Sabinet Online has launched Engineering and Mining World, a new content-rich Web portal with a wide variety of value-added information for all categories of the engineering profession.
The service went live on 1 May, coinciding with the Built Environments Professions Convention, held at the Sandton Convention Centre. However, the official launch will be roadshowed around the country, of which the first will take place in Centurion on 21 May and in Johannesburg on 30 May.
Sabinet Online is South Africa's premier gateway facilitator to value-added online information, with a 19-year history of serving many of the country's major corporates as well as academic, state and quasi-government institutions.
According to Vanessa du Plessis, Director: Sabinet Online Corporate Division, this business unit of the company devotes its energies towards developing business-related and industry-focused databases, with the emphasis on South African content.
"Engineering and Mining World, located at www.engmin.co.za, is the first of a planned range of vertical market web portals to meet the specialised information needs of individual market sectors.
"The information need of the engineering and mining sector presented itself to our company, considering the growth in these industries in SA, Africa and abroad in countries such as Australia."
"Using the same development model, additional vertical market services that will be aimed at the financial and legal communities respectively, will be added shortly, followed by similar portals over time," says Du Plessis.
Annemarie Geldenhuys, Product Manager: Corporate Division, further explains: "Engineering and Mining World provides industry-specific information for practitioners in the mining, engineering and petrochemical industries, with value-added information products and services for subscribers."
The service provides users with free access to the entry portal, which offers a range of information of interest to the profession, including news, events such as conferences and exhibitions, and articles.
In addition to the free entry information, Engineering and Mining World offers a basic module, which includes 12 databases accessible on subscription.
The engineering subsets within the basic module are comprehensive, covering biotechnology, chemical engineering, construction, electrical and nuclear, general and civil, hydraulic and environmental, industrial, materials and manufacturing, mechanical, mining and metallurgy, petrochemical, technology, and transportation.
Additional subscription modules to follow include selected full-text South African journals, as well as a draft legislation alerting service, which covers the progress of parliamentary bills.
A link to a subset of the McGregor's business information will be added soon, says Geldenhuys.
"The Engineering and Mining World portal is user-friendly, with easy keyword searching on our powerful search engine," she notes.
"The information is available in full-text or with the option to order a copy immediately, should it not be available online in full-text."
The service has been developed in conjunction with various Sabinet Online clients from the engineering, mining and petrochemical industry who participated in workshops to add their input to the appearance, focus and desired content of the site.
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Sabinet Online Limited is SA's premier gateway facilitator to value-added online information. Access is offered to acclaimed local and international information databases on a vast range of subjects. In addition, needs-filtered information is provided through an alerting service to clients' desktops.
Sabinet Online's services are widely used within companies on their intranets, as well as on academic campuses and within government structures. Users include business enterprises in various segments such as pharmaceutical, marketing specialists, business and financial analysts, the legal fraternity, mining and engineering industry and others.
Established 19 years ago, the company is based in Centurion.
Visit its Web site at http://www.sabinet.co.za
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