ASM 01939A

For 75 years, ASM Handbooks have been the best-known, most widely used reference tools available to materials engineers, specifiers, researchers and students. Now, these tools have taken a dramatic step into the new millennium. Introducing ASM Handbook on CD-ROM: the result of a partnership between The Dialog Corporation, a leader in electronic publishing, and ASM International, The Materials Information Society.

Finding precise information to solve an important problem can be extremely time consuming. ASM Handbook on CD-ROM raises the usefulness and accessibility of the information in the Handbooks to a new level. After all, your time is too valuable to waste.

ASM Handbook on CD-ROM uses DynaText Electronic Book Technology, in which text is formatted and presented to resemble the pages of a book.

The combination of ASM’s authoritative information and powerful search and navigation tools enables you to search for information any way you want:

Browse the expandable table of contents

Search or browse the comprehensive article index

Search for any word or phrase that appears in any volume in the collection

Search for words in specific contexts (for example, in section titles, tables or figure captions)

Apply easy-to-use search menus or advanced techniques such as Boolean searching

Hyperlink directly from a listing of search results to the specific information you need

Browse or read on screen, or print out text, tables and figures as needed

Search a single volume or across all of the volumes in the collection

REQUIRED HARDWARE/SOFTWARE:

Windows 3.1 or higher

486 PC

8 MB RAM

16 MB RAM for Win 95

Attached or network-accessible CD-ROM

Contents must be installed on hard drive

2.1 GB disc space required