Information Today
                     Volume 16, Number 6 • June 1999		 New Ei Computing Village Goes Live

Engineering Information, Inc. (Ei), producer of the Internet subscription service Engineering Information Village, has announced that it has launched its third Village on the Internet with the commercial release of Ei Computing Village.

Created specifically to support computer scientists in industry, the new Internet-based subscription service provides direct desktop access to crucial information for programmers, researchers, IT managers, and other computing professionals, the company says.

According to the announcement, the Village is a unique integration of online information services. At the heart of the village is the computing abstracts database, Ei Compendex for Computing. Compendex helps residents quickly identify and order any of 1 million articles and conference papers, delivered by Internet fax through the Electronic Ei Text program.

In addition, Ei Computing Village provides direct electronic access to a set of Elsevier Science journals organized around the following packaged topics: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems; Multimedia; CAD and Modeling; Signal Processing and Electronics; Telecommunications; Programming; and Computer Architecture, Automation, and Control.

The Village service organizes, monitors, and provides point-of-access descriptions for some 5,000 computing and computing-business related Web sites. New sites are being added daily to the Village, which also supplies daily and weekly updates to news and technical literature. Additionally, subscribers have access to a database of experts, senior resident scientists, lectures and forums, plus other desktop assistance relating to computing.

This new product is in response to customer demand, Ei reports. “Customers and potential customers were expressing the need for a more targeted service,” said the director of editorial development at Ei. “The numbers of publications and of researchers in the field of computer research are growing all the time. We wanted to combine our data with the full text of 100 peer-reviewed journals to create a service for medium-sized corporations. We’re providing an online research center that allows both information specialists and end users to manage, identify, and order all core information.”

Source: Engineering Information, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 201/216-8500; Fax: 201/216-8522; http://www.ei.org.
 

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