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 http://heinonline.org.
Contact:
Tom Di Nome
Sony Electronics
201-930-6357
tom.dinome@am.sony.com
Miranda Barell
William J. Hein & Co., Inc.
716-882-2600
mbarell@wshein.com
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.