Safari® Tech Books Online is the ideal ready-reference resource, providing a level of authority, flexibility, and currency unequalled by other online IT reference databases. Featuring over 7,920 titles, it covers the technologies most essential to users including certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linus/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, and more. Users can search hundreds of books simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding the information they need.

A joint venture of O’Reilly Media and The Pearson Technology Group, Safari Tech Books Online offers a valuable collection of reference content from these two premier IT publishers. Together, the two companies deliver well over half of all IT books published. You get to choose titles from over 60 imprints, including:

• Addison-Wesley Professional
• Adobe Press
• Cisco Press
• IBM Redbooks
• Microsoft Press
• New Riders
• Peachpit Press
• Prentice Hall PTR
• Que
• Sams
• And more

With Safari Tech Books Online, users can find exactly the information they need from a source they can trust, all in a fraction of the time they’d spend searching elsewhere. Its powerful search engine features:

• Searching by keyword, phrase, author, ISBN, publisher, or category
• Thumbnails of book covers in the hit list
• Relevancy-ranked results for both books and terms
• Hit lists of book chapters containing the search terms
• Keywords in context in the hit list
• Cut-and-paste code fragments to save time and eliminate typos

Users can browse all Safari Tech Books just as they would books in print. Each title contains a complete table of contents with chapter links for easy page-to-page browsing. All charts, graphs, and other images are included just as originally published, ensuring that users get total access to the entire range of content offered in each title.

Video content now available

Academic and public libraries with certain subscription packages can now upgrade their collection to include world-class online instructional videos.

The videos in this collection provide instruction on web design, software development, and graphics tools and techniques, along with training videos for software such as Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop, Mac OS X, Dreamweaver, Flash, Windows XP, and Microsoft Office.

Over 390 titles, delivering nearly 1,500 hours of training, with additional video content being added on an ongoing basis. The videos reside on the Safari Books Online platform, can be cross-searched with other Safari content, and possess the same search functionality as the books. You can learn an entire application from start to finish, or skip to a specific topic or snippet as opposed to watching the entire video. Each video is available in QuickTime, Adobe Flash, and Windows Media. Video titles include training from leading publishers, such as:

• Addison Wesley Professional
• Addison-Wesley
• Cisco Press
• lynda.com
• New Riders
• O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Peachpit Press
• Prentice Hall
• Que
• Sams