ASME Launches Online Digital Collection

ASME Launches Online Digital Collection ASME Launches Online Digital Collection The ASME Digital Collection the Societys online repository of current and archival literature was is now available on SCM6, an online publishing platform from Silverchair Information Systems. The state-of-the art platform will provide expanded accessibility and discoverability for ASMEs e-Books, journals and conference proceedings by leveraging the latest in semantic technology and a host of other features and functionality.Formerly known as the ASME Digital Library, the ASME Digital Collection is comprised of the Societys Transaction Journals published since 1960, ASME conference proceedings from 2002 to the present, and selected ASME Press eBooks published since 1993.The new publishing platform from Silverchair allows us to fully integrate all of our content and improve information discovery for researchers, educators and students, said Philip DiVietro, ASME managing director of publishing. The ASME Digital Collections unparalleled depth, breadth and quality of mechanical engineering technical content is easier and faster to access than ever. We are pleased to collaborate with Silverchair to provide a unified user experience.The Silverchair SCM6 platform features a wide range of applications and capabilities including . a new taxonomy that delivers highly accurate and related content of greater relevance drawn from ASMEs collection of proceedings, journal articles as well as eBooks full text and taxonomic search capabilities optimized for mechanical engineering information with precise filtering by multiple facets new topical collections to browse content in specific subject areas and easily find the most recent publications in those areas across all ASME publications enhanced content display and tools enables sophisticated organization and viewing of tables and figures, the ability to export to PowerPoint slides for lectures and presentations, as well as additional tools to manage content sharing, citation and permission requests, and more improved usability, information discovery and ease of reading facilitated by an intuitive user interface employing the best practices in web interface design personalization capabilities that enable customized page display, saved figures and tables, email alert management, subscription summaries and article access as well as mobile access activation through a personal login and optimized viewing for all web-enabled smart phones and tablets.To take a look at the various titles available on the ASME Digital Library and try out the new sites functionality, visit http//asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/.John Varrasi, ASME Public Information