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Books24x7 is the
largest online book resource offering access to the unabridged content
of thousands of business and technology books, as well as book summaries,
best practices, and executive reports. Books24x7's searchable, collaborative environment enables users to search
and locate discrete sections within the context of the book to instantly access
specific information, problem-solve, and learn.
 Books24x7
offers content from leading
industry publishers
and the collection includes ITPro,
BusinessPro, and OfficeEssentials.
New books are added almost daily.
Books24x7 is free to all
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Your User Profile, add your e-mail address, and click update.
Navigate with ease. Navigation aids and markers are consistently available, providing single click
access from title-to-title, chapter-to-chapter, and section-to-section.
Advanced linking jumps right to the content referenced, eliminating multiple
steps to locate cross-references, indexed and glossary terms, figures, tables,
footnotes, answers to questions, plus more.
Create a personal bookshelf. Users cannot only place books of interest on their personal bookshelf for quick
retrieval, but can also organize their selections by project, subject or any
other preference.
Bookmarking enables quick and
easy return to pertinent sections and automatically puts the book on your
bookshelf. You can add notes
to any bookmark for personal reference. On the bookmark page, fill in your
own bookmark label and add notes.
View a history of last accessed books.
A history of recently accessed books lets users retrace the last books they
viewed with links to the last page visited.
Share content with colleagues.
Users may suggest reading,
call attention to specific chapters or sections of content, and include a note.
The 'Share' feature utilizes users' e-mail programs so that they can take
advantage of existing contacts and distribution lists.
Share comments on a book. Give
your opinion or comment on a title or share them with colleagues. Comments
are linked from any book's table of contents.
Purchase a book. Users
may purchase a book on-line.
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ITPro provides best-in-class technology content for IT
professionals, programmers, database designers, network managers,
help desk support technicians, and web developers who need to keep pace with the
accelerating speed of technology and innovation. With thousands of books, ITPro
provides both broad and deep coverage of hundreds of technology topics
including the latest programming languages, coding methodologies, network
security, telecom protocols, IT asset management strategies.
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BusinessPro supports on-the-job problem solving and learning.
Subjects include the latest trends on leadership, from Six Sigma
to OSHA regulations, from project management to time management.
Business Pro can help when recruiting, hiring, or training, for
insight on strategic development.
Content is provided from the industry's leading business
publishers such as ASTD, Project Management Institute, Jossey-Bass, Harvard Business School Publishing,
Oxford Press, and many more.
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OfficeEssentials gives desktop users a self-paced learning tool
to find instruction for and answers to questions about common
office software applications in practical, how-to content in easy-to-understand language
without technical jargon for applications including Microsoft
Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop. OfficeEssentials contain popular books
series such as For Dummies, Step by Step, and No Experience Required.
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