KNOWLEDGE COLLECTIONS: Engineering & Technical Reference

What if your engineers could shift 30 percent of their time from researching to solving problems?

Single-point access to engineering and technical publications and relevant content

IHS Knowledge Collections™ is a comprehensive online library of authoritative engineering and technical reference content – aggregated, accessible and curated for you in one place. Providing access to the most trusted titles from the leading technical publishers, Knowledge Collections helps engineers quickly make the best decisions at each product lifecycle stage. Find technical publications from McGraw-Hill, Springer, Wiley, Industrial Press, Maney, Oxford University Press and other trusted sources. Expand your engineers’ knowledge with access to books, manuals, handbooks and more, covering topics across industry sectors and technical fields.

With Knowledge Collections, you get more than unified information access. You also can take advantage of next-generation search technology to analyze a problem for you, ask questions, and extract answers from within a large body of materials. And because Knowledge Collections is delivered on the IHS Engineering Workbench, you have access to a revolutionary knowledge platform that uniquely meets the information and decision-making needs of today’s technical enterprise. Use bookmarks and annotations to save time and preserve or share knowledge within teams or across the enterprise.

KEY BENEFITS

  • Accelerate research time by up to 30 percent

  • Solve problems faster by looking beyond your industry for answers

  • Increase engineering efficiency by reducing design cycles

  • Reduce errors and other project risks, and ensure compliance

  • Mitigate corporate knowledge loss due to workforce turnove

  • Maximize value of proprietary knowledge sources

KNOWLEDGE COLLECTIONS CAPABILITIES

  • Next-generation search technology: When you’re unsure of the questions to ask, let our technology do the work for you so that you get answers organized by categories and, within those categories, by concepts
  • Full-text search ability: If you know where to look, recover the exact document you need quickly
  • On-demand virtual subject matter expert: Ask the platform a question just as if you were sitting in a room full of experts
  • Semantic understanding: The search engine understands that when you search for “reduce” you could also mean “decrease”; therefore, you don’t have to worry about matching words to uncover answers
  • Precise answers, from reliable, comprehensive content: With one search, you can extract the answer you need from 10,000+ titles from the sources you trust, capturing and retaining subject matter expertise
  • Faceted filtering with point-and-click research: Drill down by publisher, publication date, author and more to quickly locate the content you need
  • Knowledge management and retention tools: Annotate content with project notes and expert commentary to preserve knowledge and organizational know-how from senior professionals
  • Productivity tools:
    • Dynamically create, translate, share and save summaries of source documents
    • Set up regular queries of your most interested topics to receive any updated findings
    • Link directly to the answer in the source document
    • Extract source document’s bibliographic or metadata
    • Bookmark content and pin it to your desktop

Contact us now to get a demo of engineering Workbench or for additional information.