SAE International Partners With Knovel to Showcase Online Technical Information

WARRENDALE, Pa., Dec. 17, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To better serve its corporate and academic markets, SAE International is teaming with Knovel, an online resource that helps engineers find reliable technical information faster. Under the agreement, engineers worldwide can access SAE's mobility engineering technical texts through a Knovel subscription.

Knovel works with its Editorial Advisory Board, comprising multi-disciplinary industry and academic leaders, to prioritize content additions and editorial features based upon current workflow needs and emerging industry trends.

"This partnership with Knovel extends our reach in the engineering community and ensures that significantly more engineers will have access to the specialized content our experts regularly publish," says Kevin Jost, editorial director, Magazines & Books for SAE International. "Knovel is recognized as a trusted source of technical information, and they keep a finger on the pulse of engineers to understand the pressures they face and the resources they need."

"We constantly talk to engineers in the field to identify information that is critical to their day-to-day work and productivity," says Delores Meglio, vice president, Publisher Relations for Knovel. "With this goal in mind, we aggressively pursue relationships with publishers offering relevant content that is recognized as reliable and authoritative. We are pleased to begin this partnership with SAE International."

SAE International's online bookstore can be accessed at http://books.sae.org/.

Knovel is an online resource that helps engineers find reliable technical information faster. Knovel's reliable content, optimized search and interactive tools, help engineers solve problems faster by providing answers engineers can trust, in turn helping organizations increase the productivity of their engineering staff. Knovel has thousands of users worldwide. Customers include 70 of the Fortune 500 companies and more than 300 leading universities. Founded in 2000, Knovel is a private company headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit www.knovel.com or call (866) 303-3336.

SAE International is a global association of more than 121,000 engineers and related technical experts in the automotive, aerospace and commercial-vehicle industries. SAE International's core competencies are life-long learning and standards development. SAE International's charitable arm is the SAE Foundation, which supports many programs, including A World in Motion(R) and the Collegiate Design Series.

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