at the rate of 600,000 records each year.
Coverage Policy
The content of the Inspec Database is quality or peer reviewed scientific
and engineering literature written in any language that falls within
the subject scope of the Database.
Subject and Specialised Indexing
A range of indexing is added to each abstract by subject specialists
to ensure that the right information is retrieved in a swift and cost
effective manner.