Searching Engineering Workbench sources

To start researching, click RESEARCH on the home page.

Use the Research page to find relevant information in the knowledge bases that are available to Engineering Workbench :

• Codes & Standards

• Accuris Sources

• Books

• Articles & Journals

• Patents & Applications

• Regulations

• My Cloud Sources

If you have a Knowledge Workspace account, along with your Engineering Workbench account, you can also find relevant information in these knowledge bases:

• Occupational Health and Safety
• Food and Drink Safety
• Irish Occupational Health and Safety
• Environmental Management
• Trading Standards Specialist
• Specify-It

Query area

The query area of the Research page includes the following fields, options, and commands:

• Query text box, where you type natural language queries, and where you can search for documents by document number.

Note: You can search by document number in the Research application. Engineering Workbench will only search for references to the document number in the document number field. The list of results that are returned for your query will be a targeted one. If you can't find what you are looking for, you can direct Engineering Workbenchto perform a more extensive search for references to the document number in other fields, like the document body. You can do this by clicking Get more extensive search results for your query.

• Search Configurations drop-down list: Engineering Workbench enables you to configure your search experiences. In the Search Configurations page of User Settings,you can select and specify the filters and sources you want to use when conducting a query and apply your configuration choices to one, or more, searches. These search configurations are displayed in the drop-down menu to the left of the query box. Default search settings like Codes & Standards and All Content are listed in this list. Select one of the search configurations from the drop-down list and it apply it to a query.

• Advanced Search tool: In the drop-down list to the left of the query box, click Advanced Search to conduct a complex query. You can use the Advanced Search tool to search by metadata such as title, author, publication date, or publication number. Results will be more reliable than they would be if you included such metadata information as keywords in the main query box. On this page, specify your filter criteria, and select the check boxes next to the document sources that you want to search. You can select one, or more, source categories to search, and you can also filter your search results to include results only from document sources to which you have a subscription.
• begins the search after you type your query and select the sources that you want to search. While you are typing your query, Engineering Workbench provides a list of suggestions and possible corrections.

• Synonyms & Ontology Suggestions. Enables you to see and select query synonyms, more general query terms, and more specific query terms for your query.

• Save Query / Set Alert. Enables you to save the current query and automatically run the query periodically.

In the query area, you can do the following:

• Type a new query

• Run a query from the list of your recent queries (Search History)

• Set a query alert

When setting a query alert, it is scheduled to run automatically at specified intervals and notify you about any new results under Recent Alerts on the home page and by email.