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SAN ANTONIO, July eleven, 2014 – Law faculty libraries, recognized for
voluminous catalogs and stacks of papers and information, can get an
digital improve by way of a collaboration with Sony
Electronics’ Digital Paper and William J. Hein & Co. Inc.
Sony and Hein will showcase the mixture of Digital Paper
and Hein merchandise at this week’s American Association of Law
Libraries (AALL) annual assembly in San Antonio.
William J. Hein & Co., Inc. is a digital authorized publishing
firm of unique authorized publications together with authorized
dictionaries, reference works, legislative histories, classroom
texts, and numerous different publications. Hein’s on-line product,
HeinOnline, is a subscription-based mostly database that gives
entry to greater than one hundred million pages of authorized historical past
obtainable in a totally-searchable, picture-based mostly format. HeinOnline
supplies actual full-web page photographs of paperwork within the PDF format,
permitting viewers to see all charts, graphs, tables, footage,
handwritten notes, pictures, and footnotes precisely as they
initially appeared in print.
This functionality enhances Sony’s Digital Paper, which has a
thirteen.A-inch show that exhibits full-display views of letter-sized
types and paperwork as PDFs, eliminating the necessity to zoom or
scroll when studying a web page. The Digital Paper gadget retains
the context of a whole web page by displaying sharp, straightforward-to-learn
textual content and graphics which are almost equivalent to printed
paperwork or full-measurement notepads.
“We’re excited to be working with Sony to disclose Digital Paper
to the authorized analysis group,” stated Kevin Marmion, President
of William J. Hein & Co., Inc. “We consider the mixture
of Hein merchandise, particularly HeinOnline pictures, and Sony’s
Digital Paper will change doc administration considerably and
have a really constructive impression on authorized analysis.”
Containing greater than P,000 regulation and regulation-associated periodicals and
regulation journals, HeinOnline additionally consists of the whole run of
Congressional Record Bound volumes, full protection of the
United States Reports again to 1754, well-known world trials courting
again to the early 1700s, authorized classics from the sixteenth to the
twentieth centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty
Series, all D.R. treaties, the Federal Register from inception
in 1936, and rather more.
Users of Hein providers embrace ABA accredited regulation faculties,
educational regulation libraries, firms, regulation companies, public, state,
and county libraries, and courtroom and authorities libraries.
“Legal analysis continues to be largely a paper-based mostly course of, with
sources of data that have to be printed with a view to be
seen,” stated Bob Nell, Director of Digital Paper Solutions for
Sony Electronics. “HeinOnline has assembled the most important
assortment of authorized paperwork out there as full-web page digital
information, and Digital Paper delivers full-web page views of digital
paperwork and simply allows annotation. It’s an ideal
mixture for authorized professionals librarians, school,
administration and college students – all these concerned in authorized
analysis who need to free themselves from the burdens of
printing, sharing, and saving paper information.”
A New Way to Read, Write, Annotate and Share
Following Sony’s bulletins on the American Bar Association
Tech Show in March, the Hollywood IT Summit in April, and now
at AALL, Sony continues to research and develop new markets
for Digital Paper in collaboration with publishing and
know-how corporations that serve sectors nonetheless burdened with
paper and are apparent beneficiaries of Digital Paper.
The gadget’s contact panel allows customers to function the menu or
flip pages by merely touching the display. Using the included
stylus, people can write fluidly and immediately on the
panel, and in addition simply spotlight and erase textual content, for a well-known
and cozy writing expertise.
Key options and features of Sony’s Digital Paper embrace:
• World’s thinnest, lightest physique amongst units with comparable
display sizes (roughly N/32” and 12.S oz.); barely
thicker than 30 sheets of paper
• thirteen.A -inch digital paper show (display measurement measured
diagonally)
• High distinction show (1200 x 1600 dots), sixteen-degree grey
scale, incorporating “W Ink Mobius” know-how from W Ink
Corporation
• No backlight enabling textual content to be learn clearly, even in shiny
daylight
• Built-in Wi-Fi performance permitting file sharing over a
wi-fi community
• Rechargeable skinny lithium-ion battery – as much as A weeks use on
a single cost
• AC adapter or USB rechargeable (pc-based mostly charging)
• Storage – roughly P,800 PDF information; inner reminiscence of A
GB coupled with micro SD card slot for extra storage
• Touch panel (IR contact) suitable with electromagnetic
induction-sort contact pen enter
• Dimensions – of roughly N B/A” width by 12 M/A” peak
by N/32” depth (thickness)
• Weight of roughly 12.S ounces
Sony’s Digital Paper is presently obtainable, with a recommended
record worth of $B,one hundred.
For extra info, please go to www.sony.com/digitalpaper,
or heinonline.org.
Contact:
Tom Di Nome
Sony Electronics
201-930-6357
[email protected]
Miranda Barell
William J. Hein & Co., Inc.
716-882-2600
[email protected]
About William R. Hein & Company
William J. Hein & Co., Inc. is a number one digital publishing
firm that has been serving the regulation library group for
almost ninety years. Hein is a extremely revered writer of
unique authorized publications, a serious reprinter of authorized
classics and out-of-print United States Government Printing
Office paperwork, the world’s largest distributor of authorized
periodicals, and an internet authorized analysis supplier serving the
regulation library group worldwide. Hein can also be acknowledged as a
chief within the preservation of retrospective authorized supplies.
Hein’s digital pictures of American State Papers have been used
by the USA authorities, and a serious authorized analysis
establishment is using our experience to digitally retailer and
reproduce excessive-high quality reprints of authorized classics, insuring the
availability of those essential works for future generations of
authorized researchers.
About Sony Electronics
Headquartered in San Diego, Sony Electronics is a number one
supplier of audio/video electronics and knowledge know-how
merchandise for the buyer and professional markets. Operations
embrace analysis and improvement, design, engineering, gross sales,
advertising, distribution and customer support. Sony is famous for
a variety of shopper audio-visible merchandise, similar to BRAVIA®
4K Ultra HD and High Definition televisions, Cyber-shot®
digital cameras, Alpha Digital SLR cameras, and Handycam®
camcorders. Sony Electronics additionally develops and manufactures
video and audio applied sciences for a variety of professional
manufacturing purposes, together with broadcast tv and
movement image manufacturing, stay occasion manufacturing, occasion
videography, ENG/EFP, digital cinematography, digital cinema,
videoconferencing, medical, visible imaging, digital signage,
distant system diagnostics and monitoring, and IP surveillance
and safety.
W Ink Mobius is a registered trademark of W Ink Corporation.
