Safari Books Online, a US-based e-reference joint venture between publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, has announced significant enhancements to its services. The latest version of Safari includes the availability of full book downloads within Safari's library and gives companies the ability to instantaneously sign up small workgroups on Safari Books Online. Both upgrades enable Safari to fully meet the needs of enterprise and individual subscribers.
Safari Books Online's self-service feature for small workgroups is an easy-to-navigate function that allows small workgroups to sign themselves up as a workgroup. It makes it possible for small workgroups to initiate and administer their own accounts and manage their members, giving their members immediate access to the valuable information within the Safari library.
Safari has also made full book downloads available to all subscribers who have Safari Library accounts. Subscribers can now search across thousands of technical and business books to pinpoint needed information in a matter of seconds and then download and read entire books in PDF format. Prior to this release, users could only download chapters.
