Knovel Spotlight - University College London

On the University College London (UCL) campus, like many others, Knovel is changing the way engineering students conduct research. Just ask UCL’s Subject Librarian Lynne Meehan.

“When people ask me for data, I always go to Knovel,” says Meehan.

Knovel Spotlight - Donaldson

Innovation is a constant theme of Donaldson’s success. That's why Donaldson spends millions of dollars on research and development each year.

It’s also why Donaldson formed a partnership with Knovel in 2003. The primary reason Donaldson came to Knovel was, according to Donaldson’s Library Manager, Julie Eskritt, “the content.”

Knovel Spotlight - BP

To serve the multidisciplinary needs of global project teams, BP needed a resource offering the reference information necessary for employees to perform their many varied functions across diverse business units.

Knovel was a resource BP chose. A strictly online operation, not tied to the traditional brick and mortar model of a reference collection, Knovel allowed BP to be more nimble when it came to research and development. It also ensured that vital advances and challenging problems would not remain unresolved for lack of easily accessible technical information.

Knovel Spotlight - Bechtel

Bechtel engineer Perry Munsinger has dashed off to facilities around the globe packing stacks of personal notebooks and handbooks filled with the basic information needed to get his job done. Munsinger estimates that he’s spent thousands of dollars in shipping costs out of his own pocket just to have access to the data that is so vital to his work.

At least he used to. Now he uses Knovel, and he’s not looking back. For the past four years, Bechtel has provided all of its divisions around the world with access to Knovel to ensure that engineers have online access to up-to-date data that supports their projects.

Knovel Spotlight - University of Arkansas

As Engineering and Mathematics Librarian and associate professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Patricia Kirkwood has the job of introducing students to the quality resources they need to support their course study and future research.

Kirkwood’s strategy for requiring freshmen engineering students to participate in the Challenge is that the exercise exposes them to literature research skills necessary not only to complete their academic careers but as a method to find answers to real world problems that they meet in their internships and after they graduate.

Knovel Spotlight - Ingersoll Rand

Engineers and engineering managers at Ingersoll Rand needed up-to-date technical and engineering reference information for data analysis related to product support, new product development and best-practice information on Six Sigma and lean manufacturing methodologies, and they needed access around the clock from all corners of the globe.

In response to this global need for 24 x 7 access to reliable technical information, Ingersoll Rand’s engineering global services team turned to Knovel. Choosing to purchase a corporate wide subscription proved to be a very cost effective way to supply all the company’s engineers with the research and reference information they need to succeed in a timeframe that minimized expense.