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Feature summary

September 2019:

  • Quick search - Free text search for a single term (keyword) or a phrase.
  • Advanced search - Offers multiple options to refine your search strategy. Tailor your search based on a set of given Inspec search fields, a range of dates, by document type, or language.
  • Search operator: " " - Quotation marks are to be used around keywords or phrases for Inspec Direct to return exact matches
  • Search operator: AND, OR, NOTBoolean operators are supported (must be entered in capitalised letters) for refining or more complex searches.
  • Search operator: * - An asterisk (*) serves as a wildcard/truncation symbol to look up variants of words.
  • Search operator: ? - The ? serves as a wildcard/truncation to replace a single character where that character may vary, for example: WOM?N to find Women or Woman.:
  • Search operator: : - The colon ( : ) operator is used for fielded searching in Inspec Direct together with specific Inspec field codes in the Quick search.
  • Highlighted search results - Keywords and phrases searched are highlighted for convenience in the search results. The exception is wildcard (truncation) search terms that are not highlighted in the search results.
  • In application help - Targeted help topics are available within the user interface for both Quick search and Advanced search. Look for the text “Show help” next to the search boxes.
  • Download results - A whole (single) page of results or all results of a search can be downloaded. The format of the downloaded file is .txt.

We’re upgrading our systems, and this includes changes to our customer and member account log in, MyIET. It’s part of our big picture plan to deliver a great experience for you and our wider engineering community.

Whilst most of our websites remain available for browsing, it will not be possible to log in to purchase products or access services from Thursday, 17 April to Wednesday, 30 April 2025. Our Member Relations team is here to help and for many of our services, including processing payments or orders, we’ll be able to support you over the phone on +44 (0)1438 765678 or email via membership@theiet.org.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

For further information related to specific products and services, please visit our FAQs webpage.

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