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New Look for Search Results In response to many requests from Safari Subscribers, we have upgraded the Search Results page. We have folded the former view-by-book and view-by-section results into one view, combining the best of both. Each title - book, video, Rough Cut or Short Cut - is displayed only once (like the former view-by-book view), with a snippet of text from the most relevant section (like the former view-by-section view). You can click on "more results from this book" link to see additional relevant sections from the title. When you conduct a search, you will also notice that your results are now available from four tabs: Books, Videos, Safari Guides, and Articles. Below is an example of the top books in a search for ruby. Clicking the Videos tab, you see the top videos found in the same search. Further, you can now narrow and focus searches by inserting additional terms. In the example below, the user has added rails to the original search for ruby and the list of titles has reduced from 518 to 132. You can continue to narrow the search results by adding more search terms. Also, you can step back to a previous point in your search by clicking a previous search term in the breadcrumb listing of search terms.

Safari Books Online Named 2008 JOLT Productivity Award Winner Safari Books Online was chosen as a 2008 Jolt Product Excellence Awards finalist and Productivity Winner in the Web Sites/Developer Networks category. We are excited that Safari is included in this group of products that are "ahead of the curve, universally useful, simple yet rich in functionality, or that have solved a nagging problem in their product space." And, every book listed as a finalist in the Technical Books category, and half of the books in the General Books category, are available through Safari! These include Beautiful Code, Head First SQL, The Rails Way, and WPF Unleashed. For the past 17 years, the Dr. Dobb's Jolt Product Excellence Awards have been presented annually to showcase products that have "jolted" the IT industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient. We are proud to have been recognized by the industry and to become a part of this prestigious group of products and companies.


New Publishers on Safari Books Online We are pleased to announce the introduction of John Wiley & Sons content to Safari Books Online. Wiley is one of the most respected publishers in the industry, celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2007. A leading publisher for the technical, business and academic communities worldwide, Wiley brings a selection of top technology and business titles to Safari Books Online. With the inclusion of Wiley content, Safari Books Online is now the only source for online access to the world's top four technology publishers. Pearson, John Wiley & Sons, O'Reilly Media, and Microsoft Press represent 85% of the computer books sold at retail in the U.S., according to Nielsen BookScan.


Safari How To (Beta version) Safari introduces Safari How To, a database of tutorials and solutions to help you locate specific answers quickly. Safari How To enables you to pinpoint practical tutorials and solutions. Enter your search terms in the search window to locate a tutorial or solution. You can rate, review, save, and print your favorite How Tos. Safari How To is currently available as a Beta version on Safari Labs, with over 70,000 How Tos drawn from more than 400 books. Learn more >


Safari Video Safari Books Online has added video-based Technical and Design courses. As a Safari Library subscriber you'll have unlimited access to over 600 hours of video training in fundamental design and graphics principles along with the latest computer software, digital media technologies and techniques. Learn an entire application, or skip to specific topics. With the addition of video, Safari now provides a robust environment for instruction and learning, along with reference and search. Video content is included at no additional cost for Safari Library subscribers. Video is not available through Bookshelf subscriptions. Learn more >


Safari Labs The Safari Labs page has been refreshed and redesigned! The goal of the labs page is to let you play with prototypes or betas of new features. Safari Labs is the place where user collaboration and engagement is strongly encouraged. Hearing from users early on in the development process will help deliver those features from which users gain the most value. Learn more >.

Nested Search Now you can narrow your list of search results. The new Nested Search feature enables you to narrow the focus of a search progressively - by adding more specific terms to the query. We experimented with this feature on Safari Labs over the past year. Because we received many positive responses from subscribers, we have now added this powerful search feature to the full site.

Safari Short Cuts Important new topics are not always book-length. The new Short Cuts format answers your need for fast-breaking information or highly focused topics. Short Cuts are an example of electronic publishing at its best: the latest information or the most specialized topic, in a concise and focused format. Short Cuts, as their name suggests, are briefer than books, but they come from publishers you know and trust. A Short Cuts title is a complete treatment of specific or very timely topic, usually in under 100 pages. Short Cuts are included in Safari Library subscriptions. For Safari Bookshelf subscribers, most Short Cuts take up just half of a bookshelf slot. If you want to download a Short Cuts title, the whole Short Cut will be a single PDF. Learn more >

New! Print Fidelity PDF Downloads Certain books that are page layout-intensive can be viewed in the new Print Fidelity view on Safari. The Print Fidelity view presents the books with the same page layout found in the printed book. And now, when you download a PDF of a chapter (or a complete Short Cut title) of a book that is available in Print Fidelity view, the PDF will look the same as the Print Fidelity view you see on your screen.

Safari Library Safari Books Online has launched a new service called Safari Library that enables unlimited access to all Safari technical content including video and Rough Cuts service online. You'll get quick and complete access to every book in the collection with no limitations for one flat monthly fee. Imagine the value of being able to access and search the content of over four thousand books from leading technology authors whenever you wish. And if you subscribe now, you'll receive 20% off the Publishers' Rate Card! Learn more >

Safari New Features and Enhancements Safari has made many improvements to help increase your productivity and enhance your overall experience. We know that you come to Safari to access reliable information and to find solutions to your questions. We listen to feedback from our users and, as a result, have added enhancements to make your experience even better than before. Here are some important improvements and features:
Print Fidelity or HTML? Choose Your Viewing Mode
We've added a new "Print Fidelity" capability to serving content. These buttons, now available for a growing number of titles, allow you to choose either Print Fidelity view or HTML view as your preferred reading mode. Just the click of a button toggles between views for certain books that are offered in Print Fidelity view because they are page layout-intensive. Check out the list of Print Fidelity books and tell us what you think.
Page Turning Made Easy Now you can turn pages without scrolling to the top or bottom of the page. Simply click the gray borders along either side margin to flip instantly from page to page.
Improved PDF Readability and Downloading When you download chapters in PDF, you will notice a number of layout and formatting improvements. You will see improved font choices and larger font sizes. More of the page is devoted to the text you want to read, while headers and footers are more concise. Effective use of white space on the page makes the PDFs more readable. Finally, downloading chapters now goes more quickly.
Rough Cuts Online Access Safari Library subscribers can now view all Rough Cuts titles online. PDF downloads and significantly discounted print books will remain a separate purchase. Safari Library Promo users can see Preview versions of all Rough Cuts titles online and can purchase full access to any individual Rough Cuts title(s).
Newsletter Keeps You Current The Safari Books Online newsletter is now available. Find out what's new by reading the latest newsletter.
Tell Us What You Think We are continually making changes as a result of listening to our users. Please tell us what you like and what you'd like us to change by giving us your feedback.

Additional Safari Features
Longer Page Views for Book Content We've slimmed down the top margin so that more space is devoted to content, with less scrolling required. There are also many cases where we've increased the amount of content that appears in a single page view. Content such as chapter introductions and the first section has been combined to appear in one page view instead of two. Faster Page Refresh Using Ajax, Safari serves pages faster and more efficiently, giving priority to core page components that need to be refreshed first. For example, when you click on the "Previous" or "Next" buttons inside a book, you should notice that the core book content arrives prior to anything else.
Choices on Log-in You get to choose where you go after you log in, including going back to the last page you were reading.
Suggested Search As you type your search terms Safari will suggest, in real time, expressions from the most popular searches our users have entered.
Convenient Access to Advanced Search Parameters A new dropdown provides access to filtering on book titles, section titles, code fragments, author, ISBN and publisher.
Front-matter Content Freely Viewable Front-matter content, such as the preface and introduction, is now freely viewable, whether or not the book is on your bookshelf.
More Contextual Preview from Search In search results, if you are in "view-by-section" mode, we provide a more contextual navigation from the search snippet to its associated content. If the book isn't yet on your bookshelf, there is a one-to-one linkage between text seen in the snippet and the preview inside the book. Instead of going to the top few paragraphs of the section, we'll take you to the same content seen in the snippet. The preview has also been expanded to show more content.
Improvements to "Additional Reading" links When you click on an "Additional reading" link (found at the bottom of book content pages), the destination section is now viewable in full. You no longer get only the limited preview if the book isn't on your bookshelf. In addition, the links no longer reference the same book you're currently reading, and you can even turn the additional reading block off and on.