“Partnering with Knovel was a key component to our project’s success.”

Shell developed an innovative service to help their industrial customers identify and implement energy saving initiatives that don’t require major investment. To power this new service, Shell needed to provide an online resource that engineering consultants around the globe could tap for technical information. Shell provided their engineers with online access to Knovel’s extensive online technical reference collection. Knovel also imported and indexed proprietary content so Shell’s consulting engineers could access both Knovel and Shell proprietary content from a single interface. With this combination, Shell’s consultants can efficiently solve customers’ energy challenges, whether they are working in the office or at the customer’s.

“Knovel is a powerful system and it is so easy to use.”

Marsha Bishop, Observatory Librarian at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, (NRAO) was sold on Knovel after her first experience, where it quickly found valuable results for research she had already invested dozens of hours and thousands of dollars compiling. Replicating those savings over all the technical searches conducted by NRAO’s scientific staff added up to a huge impact on productivity and budgets. Bishop was further delighted when Knovel was able to help NRAO address a critical need that NRAO had been trying to address for 7 years: organization-wide access to critical out-of-print sources. When Knovel secured the online rights and made these titles available through Knovel’s online technical reference collection, research and development significantly sped up.

“Knovel greatly reduces the chance that we will make an off-spec product.”

PQ Corporation is a leading producer of soluble silicates, zeolites, silica gels, and other performance materials for the detergent, pulp and paper, chemical, petroleum, catalyst, water treatment, construction, and beverage markets. Engineers and scientists rely on Knovel to not only find information quickly, but also to extract information in an easy-to-use form. For example, one scientist was able to export data from Knovel to construct a spreadsheet that calculates the concentration of sulfuric acid based on density and temperature - data that helped tune operations in two of PQ’s plants.

“Knovel is designed the way scientists, engineers, and information professionals think. Researchers can quickly find the information they are after and then analyze and import the results into powerful job-specific productivity tools.”

As one of the world's leading ingredients companies, Danisco employs around 9,700 people in 47 countries. Innovation is key to Danisco’s success supplying the food industry, as evidenced by their over 2,000 active and pending patents. Librarians at Danisco’s Denmark headquarters subscribed to Knovel to provide online reference material to scientists, engineers, and patent attorneys around the globe to fuel continued innovation.

“Knovel’s interactive tables and equation plotters are major time savers.”

Tronox, formerly known as Kerr-McGee Chemical, is one of the leading providers of titanium dioxide pigment. Tronox engineers are constantly innovating to optimize production processes to sustain quality while improving efficiency. Knovel’s online technical reference collection is a valuable source of technical data that helps engineers quickly check key data such as reaction temperatures or update tables such as transfer coefficients based on heat, thermal conductivity, and viscosity data. With Knovel, Tronox chemical engineers can reduce research and analysis time by up to 75%. A typical professional engineer can save nearly seven hours of research time in an average week.

"Our analysts rely on access to Knovel to supplement their knowledge of particular technical areas. Our customers are repeatedly impressed with the command of their subject areas that our analysts demonstrate in conversations and written reports."

Landon IP conducts professional patent searching and consulting work. They strategically search and analyze patents and scientific articles, conduct technical intelligence, and consult to corporations and law firms worldwide. In Landon’s patent search work, accuracy and thoroughness are vitally important. They have a large group of patent analysts who each have specialized in a technical area and who cite technical information supplied by Knovel in their research.

Further, in order for patent practitioners to file accelerated examination patent applications, they rely on Landon IP to thoroughly search all resources outlined by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office – including Knovel. Knovel is a key resource for Landon to help customers gain valuable patent protection faster.

“Our students grew up using Google. Knovel provides the same ease-of-use and speed of access, but to a valuable collection of proprietary content not available through Google.”

The Colorado School of Mines is a PhD-granting state university in Golden, Colorado, offering degrees in engineering and the physical sciences – with a focus on earth resource engineering. The Arthur Lakes Library is responsible for providing approximately 4,000 students, faculty, and researchers with efficient 24x7 access to authoritative reference titles and databases. By providing ready-to-load MARC records, Knovel made it a breeze to integrate Knovel’s broad collection of reference titles, enabling students and staff to find answers to technical problems quickly, wherever and whenever they need them.

“The diverse array of content and Knovel’s easy-to-use interface have made it a popular search choice for users in the engineering disciplines at Drexel University.”

11,000 faculty, researchers, and students rely on Drexel University’s Hagerty Library for access to a broad and deep collection of technical reference materials. The interactive capabilities of Knovel’s tables and charts make accessing information through Knovel much more useful than hardcopy texts and data collections. Being able to import data into spreadsheets for further manipulation saves time and prevents errors. And Hagerty’s librarians value the training materials Knovel provides to help get new students and faculty members acquainted with this valuable resource.

“Knovel is a well-used product at the university with the most heavily used subject areas being chemistry and chemical engineering, followed by mechanics and mechanical engineering then materials and metallurgy.”

Purdue’s librarians are well aware that engineering students can be swamped by the array of resources available to them for investigating technical problems. They found the key to helping students become familiar with Knovel as a single point of access to an extensive collection of reference texts and databases: Purdue’s librarians recruit faculty members to illustrate how Knovel can help students find answers to technical problems more efficiently. Introducing students to Knovel not only helps them complete course work more efficiently, but arms them with a resource that will help them quickly master new areas in their subsequent careers.