NEW YORK, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of library patrons worldwide will have greater access to the medical and engineering books found within McGraw-Hill Professional's digital products since these products are now aligned with international standards for online cataloguing.
By using the widely used and accepted MARC 21 standards, McGraw-Hill Professional is enabling libraries to automatically upload a large number of titles onto their Online Public Access Catalogs with ease. As a result, all books in McGraw-Hill Professional's AccessMedicine and the Digital Engineering Library (DEL) will be visible and searchable through the respective library systems and will link to subscribed content.
McGraw-Hill Professional's AccessMedicine is an online resource that provides students, residents, clinicians, and researchers with digital access to the medical world's most trusted sources such as Harrison's Principle's of Internal Medicine and Hurst's The Heart, along with PDA downloads, patient education, an integrated drug database, and a differential diagnosis tool.
DEL features online content from world renowned McGraw-Hill publications, structured around 12 major areas of engineering and more than 200 topics, allowing users to quickly narrow their search down to their specialized information needs.
MARC 21 files for both AccessMedicine and DEL are delivered through library resource centers with the library picking up the files on a quarterly basis. MARC 21 Records are provided with no additional charge for those libraries that have purchased AccessMedicine or DEL. More information can be found on http://www.accessmedicine.com and http://www.digitalengineeringlibrary.com.
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