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Engineering News-Record Teams With Northern Light to Build Premier Construction Industry Resource.


NEW YORK New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
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, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1998--

-- Publication Takes Internet Research This article is about using the Internet for research; for the field of research about the Internet, see Internet studies.

Internet research is the practice of using the Internet, especially the World Wide Web, for research.
 Capabilities to the Next Level --

Engineering News-Record Engineering News-Record (widely known as ENR) is a weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide. It has been published since 1874. It is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies.  (ENR ENR Enrolled (bill, resolution, etc. passed by both houses of Congress and re-typed)
ENR Engineering News Record
EnR Énergies Renouvelables (French)
enr Enregistrement (French) 
), the leading business weekly publication for the construction industry and a part of the McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., (NYSE: MHP) is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are education, publishing, broadcasting, and financial and business services.  Construction Information Group, and Northern Light Technology, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
, developer of the world's first research engine, today announced a partnership aimed at delivering comprehensive Internet-based information to the construction industry. Under the terms of the agreement, visitors to ENR's Web site, http://www.enr.com, can link to a customized version of Northern Light's research engine to search archived ENR articles dating back to January January: see month.  of 1995.

"In response to our readers request for an archive on our Web site, we partnered with Northern Light so that readers could easily search and access past articles of ENR," said Jan Tuchman, managing editor of Engineering News-Record. "Northern Light's superior search technology combined with the ENR archive provides construction professionals and the entire Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 community with access to affordable and reliable construction information."

When visitors go to ENR's Web site and click on the archive icon, they link to a co-branded site, powered by Northern Light, to search every full-text ENR article dating back to January 1995. Users can search by project name, article title, construction team members, industry terminology or any other words or phrases to find relevant information. Samples of subjects covered by ENR include: construction news, engineering, environmental protection, buildings, labor, safety, power plants, construction bids, transportation, economy and technology.

Northern Light automatically prioritizes the search results with relevance rankings and organizes them into Custom Search Folders(TM) so searchers can quickly find pertinent PERTINENT, evidence. Those facts which tend to prove the allegations of the party offering them, are called pertinent; those which have no such tendency are called impertinent, 8 Toull. n. 22. By pertinent is also meant that which belongs. Willes, 319.  results. The ENR archive can also be accessed from the McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group's Web site at http://www.construction.com as well as Northern Light's Web site at http://nlsearch.com.

Howard M. Mager, publisher of Engineering News-Record adds, "This is the first step in our long term strategy of providing all of our current and future www.enr.com users the opportunity to receive more in-depth information on projects, people, companies, and industry events."

In addition to accessing past ENR articles, the co-branded site is also linked to Northern Light's Industry Search which offers visitors the ability to expand their search for construction-related information across a wide breadth of industries and across additional information sources. For example, users will be able to search for articles on construction techniques in the petroleum industry and their results will include relevant articles from ENR as well as other documents from Northern Light's research library of 3,400 sources including newswires, trade journals and newsletters on the Web.

"Northern Light is committed to delivering the best content and best tools for serious business and industry research," said C. David Seuss, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Northern Light Technology. "ENR provides the construction industry with the authoritative industry information it needs for making better business decisions. Northern Light is proud to work with such a prestigious organization."

About Engineering News-Record:

Engineering News-Record (http://www.enr.com) is a weekly business publication serving the information needs of contractors, engineers, owners and other construction team members involved in engineered construction projects by providing news, feature stories, market statistics and analysis.

Engineering News-Record is part of the McGraw-Hill Construction Information Group, the leading provider of industry information, news and analysis to design and construction professionals, which offers a powerful network of print and electronic services. Engineering News-Record, Architectural Record, Design-Build, Sweet's Group and F.W. Dodge help customers make critical connections and decisions that build their businesses.

About Northern Light:

Northern Light Technology LLC (http://www.nlsearch.com), developer of the world's first research engine, provides enterprises and individuals with easy, instantaneous in·stan·ta·ne·ous  
adj.
1. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous.

2.
, and affordable access to highly relevant, quality information. Northern Light combines an online business library of 3,400 trusted, full-text sources and the content of the World Wide Web to deliver the most comprehensive results available. Northern Light features exclusive classification and organization technology so users more quickly find the information they need.

Northern Light Technology, headquartered in Cambridge, MA, was founded by a seasoned management team of librarians This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field. , business-to-business and Internet professionals who recognized the need to fill the gap left by search engines and private research services. Northern Light introduced its research engine in August of 1997.

    CONTACT: Earle Palmer Brown
              Kimberly Allen, 212/916-7604
              kallen@epb.com
                   or
              Northern Light
              Hilary MacPhail, 617/577-2140


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