 SPE NOW OFFERS REGULARLY UPDATED SELECTION OF TECHNICAL BRIEFS ONLINE, WITH DELIVERY TO DESKTOPS OR MOBILE DEVICES
In New 'SPE PRO,' at Least 80 Briefs at a Time Will be Posted and Readable by All Site Visitors; only SPE Members Will Be Able to Access Many More Briefs in Archives
NEWTOWN, CT, U.S.A., February 2, 2010: ''SPE PRO,'' a new free online service from the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), provides a regularly updated selection of professionally edited briefs in key sectors of plastics technology and polymer science, enabling any site visitor to keep abreast of the latest developments, it was announced today by Tom Conklin, SPE's director of marketing and sales.
SPE PRO (for Plastics Research Online) will eventually include more than 80 briefs at time, with new additions made weekly and available via email, RSS feed, or Twitter. Older briefs will be archived in SPE's Online Technical Library and made accessible only to SPE members.
''SPE encourages everyone—SPE member or not—to take advantage of this new resource for competitiveness and professional advancement,'' said Conklin. ''All of the briefs to be posted will be based on technical papers and journal articles prepared by experts and professionally edited for clarity and ease of understanding.''
The initial list of categories in which briefs will be available includes Applied Rheology, Bioplastics, Engineering Properties, Extrusion, Failure Analysis, Injection Molding, and Plastics Nanotechnology.
''We expect to have at least a dozen briefs at a time posted in each of these categories, and we may well add categories in the future,'' said Conklin.
The briefs currently online can be viewed at www.4spepro.org or accessed via a Plastics Research Online link in the Technical Resources section on the SPE website homepage. The technical articles can be browsed by title or subject. Links and prompts are available to subscribe for email, RSS, or Twitter updates.
SPE is partnering with Wiley InterScience on this new service.
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