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Overview
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Mission To provide and engineers and
engineering universities with a focused, covering
12 major areas, fully crossed-indexed,
taxonomically organized, and searchable online
source. No other online engineering online
source is this robust and versatile. Markets
Primary Reference librarians managing
collection development at top engineering
universities and corporations in the
US Secondary Engineers on the faculty at US
universities who will either purchase content via
pay per view option or who might influence
library staff to purchase DEL
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McGraw-Hills Digital Engineering Library is one
of the widest and deepest repositories of
engineering content available online.

• 12 major areas of engineering
• Aerospace Engineering
• Bio Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Communications Engineering
• Construction Arch Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Engineering Math Science
• Environmental Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Materials Science Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Digital Engineering Library features over 5,000
chapters derived from 170 McGraw-Hill
publications, including such classics as -
Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical
Engineers - Perrys Chemical Engineers
Handbook - Roarks Formulas for Stress and
Strain
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• Digital Engineering Library - unique structure
  divides each of the 12 major areas into 500
  subtopics
• Enables users to pinpoint chapters for the most
  streamlined, focused research possible.

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• Clicking on a subtopic presents the user with
  all chapter within that subtopic.
• Each chapter is listed along with the author,
  the book from which it was derived, and the
  length of the chapter.
• Chapters available in PDFs

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Digital Engineering Library employs a fast and
accurate search engine that delivers results
instantaneously 1. Key word searches return
results with key word highlighted in context. 2.
Left hand navigation bar contains Search Results
by Topic enabling user to further refine
results. 3. At the end of each search result, a
link to Related chapters is presented for easy
navigation back to the taxonomy.
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• Advanced Search enables users to
• Enter keywords or phrases using Boolean operators
• 2. Refine searches with Stemming and Proximity
  parameters
• 3. Narrow searches to specific topics

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Search Dictionary queries return results from
the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering, a
world-renowned reference containing over 18,000
entries encompassing the language of
engineering. Synonyms, acronyms, abbreviations,
and a pronunciation guide are included for all
terms.
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Once the user finds a chapter, either by browsing
or by searching, the chapter is displayed with
the same page layout present in the printed book.
The rich tagging of the underlying XML allows
for intra-document linking between chapters.
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• Table of Contents for the source from which the
  chapter was derived is always a click away.
• Each chapter from within the book is hyperlinked
  allowing users to quickly survey all the relevant
  content from that source.

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• Personalization tools within the chapter enhance
  user experience.
• After creating a unique My DEL account, users
  can
• Add annotations and bookmarks to the text
• Highlight passages in up to 4 colors
• Bookmarking
• Email article to colleague
• customizable homepage

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• All of the users Annotations and Bookmarks as
  well as his or her profile is accessible from the
  My DEL screen.
• From there the user can easily link directly to
  his or her personalized content.

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• The E-mail this chapter functionality enables
  registered users to extend Read-Only usage to a
  colleague or friend.
• An email is sent from the user with a hyperlink
  directly to the chapter.
• The link is active for 48 hours.
• Once the recipient clicks on the link he or she
  has 4 hours to read that chapter.

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Headline News feature provides weekly news
chapters from Engineering News Record.
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Digital Engineering Library UNIQUE POINTS
The best selling engineering content from
McGraw-Hills deep list of chemical, mechanical,
electrical and civil engineering
references. Unique engineering taxonomy allows
users to mine book content by subject and topic
or by book title. Over 50,00 chapters
(chapters) from 170 books with more being added
in 2006 Headline News feature provides weekly
news chapters from Engineering News Record.