New ASCE Library Platform Unlocks Content

["Nara, William" <wnara@asce.org>]

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NEXT-GENERATION ASCE LIBRARY PLATFORM DELIVERS SUPERIOR 
FUNCTIONALITY

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) announces the 
launch of the new ASCE Library on the Scitation C3 platform. A 
cleaner design, improved search capabilities, and new features -- 
such as full-text HTML -- allow you to work interactively with 
the content and reduce time spent locating relevant civil 
engineering information.

With more than 80,000 journal and proceedings articles in the 
digital archive, ASCE Library is the largest collection of 
peer-reviewed civil engineering content. http://ascelibrary.org

NEW FEATURES:

* HTML FULL-TEXT rendering lifts the article off the page with 
'zoom on' figures and tables, inline reference links, inline 
searches, and paragraph-level bookmarking and commenting. Test 
drive the inline search feature by selecting "Read Online HTML" 
for any sample article at 
http://ascelibrary.org/pso/resource/1/jpsea2/v1/i1. Simply 
highlight any term or phrase within the HTML article to produce a 
list of related content. Full-text HTML is available for all 
journal articles from 2005 to the present.

* FULLY-LINKED PDFs allow you to click on a reference, figure, 
table, or equation citation in the text to be taken to the 
relevant item in the PDF. Most journal references will also be 
linked allowing readers to jump right to a cited article. 
Fully-linked PDFs are available for all journal articles from 
March 2011 and on.

* ADVANCED SEARCH INTERFACE delivers improved discoverability 
with more options and better controls to explore returned content 
with faceted results. Explore the new faceted-search at 
http://ascelibrary.org/search.

* KEYWORD CLOUD enables you to see the "most popular subjects" or 
most prolific authors at a glance with a single click.

* CLICK ON TABS for actionable abstract, article outline, figures 
and tables, and reference citations.

* LIBRARY BRANDING is available to better inform patrons about 
the services you provide. ASCE Library abstract pages are now 
able to display a message informing users that their access is 
provided via their library's subscription. Once a user is 
IP-authenticated, each abstract view will display a small banner 
stating, "Your access to Journal of Structural Engineering [e.g.] 
is provided by the subscription of [institution]." To activate 
your library's branding message, please contact wnara@asce.org.

ASCE Library (http://ascelibrary.org) contains 33 ASCE Journals 
(1983 to the present), and more than 260 ASCE conference 
proceedings (2000 to the present).

We hope that you and your patrons will find these enhancements to 
be a benefit. As always, we welcome your feedback.

Kind regards,

William Nara
Marketing Manager, ASCE Publications

American Society of Civil Engineers
1801 Alexander Bell Drive
Reston, VA 20191  USA

http://www.asce.org
http://ascelibrary.org

Founded in 1852, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 
represents more than 140,000 civil engineers worldwide and is 
America's oldest national engineering society. For more 
information, visit www.asce.org.