What is an Inspec record?
The Inspec database comprises nearly ten million records taken from scientific and technical literature published around the globe. Each record contains enough information to enable searchers to pin-point the content that they need for their research.
Record fields
Each record in Inspec contains an English-language title and a descriptive abstract together with full bibliographic details. These include the author's name and affiliation and the publication title.
To supplement natural-language searching, Inspec provides an extensive range of search elements:
- Classification codes from the Inspec Classification
- Controlled index terms from the Inspec Thesaurus
- Numerical data indexing
- Chemical substance indexing
- Astronomical object indexing
- Free language 'keywords' pinpointing significant concepts
- Treatment codes which indicate the author's approach to the subject
- Language of the original document
