Search Corners and Subject Spotlights
Inspec Matters regularly includes features on how to retrieve the best results from Inspec searches. A selection of past articles, has been retained, updated with the latest methods, and is available to download.
Search Corners
Each article focuses on how to achieve the best results from a particular type of searching.
Mechanical expansion for engineering
(110 k) Updated July 2008
Inspec solves your chemical problems
(16 k) Updated January 2004
Focus on numerical data indexing
(2313 k) Updated January 2005
Inspec for patent searching
(240 k) Updated January 2004
Astronomical object indexing on the Inspec database
Author searching in the Inspec database
Chemical indexing
Dialog's RANK command
Inspec classification – searching cascaded codes
Positive feedback
Prior art searching
Treatment codes
Subject Spotlights
Each feature selects a topic of current interest and looks at some of the types of material available on that subject in Inspec and how best to find it. Since the articles are of lasting interest, they have been updated.
Inspec for health and safety
(186 k) Updated July 2008
Discover Inspec's biomedical content
(209 k) Updated January 2004
Inspec the primary source for nanotechnology
(2023 k) Updated July 2005
Transit of Venus
(73 k) Updated June 2004
Inspec hand in hand with semiconductor development
Comets and asteroids
Chemical sensors
Computer communications
Distributed systems
Energy conversion and storage
Information technology
Inspec...The final frontier. When science fiction becomes fact
Magnetism and magnetic materials
Particle accelerators
Inspec for MEMS
Making the connection
Renewable energy resources
The wireless internet
Are smart materials intelligent?