SOR Knovel Ebooks 2020_Final.pdf

Office of Contracting and Logistics Management Revised 05 Mar 2015

Statement of Requirements

Knovel eBook Collections Annual Subscription 2020 Dudley Knox Library (DKL) Naval Postgraduate School

1.0 Background/Introduction:

DKL maintains a curated portfolio of information products from a variety of credible and proprietary sources supporting teaching, learning, and research needs of NPS students and faculty. Selection is based on relevance to curricula and research interest, the quality of content, and some technical delivery preferences. The annual subscription to the Knovel eBook Collections provides current engineering data and technical references in these broad subject areas: Aerospace & Defense, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Engineering Design & Construction, Education & Research, and Equipment Manufacturing. It supports instruction and research primarily in the GSEAS and GSOIS departments.

2.0 Minimal Technical Requirements/Salient Characteristics:

• IP-based access

• Available on a platform already in use

• Unlimited simultaneous user access

• Scholarly content

• Powerful data searching capability

• Content discoverable through Primo (library resource discovery tool)

• Unique, single-supplier proprietary content

• Interactive objects derived from static graphs, equations, and tables, with data analysis tools to optimize use of these interactive objects

• Integrated online engineering tools such as Autodesk, AutoCAD, and MS Excel

• Chapters downloadable as PDFs

• COUNTER-compliant usage reporting

• Personalized accounts available

• Citations exportable to bibliographic management software

• Mobile-friendly platform