Knovel

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Knovel Corporation
subsidiary
Industry Publishing, online publishing, and new media
Founded Norwich, New York, United States (2000)
Headquarters New York City, United States
Number of employees
 Approx. 100 (2011)
Parent Elsevier
Website www.elsevier.com/solutions/knovel-engineering-information

Knovel, headquartered in New York City, was founded in 2001 and was a private company until it was acquired by Elsevier in 2013. The company provides an online library focused on engineering topics. According to Knovel, their customers include more than 700 customers worldwide including 74 Fortune 500 companies [1] and more than 400 universities. [2]

Elsevier commercial academic publishing company that publishes medical and scientific literature

Elsevier is a Dutch information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information. It was established in 1880 as a publishing company. It is a part of the RELX Group, known until 2015 as Reed Elsevier. Its products include journals such as The Lancet and Cell, the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, the Trends and Current Opinion series of journals, the online citation database Scopus, and the ClinicalKey solution for clinicians. Elsevier's products and services include the entire academic research lifecycle, including software and data-management, instruction and assessment tools.

Product

Knovel’s offerings include three key elements – validated content, optimized search, and data analysis tools. The library is focused on the engineering community, offering more than 35 subject areas featuring guidance and best practice information on a wide range of topics including material selection and tolerances, environmental impacts, safety and compliance. The library content includes more than 7,000 reference works and databases from more than 120 leading technical publishers [3] and professional societies such as AIAA, AIChE and ASME. Users can find data hidden in tables, graphs, and equations, and they can execute numeric range and multi-variable searches. Knovel’s content includes more than 120,000 interactive tables, equation plotters, charts and graphs that can be manipulated and exported into other tools such as Excel or PTC’s Mathcad.

Engineering applied science

Engineering is the application of knowledge in the form of science, mathematics, and empirical evidence, to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, software, devices, systems, processes, and organizations. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. See glossary of engineering.

ASME professional association

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing education, training and professional development, codes and standards, research, conferences and publications, government relations, and other forms of outreach." ASME is thus an engineering society, a standards organization, a research and development organization, an advocacy organization, a provider of training and education, and a nonprofit organization. Founded as an engineering society focused on mechanical engineering in North America, ASME is today multidisciplinary and global.

Mathcad computer algebra system

Mathcad is computer software primarily intended for the verification, validation, documentation and re-use of engineering calculations. First introduced in 1986 on DOS, it was the first to introduce live editing of typeset mathematical notation, combined with its automatic computations.

References

  1. ↑ http://why.knovel.com/customers/industry.html
  2. ↑ http://why.knovel.com/customers/academic.html
  3. ↑ https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/knovel-engineering-information/expertise-behind-knovel
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