“Sci-tech reference data in a virtual technical library.” Knovel includes over 800 reference books and databases from the world’s leading scientific publishers and professional societies in 18 industrially important subject areas. Publishers include John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill and Elsevier.

You can analyze and reorganize the data in these sources, and you can sort, filter and export data from “live tables,” resolve equations and plot graphs, capture values from existing graphs, and perform “what if” experiments on the data.

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“Knovel is made up of the words Knowledge and Novel, because Knovel is a Novel way to Knowledge. To pronounce it the K is silent as in Knowledge.”

A book or database containing an Interactive Table will have next to its hyperlinked title on a title list page, subject area page, search results page, etc. Clicking on the title will open up that book or database’s table of contents. Interactive tables allow you to find and customize data as you would do when using spreadsheet applications, such as Microsoft Excel. Features include selecting rows, sorting, finding data, and filtering data.

To export a graph or equation into a spreadsheet or document, click on the Export button at the left-hand side of the graph or equation screen.