ebrary Engineering eBooks

There are many challenges that engineers, scientists, researchers, executives, managers, training and information professionals confront when solving business problems with technical solutions.

What’s your challenge?

• Managing more business with reduced budgets and headcount
• Fewer staff to support research and information gathering
• Engineers, scientists, and mangers are not fully skilled
• On-demand, relevant information required to make important technical decisions
• Accessing knowledge and information on a global basis
• Navigating to internal and external knowledge and information
• Limited time to acquire the knowledge needed
• Monitoring and improving quality and currency of information
• Staying current on new developments
• Facilitating and leveraging informal learning
• Getting the right information, at the right time, to the right people, for the right price

What can ebrary do for you?

While recent studies show that end-users spend less than four minutes on most eBook sites, end-users spend more than 17.5 minutes in ebrary. Similarly, reports show that ebrary end-users spend an average of nearly 40 seconds on any given page, proving that ebrary content is being used.

ebrary’s Engineering eBook collection offers the greatest value in a pre-selected, growing subscription database from premier publshers including Elsevier, CRC Press, Pennwell Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Woodhead Publishing, Gulf Publishing, World Scientific and more.

ebrary Engineering eBook collections (~1,000 full-text eBooks as of June 2009):

• Core Engineering
• Engineering and Industrial Management
• Petroleum Engineering
• Aerospace and Defense

ebrary custom collections offer the most flexible options for acquiring eContent from leading publshers. You may pick and choose individual titles from a growing selection of nearly 100,000 eBooks for purchase, selecting an access model for each one to meet your needs and budget requirements.

You may also choose to license the ebrary platform to distribute your own PDF content online. Regardless of whether you subscribe or purchase ebrary titles, or host your own eContent, all documents delivered via the ebrary platform can be cross referenced and are full-text searchable.

What are the key benefits to you?

• Best value and usage in eBook content
• Flexibility to buy or subscribe to pre-set or custom collections
• Simultaneous, multi-user access worldwide
• Growing collections of current, relevant eBooks at no additional cost throughout the subscription term
• ebrary documents can be cross referenced, are full-text searchable, and integrate with other internal and external knowledge and information resources
• Option to use the ebrary platform to distribute your own content online
• Unlimited access to usage reports
• Hosted solution eliminates overhead and storage costs