Safari Books Online, a US-based e-reference joint venture between publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc. and Pearson Technology Group, has announced the launch of Safari Books Online 6.0. This release features advancements in the product offering, including new functionality such as an interactive reading experience; dynamic content categorisation; innovative community and collaboration features; and enhanced search functionality.
Safari Books Online 6.0 features improved search functionality that makes it easy to find all content in the digital library, including text, video and curriculum guides. A new interface also enables users to read the content while keeping the list of search results in view. Enhanced advanced search query capability enables the building of search rules through a simple dialogue box.
In addition, shared folders, search results, and notes allow workgroup users to network with other users about topics of interest, recommend content, and discover additional titles favoured by experts in the field. The ‘review this book’ feature allows subscribers to comment on a book or write a complete review. All ‘review this book’ entries are public and can be seen by all site visitors, with or without a subscription.
The latest version offers both an Amazon rating and Safari Books Online user-generated ratings on books and videos in the digital library to ensure users are finding the best materials available from trustworthy sources. Also, users can now create personal folders and save search preferences to categorise material in the digital library, enabling them to find and store titles of interest more quickly. Users can create and attach notes to a book or a page, highlight text and attach notes to that text, and print notes and highlights in a custom summary.
The enhanced readability feature gives users the ability to make inline notes in the text they are reading, dog ear or bookmark specific pages, and share these notes with other team members. Safari Books Online’s mobile-friendly website ensures that subscribers can read books wherever they are. PDFs downloaded from Safari Books Online are now optimised for mobile devices, computers and other reading devices.
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