Knovel release notes

Platform & User Interface

• New Content Viewers: The Content Viewer has been replaced by new PDF and HTML viewers with the following features

  • Mobile-friendly responsive design.
  • Improved in-document search within a chapter, the full book, or all of Knovel.
  • HTML supports dark mode, text reflow, and resizing options.
• Updated Site Navigation: The main navigation menu has moved from the left sidebar to a header at the top of the page.
• Accessibility: Site-wide accessibility has been improved in support of EAA guidelines. An Accessibility Statement is now available in the site footer. 

Content Updates

• New Publisher Content: New content includes the DIPRA Cast Iron Handbook and conference proceedings from the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM).
• U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) Archive: All 142 Final Reports and 100 Recommendation Reports from the CSB have been added to Knovel, available by August 2025.
• Expanded Newsfeed Languages: Engineering Newsfeeds are now available in over 30 languages.

Feature Retirements & Changes

• Mobile App Retirement (July 31, 2025): The standalone Knovel ToGo mobile app has been retired. The Knovel website is now fully mobile-responsive, offering a superior user experience and access to all features.
• Annotations Feature Removal: The "Create Annotations" feature has been removed due to low user adoption. 
• PMI Content Update (June 29, 2025): 26 older, out-of-print titles from the Project Management Institute (PMI) were removed at the publisher's request. This action does not affect the PMBOK® Guide.

• Customized Facet Ordering

  • Making the facet order customizable allows users to choose the order that is fits their preference and aligns with their preferred filter behavior.
  • Facets can be dragged and dropped into a user’s preferred order
  • The top facet type’s default state will be expanded on subsequent searches
  • The newly ordered facet panel will stick until (a) registered user changes the order again, or until a user clears cookies
• DIPPR Project 801 Now Includes 2021 Updates

  • Keeping this valuable database up-to-date, helps users who use this critical information have access to the most current data.
  • 18 new compounds were added to the database. The Quick Substance lookup will not reflect this update for a period.
  • DIPPR Project 801
• New Isocorrosion Graph Viewer Added to Knovel Corrosion 

  • For users subscribing to Knovel Corrosion, a new Graph Viewer for Isocorrosion Curves was added.
  • Isocorrosion graphs are a way of showing consistent corrosion rates over a range of temperature and concentration conditions. They fill gaps in spot data, and help users identify unique conditions with outlier corrosion rates that could otherwise be missed when only looking at specific conditions.
  • 350 isocorrosion graphs have been added to Knovel Corrosion.
  • The new viewer supports getting data from any curve in the graph without having to pre-select it. It also supports unit conversion, export, and zooming.
    
    
    

• New Engineering Overview of Batteries and Energy Storage

  • From powering onboard computers and sensors to replacing internal combustion engines with electric motors, storing intermittent renewable energy to selecting the right battery chemistries for the application, there’s an increasing need for engineers to understand existing and emergent energy storage technologies. This Engineering Overview was created to help users identify the types of information available on Knovel.
    
• Improved Search Performance

  • Users have busy lives and expect things to move fast in today’s “every second counts” digital world. The quality of the search experience is not only measured by the relevancy of the results, but also by the speed in which those results are returned. Knovel search results are, for most queries, now returned visibly faster.
• Bugs around Save Search Query 

  • There have been a few Bugs around saving Search Queries to My Knovel that have been fixed.

• Material Property Search Card

  • When users enter materials with a property in a general search, we recognize this and present the Material Property Search card, as opposed to having to build a data query directly from the Property Search page.
    
• Improved Complex and Advanced Search Queries

  • Queries (such as those seen below) that combine AND, OR, NOT (between fields, across fields, or in Free-Text/Global), as well as those that used parentheses to group portions of a query are interpreted better and more reliably. This will support Users wanting to combine Advanced Search fields, build a query with multiple Boolean operators or groupings in either Advanced Search or Global Search should be able to depend on our ability to correctly parse and interpret that query.
    
    
    
    
    
• Admin Center Emailed Reports

  • Customer Admins requesting emailed Resources Reports will now receive XLSX files as an attachment, an upgrade from XLS format and external links.

• Content Updates

  • Patty’s Industrial Hygiene 7th edition added

    • The Bible of Industrial Hygiene
      Since the first edition in 1948, this book has become a flagship publication for Wiley. During its nearly seven decades in print, it has become a standard reference for the fields of occupational health and toxicology. The volumes on industrial hygiene are cornerstone reference works for not only industrial hygienists but also chemists, engineers, toxicologists, lawyers, and occupational safety personnel.
    • Volume 1 covers Introduction of Industrial Hygiene and Recognition of Chemical Agents
    • Volume 2 covers Chemical Exposure Evaluation and Control
    • Volume 3 covers Recognition and Evaluation of Physical Agents and Biohazards
    • Volume 4 covers environmental and health and safety program management
  • IGI Global publisher removal on August 5, 2022

    • IGI Global has decided to not renew their agreement with Knovel, and their content will be removed from Knovel on August 5, 2022.
    • The Pending Removals tab on Knovel contains a list of any titles that are scheduled for removal.
• Citations Export List Order

  • The order of the Citation Export types was updated to reflect the most preferred citation type to the top and descending.
    

• Engineering Newsfeed released to Knovel Labs

  • You can test out a new feature on Knovel where we provide an RSS feed updated hourly from ~25 feeds in four channels (Aerospace, Materials, Chemicals, Energy).

  • To see the RSS feature on Home, you can toggle on the experience here.

    

    

• New Mobile App Re-Launch

  

  • The Knovel ToGo Mobile App was completely re-created from scratch with native versions for iOS and Android, delivering an improved experience. The new App will launch around April 11, 2022, or sooner, pending on App Store submissions.
  • Existing iOS users will be automatically updated to the new App version.
  • Existing Android users will get a notice next time they launch the current App with a message re-directing them to install the new App version.
  • Learn more about Knovel ToGo here.

• New Net Zero Pages Highlighting Content

  • Knovel has added 3 new pages covering Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, featuring new and important resources on Knovel and links to search for more information:

    • Scope 1
    • Scope 2
    • Scope 3
• Faceted Search – New Author Facet

  • There is a new search facet for Author available on the Search Results page.

    

    If you click 'View All', you will get a full pop-up view to filter on all Authors available against your search term.

    

• Search Relevancy Information Tooltip

  • Users have asked how we rank by relevancy so we’ve added details about how relevancy is ranked for Search Results.

    

• Proof-of-Concept Work for Search API

  • Knovel has been laying the groundwork to provide a Search API for our Customers. If you’re an Administrator interested in beta testing our Search API, please contact Michael Crisler.

    

• Log4j Vulnerability Fix

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell
  • Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) was a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, involving arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has existed unnoticed since 2013 and was privately disclosed to the Apache Software Foundation, of which Log4j is a project, by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud's security team on November 24, 2021, and was publicly disclosed on December 09, 2021.
  • Knovel immediately mitigated updating our code base to remove this vulnerability once it was made public.

• Search Filters in Breadcrumbs

  • The Search breadcrumb will now reflect not only your query, but any facet selections which have been applied to the query such as Content Type, Concept or Date.

    

• Cover Images in Search Results

  • We have added the cover image of Technical References on the Search Results page as a visually quick way to identify a Title if you do not know the name but do know what the cover image looks like.

    

• Auto Unit Conversion within Tables

  • For the Unit Converter directly embedded within Tables, previously, you had to click '[OK]' for the change to take effect. Now, simply clicking on the new Unit will immediately convert the unit for you. The Unit selection window is also now freely movable on the page.

    

• Content Additions

  • Project Management Institute (PMI)

    • The new edition of the most used book for project engineers, The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) 7th Edition, is now available on Knovel.
    • Additional PMI Titles:

      • The Standard for Program Management — Fourth Edition
      • The Standard for Portfolio Management — Fourth Edition
      • Citizen Development: The Handbook for Creators and Changemakers
      • Choose Your WoW!
      • The PMI Guide to Business Analysis
      • Introduction to Disciplined Agile Delivery - Second Edition
      • Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures - Third Edition
  • ASHRAE update

    • Two key standards from ASHRAE were updated: 2021 ASHRAE Handbook – Fundamentals (I-P), and 2021 ASHRAE Handbook – Fundamentals (SI)

• Search Prefilter Drop-down on Home

  • You can now prefilter your search result on the Home page by selecting what type of content you are looking for.

  • You can select either: Title, Author, Publisher, Books and Chapters, Database, Equations, Graphs, and Table. Material Property Search will navigate you to the full Property Search experience.

    

• Browse Tools & Content Types

  • There is a new tab on the Browse page that highlights all of the Tools and Content Types available on Knovel.

  • Here you can quickly navigate to the Engineering Tools offered by Knovel, as well as see examples of our Content Types.

    

• New Coatings Database added to Knovel Corrosion

  • Covering more than 700 commercially available coatings from 200 suppliers, this Database provides users with practical information on coatings available for different applications, coating classes, vendor contact information, deposition method and post application treatments.

    

• New Product Offering: Corrosion Module

  • Knovel Corrosion launches commercially on September 30, 2021.
  • It includes Metals, Plastics/Elastomers, Case Studies content and data.
  • Coatings, isocorrosion graphs and corrosion calculators will be added by end of 2021.
  • Learn more.
• Faceted Search – New Date Facet

  • A new refinement filter is now available on the search results page to filter by the Publication Date of a technical reference.

    

• Easy Access to My Knovel from the Profile Drop-down

  • Registered Users with access to My Knovel, can easily access their My Knovel items from the Profile drop-down menu in the upper-right.

    

• Search History Saved in Browser Back Button

  • Clicking the Back button in your browser, now shows prior searches for easier navigation to quickly go back to prior searches.
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    NOW:

    

• Internet Explorer No Longer Supported

  • Due to the announcement by Microsoft, Knovel no longer supports Internet Explorer 11 or earlier browsers. Any users accessing Knovel with these unsupported browsers will get this splash page instructing them to update to a supported browser:

    

• Knovel Excel Add-in is No Longer Supported

  • You will no longer be able to download the Excel Add-in on Knovel.
  • If you’ve downloaded it in the past and it is working, it may eventually stop working and there will be no additional updates to resolve Bugs or issues.

• New Discovery Service/Catalog User Experience – Book Results

  • Users who access Knovel through a Discovery Service (EDS, Summon, TDNet) or a customer catalog using MARC records were previously taken to Knovel's Table of Contents page of the selected book.
  • Users accessing Knovel through a Discovery Service or catalog using MARC records to a book result (not a database, table, or section/chapter) will now be taken to the first page of the first chapter with Table of Contents expanded on Left.

  • Removes the need for extra clicks and provides direct access to Knovel-rich content with the Table of Contents on Left auto-expanded.

    

• "View All" Concept Facets Pop-up

  • Improvements were made to the View All Concept Filters experience by adding a pop-up instead of expanding a long list of terms that required scrolling down the page to see all available Concepts.

    

• Out of Subscription toggle is fixed

  • Organizations who have set their search results to default to their subscription only will now see their subscription by default on the Search Results page.

  • The state of the toggle, if changed by the user, will be persistent across their session.

    

• Embedded Tutorial Video for Property Search

  • To help guide users to better understand how to use this feature of Knovel, we’ve conveniently embedded the tutorial video directly on the page for easy access.

    

• Ability to add multiple Content Type and Concept filters to a single search query

  • In the following image, a search is shown in which the user has combined multiple Content Type selections with multiple Concept selections to enable refinement across multiple dimensions.

    

• Improved Property Search 

  • When filtering Properties in Property Search, if a match is made to a Property Synonym (what Knovel identifies as a variant way to identify that Property), the user is shown an informational message beneath the Property Find box. Matches made to Property Synonyms are signaled by an [S] (for Synonym) appended to the Property shown in the Property list, as shown in the following image.

    

• New Publishers, American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) and National Physical Library (NPL)

  • The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) is a global association for occupational safety and health professionals. With more than 36,000 members in 80 countries, ASSP is the preferred source for education among occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals. 12 ASSP resources have been added to Knovel, primarily in the Safety & Industrial Hygiene Subject Area, covering safety leadership, accident investigation, hazardous material handling, and fire protection.
  • National Physical Library, UK, is the UK's National Metrology Institute, developing and maintaining the national primary measurement standards. 22 best practice guides from NPL on corrosion control have been secured and will be added to Knovel in July 2021.
  • Access to the content depends on subscription and entitlements.
• New Browser Extension page

  • Check it out: https://app.knovel.com/kn/chrome-extension

    

• New DIPPR material search box

  • There’s a new compound search field called “quick substance lookup” in DIPPR.
  • The search box features an autosuggest returning a list of clickable compounds, or a list result.
  • The search returns a list of clickable compound names routing to the compound page.

  • o Check it out here.

    

• 'Try Knovel' Promotional Program Ending

  • The 'Try Knovel' promotional program provided Guest users access to a small selection of books (5) and much of the Knovel promotional materials in Knovel's collection as Demo.
  • This will end on May 07, 2021.

• Unit Conversion within Interactive Tables

  • You can now change the unit of measurement directly within a Table by clicking on the toggle.

  • If you are not satisfied with the results, you can revert to the original values by switching the toggle off.

    

• Embedding Knovel resource lists in an LMS or website

  • Most academic curricula are organized using a Learning Management System (LMS) such as Blackboard, Canvas, or Moodle. These LMS are where students go to access reading materials, instructional material, check schedules, take assessments, etc. Being able to take a list of resources built in Knovel and embed it in the LMS encourages educators to integrate Knovel resources into their classes increasing usage and stickiness.
  • Step by step instructions for embedding this code in Blackboard, Canvas and Moodle are included in the Promotional Toolkit.

    • Knovel provides an easy way for educators and collaborators to build resource lists for classes, projects, and trainings.
    • Sharing these lists is as easy as sending someone a link.
    • If you want to embed the list in a website or LMS, Knovel provides a simple HTML version of the folder item list for embedding in an LMS or website.
    • From My Knovel, select a folder, and click the 'Export for LMS' button to open a window with the simple HTML code. Either select and copy the code or click the 'Copy to Clipboard' button to copy the code to the clipboard.
    • Paste the code in HTML format to your LMS to add the folder items to your curriculum (see these instructions for Blackboard, Canvas, and Moodle.) Users can follow the Knovel link from the top of the list to add the folder to their My Knovel, even without a registered account.
• New My Folder/Save workflow

  • New 'Save' experience brings the saved items into the workflow of the user as they’re researching on Knovel. Lists can now be built contextually as the research is performed, and can be used to navigate the saved items and folders without having to return to My Knovel.
  • New 'My Folder' button in left toolbar will open the 'Save' panel.
  • When on a page where there's content or a search that can be saved, you can add the item or search term by clicking 'Add this Resource'.
  • The panel can be repositioned anywhere on the page by dragging it from its top bar and putting it where you want it to go. This is useful if the user wants the panel open, but it's blocking the piece of content they’re referring to.

• Easier sharing, with registered and unregistered Knovel users

  

  • Share an item using the Share button from any Search page, Contents, or while viewing any piece of content.
  • At the top is a short link that can be simply copied and sent to others, which will bring them to the shared item.
  • From within the My Folder panel there is an option get a sharable link which will share the entire folder and all items in it with others, including Knovel subscribers without a registered account.