Ei Announces Version 3.0 of Engineering Information Village.

HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1997--Engineering Information Inc. (Ei) has added several new features and significant navigational enhancements to its Engineering Information Village(TM), the unique cyberspace community that integrates traditional and informal database resources with newswires, text delivery, Web site guides and community services for subscribing technical professionals, managers and academics. The Company offers free 30-day trials of its Web-based service through its home page, at http://www.ei.org.

Included among the new features in Version 3.0 is the full abstracting of Web sites, with embedded links, as well as an easier-to-use interface and an on-screen tutorial for Ei CompendexWeb, the comprehensive engineering reference tool integral to Ei Village. To supplement this critical database resource, Ei is building a major adjunct to its Village Library. Called Data Sphere, the new center will house "reserved stacks" -- options for gateway access to some 200 non-Ei databases of interest to the engineering community, nearly 40 on a subscription basis and the balance through Ei Connexion, a transactional based service of particular interest to organizations without on-site library assistance. Among the first to sign an agreement with Ei to offer subscription services through the Ei Village Data Sphere are SilverPlatter Information and FIZ Technik of Germany. According to Eric Wm. Johnson, executive vice president of Ei and publisher of Engineering Information Village, this broadening of access to a fuller range of compatible, essential engineering information reaffirms the Village's identity as "the engineering channel on the Web."

Release 3.0 also features new Ei Monitors, a current awareness service backed by full text delivery. It provides the most significant and up-to-date articles from 145 core journals in 27 engineering industries and disciplines. Updated weekly, and offering a database of two years worth of material, Ei Monitors is a free tables of contents service for Ei Village residents, with documents available in one business day at applicable document ordering charges. Also being added is the new Network of Experts for engineering and technology, a vital people-to-people resource from Ei and Community of Science, who have partnered to provide a searchable database of 15,000 academic professionals in all areas of engineering and technology, including applied physics. Residents can find a qualified consultant by field of expertise, university affiliation, subject or name, and contact him or her by phone or e-mail.

With the release of Version 3.0, Ei is also launching its Electronic Ei Text services, bringing fulfillment of 1990's document delivery back under Ei management, with enhanced services for Ei Village residents, and Electronic Ei Text Featured Articles, a full text service electronically delivering select articles of timely interest for immediate delivery to the desktop.

As for interface enhancements, residents will gain even more speed and flexibility in finding information, with the built in addition of short-cut menus that allow lateral movement to adjacent sections of the Village even when several levels down, as well as buttons that let you navigate to a higher level.

Engineering Information Village(TM), initially released in mid-1995, was created by Engineering Information Inc., the 113-year-old publisher of information on engineering research. Prior to its Web service, Ei was best known for Ei Compendex(R) (published in print as Engineering Index), the world's most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database. The Company also publishes a line of specialty technical CDROMs and niche products delivered electronically, all backed by full text document delivery. Ei maintains offices in New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, the UK, Germany and the Philippines, and in addition is represented globally by a number of service agents. For additional information on Ei or any of the Company's products or services, contact Ei at its corporate headquarters at 1 Castle Point on the Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA, tel. [phone], fax [phone], e-mail [e-mail].

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