For Immediate Release
June 6, 2003

1st ONLINE VERSION OF INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL TABLES (ICT) AVAILABLE THROUGH WWW.KNOVEL.COM

ICT’s Critical Data on Inorganic and Organic Compounds, and
Pure Substances, is now Interactive and Easily Accessible!

NORWICH, NY - For the first time in history, chemists, physicists, and engineers can access an enormous amount of critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances online with Knovel at www.knovel.com. Knovel Corporation—a Web-based technical information and analysis service for millions of engineers, scientists, and students—has converted International Critical Tables (ICT)'s seven-volume hard bound classic into a highly interactive online reference. ICT was originally published for the National Research Council, and offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties. This powerful new research tool can turn a multi-hour research project into a two-minute task, with the click of a mouse!

Not only is this well-known reference available online for the first time in history, but ICT’s content on www.knovel.com is also easily searchable and enhanced with interactive productivity tools like “live” spreadsheet-like tables, and graphing and calculation packages. Additionally, these online volumes of premium chemistry, physics, and technical resources are all seamlessly merged into a consistent, user-friendly Web interface. The online text of ICT’s original print version is available in PDF format (full-text searchable), including the original index. In addition, many tables have been made live, including:

Chemical Compounds (Inorganic), B-Table;

Chemical Compounds (Organic), C-Table;

Liquid Crystals;

Building Stones;

Rotations and Melting Points of Pure Sugars and Sugar Derivatives;

Surface-Tension Data for Certain Pure Liquids between 0 and 360°C and for All Types of Solutions at All Temperatures;

Heats of Solution of Organic Substances;

The Electrical Conductivity of Pure Non-Metallic Liquids;

and Viscosity of Pure Liquids.

All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

“Recognizing how the Internet has revolutionized the way scientists and engineers research, use and distribute information, coupled with our commitment to listen to our customers’ requests for premium content, offering the International Critical Tables online will surely be an added benefit to researchers in need of obtaining sci-tech information quickly and easily,” said Christopher Forbes, president & CEO, Knovel Corporation. “Knovel delivers the promise of the Internet as the way researchers will interact with the information and content they want in the future.”

Here is what satisfied customers say about ICT being online:

“Thank you, Knovel, for breathing new life into the old International Critical Tables! This monumental 1920's work, praised for its comprehension and reviled for its bad indexing (its nickname was the "Intentionally Cryptical Tables") has long been unavailable to most scientists. Now it has once again become a valuable data source for chemists, thanks to Knovel's enhanced indexing of the contents.”

—Bartow Culp, Chemistry Librarian, Mellon Library of Chemistry, Purdue University

About Knovel

The Knovel information service dramatically increases productivity for engineers and scientists by transforming hundreds of the world's top technical references into a single online source that answers complex questions quickly and easily. Documented cases show Knovel saves up to 75% of the time spent in research and analysis. Knovel's highly intuitive Web interface empowers users to find and verify information faster than traditional research methods. Users manipulate and analyze information with tools like interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Knovel serves scientists, engineers, technicians, librarians, and students in sectors such as chemical, medical device, pharmaceutical, automotive, insurance, heavy equipment, aerospace, and academe.

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