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Quick Start Guide Version 1.0
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Welcome to the brand new AccessEngineering!
AccessEngineering is a redesign of the premiere
online engineering resource, formerly known as
McGraw-Hill's Digital Engineering Library. The
new user focused design enhances this dynamic
online resource of world-renowned engineering
content, and will support all levels of
scientific and technical research in the
corporate, industrial, government and academic
sectors.
Focused around 14 major areas of engineering,
AccessEngineering features a new taxonomy book
view offering comprehensive coverage and faster
title-by-title access to our engineering
collection in the following subject areas /
Biomedical / Chemical / Civil / Communications /
Construction / Electrical / Energy /
Environmental / Green/Sustainable / Industrial /
Material Science / Mechanical / Nanotechnology /
Optical
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AccessEngineering offers the complete content
from an outstanding collection of McGraw-Hill
books, including the latest editions of ?
Handbook of Optics ? Marks Standard Handbook
for Mechanical Engineers ? Perrys Chemical
Engineers Handbook ? Radar Handbook ? Roarks
Formulas for Stress andStrain
New titles are added weekly.
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Search or browse AccessEngineering The simple
search
Key in search term here to Search All Content
or Search Dictionary
Search All Content searches across the complete
contents of more than 250 outstanding McGraw-Hill
books.
The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering is
embedded on all search pages and includes more
than 18,000 entries containing synonyms,
acronyms, and abbreviations a pronunciation
guide is included for each term.
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SearchingAccessEngineering The simple search
Keyword searches return results with keyword
highlighted in context.
Clicking on the highlighted page number brings
the user directly to the page that the keyword
appears on.
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SearchingAccessEngineering The advanced search
AccessEngineering features an improved advanced
search - an intuitive search platform that
ensures fast delivery of accurate and
comprehensive results, saving you time and money.
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SearchingAccessEngineering The advanced search
Enter keywords or phrases using Boolean operators.
Refine searches with Stemming and Proximity
parameters.
Narrow searches to specific topics.
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Browsing by topic Choose from 14 major areas of
engineering
Click on any of the 14 major areas of engineering
for a compete list of books.
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Clicking on a book title presents the user with a
list of the books chapters, as well as a link to
a PDF for each of the chapters in the book.
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Clicking on an individual chapter link provides
the user with the chapter exactly as it appears
in the book. The Full Text link takes you to an
XML rendered page that has hyper linking to
references in the book and enables you to add
bookmarks, annotate the page, and email a link to
a colleague (with a My AE personal account).
The PDF link opens a PDF view of the chapter for
those users who prefer working with PDFs.
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Sophisticated tools and personalization features
allow content to be easily integrated into user
workflow.
Bookmark Text users can quickly return to
content of interest at a later date.
Email to a friend email content that may
interest a colleague.
Highlighting allows users to highlight
material of particular importance in up to four
colors.
Annotate users can add their own personal
notes and comments to the text.
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My AE any time access to all of your online
Annotations and Bookmarks! You can also modify
your individual profile.
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My AE All of your Annotations and Bookmarks
as well as user profiles are accessible from
the My AE screen. From there users can easily
link directly to personalized content.
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From the Librarian Menu you can update your
profile, view subscription details, access usage
data, download the current AccessEngineering
title list, and access MARC records.
Librarian Resource Center - valuable tips and
tools for librarians.
Keep up-to-date with AccessEngineering Alerts and
the McGraw-Hill library conference schedule.
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Thank you!