More societies and publishers add content to Knovel - including SAE and ASHRAE

Knovel, an online resource that helps engineers find reliable technical information, has announced partnerships with 16 organisations. Knovel’s comprehensive collection of content is continually updated as new titles are available and reflects the evolving needs of its users – engineers.

Knovel works with its Editorial Advisory Board, comprised of multi-disciplinary industry and academic leaders, to prioritise content additions and editorial features based upon current workflow needs and emerging industry trends. The company has partnered with more than 50 international professional societies and publishers including McGraw-Hill, Wiley and Elsevier. Joining Knovel's growing roster of content partners are SAE International, ASHRAE and 14 other societies and publishers.

Knovel offers validated engineering content, selected from trusted sources and delivered to engineers quickly and with extreme precision. The value of Knovel’s content is extended by its optimised search and data analysis tools, enabling engineers to not only easily find relevant data, but also analyse, document and incorporate it into their everyday work.

"Crash-resistant" train cars- really? Is this the cartoons come to life?

Metrolink To Use "New High-Tech, Crash-Resistant Cars."

The Los Angeles Times (12/18, Connell) reports, "Nearly five years after a deadly Metrolink train wreck in Glendale intensified debate about passenger car design," the commuter rail service in Southern California "will soon take delivery of new high-tech, crash-resistant cars," according to officials. Two of the cars, "the first of their kind in the nation, are to be unloaded from a ship in the Port of Long Beach in mid-January and will be put into service as early as next summer." They "have energy-absorbing ends designed to distribute the force of train-on-train collisions. Other features include breakaway interior tables."

OSTI gets fancy with its' database results display!

The Information Bridge has recently added word clouds to give you a window into the content of full-text research documents. The word clouds visually represent word frequency within each document and can be viewed from the search results screen or on the bibliographic citation page when hovering over the title or the PDF icon. The top 50 terms are shown alphabetically within the word cloud. Font size is determined by the frequency of usage within the document. Depending upon the term weighting, fonts can be as much as 80 percent larger than the least used terms in the document. The colors are random.

To see it in action, run a quick search. Hover over the title of one of the resulting citations to see a colorful word cloud! Groovy!

Information Bridge provides free public access to over 200,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy research report literature. Documents in Information Bridge are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format.