Engineering Information Village Opens In China.HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1998--Engineering Information Inc. (known as "Ei"), the largest provider of engineering information worldwide, is introducing its award-winning Internet service, Engineering Information Village(TM), in China beginning in March. Working with Professor LIU LIU Linköpings Universitet (Sweden) LIU Long Island University (New York) LIU Line Interface Unit LIU Lightguide Interconnection Unit (AT&T) LIU Laugh It Up Guilin, Director of the University Library of Tsinghua University History Tsinghua University was established in Beijing in 1911 on the site of a former royal garden belonging to a prince, and was funded by an indemnity which in Beijing, and LIU Qiang, Vice President of Beijing Document Services (BDS BDS abbr. Bachelor of Dental Surgery BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery BDS n abbr (= Bachelor of Dental Surgery) → título universitario BDS ), Ei has assembled an important consortium of academic and industrial organizations to participate in testing the new service, which has been customized for Chinese engineering students and technical professionals. To provide the fastest Internet downloading time and same-time-zone technical assistance, the data will be hosted locally, by Tsinghua University. Participating universities will be trained at Tsinghua and industrial members of the consortium will be offered training by BDS. Engineering Information Village was created to bring to the desktop integrated access to all important international engineering information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. , including: formal databases, such as Ei CompendexWeb; access to 200 other, non-Ei databases, including patents and standards; guides to 16,000 relevant Web sites from around the world, including perhaps the largest centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. resource of technical products catalogs; the full text of journal articles and conference papers, deliverable via Internet fax Using the Internet to send faxes. Fax servers accept an incoming fax message and route it to a fax server in the same locality as the destination fax machine. The fax server then makes a local telephone call to send the fax. ; current awareness services and technical newswires; contact with technical support staff, engineering colleagues as well as other professional resources; and many other content and community services. Special in this regional edition will be a Chinese Engineering Center, which includes access to Chinese language technical Web sites along with summary descriptions of those Chinese sites selected, evaluated and monitored for inclusion. All of Engineering Information Village content will be fully translated into Chinese, except for technical summaries that point to English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. Web sites, since the sites themselves are in English. Representing Ei in China is ZHONG Sixuan. Should you wish to obtain more information on this project, you may contact ZHONG in Beijing at telefax The European term for a fax machine. number (86) 10 6832 7345, or by sending e-mail to szhong@ei.org. Ei Village is presently in use in 25 countries. In all, Ei products and services are in use in over 80 countries. CONTACT: Engineering Information Inc. mkaufman@ei.org |
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