McGraw-Hill Professional's AccessEngineering 2.0

["Mccabe, Michael" <michael_mccabe@mcgraw-hill.com>]

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McGraw-Hill Professional's AccessEngineering 2.0 Now Available

NEW YORK, NY, September 10, 2010 - McGraw-Hill is pleased to 
announce new features and enhancements to AccessEngineering: 
http://www.AccessEngineeringLibrary.com

Launched in 2009, AccessEngineering is a comprehensive collection 
of the complete contents of McGraw-Hill's industry leading 
engineering and technical books, supporting all levels of 
scientific and technical research and innovation in the academic, 
corporate, industrial, and government sectors.

AccessEngineering 2.0 features a number of customer-requested 
enhancements:

* A new user interface offering a streamlined, easy-to-navigate 
design and superior functionality.

* The addition of a new subject category: Software Engineering.

* Multimedia resources are being added to include color images, 
instructor ancillaries, PowerPoint presentations, podcasts, and 
more on selected new books.

* Articles from McGraw-Hill's Engineering News-Record (ENR) 
covering Environment, Water, Power, and Infrastructure. New 
articles will be posted weekly, and approximately 500 articles 
will be archived and available immediately.

* Full author biographies

* The complete contents of the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Science 
and Technology, offering more than 50,000 terms.

About AccessEngineering:

Launched in 2009, AccessEngineering is a comprehensive collection 
of the complete contents of McGraw-Hill's industry leading 
engineering and technical books, supporting all levels of 
scientific and technical research and innovation in the academic, 
corporate, industrial, and government sectors. AccessEngineering 
offers a broad and deep repository of fully searchable 
engineering content from industry-leading books that engineers 
have trusted and depended on for years.  Updated biweekly with 
all new content, the site delivers authoritative information that 
accelerates research, innovation, and problem-solving, while 
featuring content from a broad range of must-have McGraw-Hill 
Professional engineering publications, including the latest 
editions of classics such as Marks' Standard Handbook for 
Mechanical Engineers 
<http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid01147c&catid=K> 
, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook 
<http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid0139d8&catid=B> 
, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers 
<http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid00fa0f&pageno=1> 
, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain 
<http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/html/viewbookdetails.asp?bookid00a1fb&catid=C> 
, and many others.

"With engineering professionals and students increasingly 
pressured to work as fast and as accurately as possible, 
AccessEngineering provides an ideal platform for them to quickly 
and easily find the exact technical content they need within 
McGraw-Hill's industry-leading engineering titles," said Steve 
Chapman, publisher at McGraw-Hill Professional.

Major subject areas:

Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Communications Engineering
Construction Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Energy Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Green/Sustainable Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Material Science Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Nanotechnology Engineering
Optical Engineering
Software Engineering (NEW)

Existing AccessEngineering features include:

* Taxonomy book view that allows faster access to the entire 
collection, title by title

* Intuitive content search platform that ensures fast delivery of 
accurate and comprehensive results, saving time and money

* Constantly growing content--five new books are added to the 
collection every month

* Sophisticated personalization tools that allow content to be 
easily integrated into user workflow:

Bookmark feature enables users to quickly return to content of 
interest at a later date

Highlighting lets users mark material of particular importance

Annotation tool makes it possible for users to add their personal 
notes and comments to the text

Customizable home page can reflect an institution's name and logo

"Email to a friend" feature allows users to email content that 
may interest a colleague

* A Librarian Resource Center containing valuable tips and tools 
for librarians

Please visit www.AccessEngineeringLibrary.com 
<http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/>  for more information.

The AccessEngineering Team
McGraw-Hill Professional

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Michael McCabe
Senior Marketing Manager
McGraw-Hill Professional
michael_mccabe@mcgraw-hill.com