PALO ALTO, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 9, 2010 — Engineers at aerospace, aviation, and defense companies can now better design and test airplanes, satellites, and other spacecrafts at less cost and shorter development time.
ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced the availability of a new subscription database that includes a current selection of full-text e-books in Aerodynamics, Aeronautics, Astronautics, Control, Fluid Dynamics, Human Factors, Radar, Shipbuilding, Turbulence, Vibration, and other aeronautic topics. Trusted publishers such as Artech House, Cambridge University Press, CRC Press, Elsevier, and Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) have contributed to the growing collection, which may be previewed at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/aerospacetitles.
“The important work of aerospace and aviation companies affect countless aspects of people’s lives, from matters of national defense to summer vacation plans,” said Leslie Lees, Vice President of Content Development at ebrary. “We aim to help them develop better and safer aircraft faster by providing simultaneous, multi-user access to the most current titles from the best publishers, as well as powerful tools to help their engineers locate and use information quickly and efficiently.”
Aerospace, aviation and defense companies may supplement their subscription with additional databases in Core Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Engineering & Industrial Management, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Power Engineering, and more, as well as purchase individual titles from ebrary’s growing catalog of over 177,400 e-books in related subject areas. Preview ebrary’s offerings for the aerospace and defense industry at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/aerospaceindustry.
Organizations that participate in ebrary’s DASH! (Data Sharing, Fast) pilot program may also upload and integrate their own materials such as design sketches, test results, presentations, and other documents for a comprehensive, searchable knowledgebase. For more information email Email Contact.
All ebrary products feature powerful technology to help employees quickly find and use relevant information, including:
- InfoTools™, which turns every word into a portal to additional information within the corporation and on the web
- Shared and personal bookshelves for easy information management and collaboration
- Easy citation sourcing when text is copied or printed
- Highlighting and annotation within documents
- Transform text to hyperlinks for easy reference to other online sources
- Multiple options for searching and navigating
- Chapter-level search results
- Works on the iPad and other web-enabled devices
- Easy integration with corporate intranets, portals, and wikis
- No Reader required with QuickView™
Additional News from ebrary and Lunch Demonstration at SLA
In a separate press release available at http://www.ebrary.com/corp/newspdf/ebrary_Business_Complete.pdf, ebrary announced the availability of Business Complete, a new subscription e-book database covering all aspects of corporate operations that helps companies quickly and easily access the information they need to run a successful business.
ebrary will be demonstrating Aerospace, Business Complete, and other e-book databases at SLA (booth #848), June 13-15 in New Orleans, LA. Additionally, the company is conducting a focus group on its new collections and DASH! over lunch on Monday, June 14, from 12pm to 2pm at the New Orleans Marriott at the Convention Center. To RSVP, please visit http://www.ebrary.com/corp/inforequest/SLALunch.jsp.
Corporations and other organizations interested in a demonstration or trial of any ebrary product may also email Email Contact.
About ebrary ( www.ebrary.com)
ebrary helps libraries, corporations, publishers, and consumers get the most out of their digital content. The company offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 digital books, handbooks, reports, maps, journals and other valuable content from over 425 of the world’s leading publishers under flexible subscription, purchase, and usage-based models. Additionally, ebrary offers content services—DASH! (do-it-yourself), Software as a Service (SaaS) and licensed—for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content online.
All ebrary products and services can be integrated and delivered via a single easy-to-use interface that includes powerful tools for finding, discovering, and managing information. With ebrary InfoTools™, every word in the ebrary system is a network to other online resources of the customer’s choice, extending content value while increasing end-user knowledge and efficiencies.
Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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