Helpful Hints & Tips on Using Knovel
About Knovel
We at Knovel have aggregated a comprehensive collection of scientific and engineering references to provide answers - quickly, every day - to technical professionals around the world via the Internet. www.knovel.com has the most popular and necessary scientific and engineering titles including:
- Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook (McGraw-Hill)
- Chemical Properties Handbook (McGraw-Hill)
- Lange’s Handbook of Chemistry (McGraw-Hill)
- Chemical Resistance of Plastics and Elastomers (Plastics Design Library)
- Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers (McGraw-Hill)
- ANTEC Proceedings (Society of Plastics Engineers)
- DOSE (Dictionary of Substances and their Effects) – (Royal Society of Chemistry) – seven volume collection
The aggregated content forms the foundation of www.knovel.com, but without the means to quickly get to the relevant information it would just be another library. Knovel has developed a sophisticated search engine that brings a researcher immediately to what they need to see - using text, data, text and data, or data ranges, with all results normalized and ranked and everything oriented to keep the researcher focused and on track. In a recent usability study our tools were found to increase research efficiency by 50% to 75% - www.knovel.com gets better results in less time.
Engineers and scientists live in a world of data. In order to satisfy their real need to use and manipulate the data in the actual tables in our books, many of our tables are Interactive Deeply Searchable (IDS). Imbedded right in the .PDF document and identified by a red box, an IDS Table is "LIVE", with the look and feel of a spreadsheet, enabling the researcher to sort columns, cut and paste, or create custom tables with only those compounds of specific interest at that moment to solve a particular problem. www.knovel.com also features Interactive Deeply Searchable (IDS) Graphs and Interactive Deeply Searchable (IDS) Equations with Plots, giving the researcher numbers: real ‘x’ and ‘y’ values to go with the graphics.