FAQs
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- What does Safari Books Online do?
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Safari Books Online offers up-to-date electronic reference libraries for programming, IT, creative, and business professionals.
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- Does Safari just offer e-books?
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Safari offers a database of rich tech and creative pro content from leading technology publishers. Safari's content goes far beyond books. We accelerate access to important technology advancements through our innovative Rough Cuts and Short Cuts publishing mediums. Safari also offers instructional videos, certification manuals, and timely articles. Learn on the fly and tackle everyday technical challenges far more efficiently than relying on disparate information resources. With Safari Books Online you have all the information you need from the most trusted authors and innovators at your fingertips.
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- Who publishes on Safari?
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Safari Books Online, LLC is a joint venture between two leading technology publishers: O'Reilly Media and The Pearson Technology Group. A variety of other publishers have made their content available on Safari as well, including Microsoft Press, IBM Press, Muska & Lipman, SAS Publishing, lynda.com and Premier Press. A complete list of contributing publishers can be found in the Publishers section of this website.
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- When can I access Safari?
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You can access your Safari subscription via a Web browser from any computer anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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- How often is the content updated?
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With so many titles being added to Safari Books Online every month, subscribers are just a few clicks away from new and relevant technology information.
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- What do I do if I need information from my Safari subscription, but can't get access to the web?
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Safari offers PDF downloads of most chapters of our books so you can keep working with the information you need even when you can't get access to the web.
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- How do I subscribe?
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Subscribing is easy, and just clicks away.
Individual subscribers can enter their subscription order online - just follow the instructions, and you're on your way.
Corporate subscriptions are tailored to an organization's requirements. Specific solutions and pricing options are available. Contact a Safari representative for corporate subscription options.
Subscriptions for the academic and public library community are available through our partner, ProQuest CSA. Contact a ProQuest CSA representative for a subscription for your academic organization.
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- Is the content in Safari searchable?
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You can search across the entire Safari Books Online database containing thousands of book collections from leading publishers. Safari's search filters enable you to find the exact piece of information you need. Using Safari's advanced search, you can conduct complex searches, such as finding books with the word CCNA in the title published by Cisco Press between 2003 and 2006.
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- Online books are too hard to read - they don't look like regular print books, and they are hard to scroll through. Does Safari do anything to make this easier?
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Safari offers subscribers the opportunity to view many books in either HTML or Print Fidelity mode. Print Fidelity means that the book is presented in the exact page format found in the hard copy version.
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- Is Safari's content exclusive, or can I find it in other places online?
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Safari's collection is the only place where you will find all of the books from our publishers in a single database.
Got more questions? Visit our Knowledge Portal or contact a Safari Books Online representative for in-depth answers to your questions about Safari Books Online and our products and services.
