An announcement from McGraw-Hill Professional

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

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An announcement from McGraw-Hill Professional
January 19, 2011

We would like to inform you that McGraw-Hill Professional has 
decided to end its business relationship with the Knovel 
Corporation in the academic market. Access to McGraw-Hill content 
will be available to Knovel's academic customers that started or 
renewed subscriptions in 2010 until either the end of their 2010 
subscription or by December 31, 2011, whichever comes first.

McGraw-Hill greatly values the nearly century long relationship 
we have with the engineering community, and we take great pride 
in providing the core engineering content that engineers have 
trusted and depended on for years. The decision to remove our 
content from Knovel is based on a number of factors, including:

*Usage data: It is critically important that we receive usage 
data that will allow us to fully understand and analyze how 
customers are using McGraw-Hill content. Without an understanding 
of customer usage, we cannot optimally revise and improve our 
products for the international engineering community.

*McGraw-Hill engineering and technical content covers a wide mix 
of engineering disciplines, many of which do not map to Knovel's 
defined categories.

*McGraw-Hill engineering content is particularly relevant to many 
small and mid-size institutions, many of whom find the cost of a 
Knovel subscription prohibitive. McGraw-Hill is committed to 
providing the best value to all of the markets we serve.

Looking ahead, a planned 2011 AccessEngineering 3.0 platform 
upgrade will add additional search and multimedia 
functionalities, including enhanced versions of some of our 
leading engineering references. These enhanced versions will 
offer analytical and search solutions to meet the needs of 
students and professionals alike, and will support all levels of 
research and innovation in the academic, corporate, industrial, 
and government sectors.

Please feel free to contact Zach Bishard at 
zach_bishard@mcgraw-hill.com or 1-877-840-2297 Extension 7 - if 
you have any immediate questions. We appreciate hearing your 
feedback and look forward to working with you going forward.

We also invite you to stop by and see us at the upcoming 2011 
ACRL, ALA, ASEE, and SLA conferences.

Sincerely,

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