Archive for April, 2009

23
Apr

EBSCO Discovery Service will harvest metadata from internal and external sources, creating a centralized pre-indexed service of unprecedented size and speed

Ipswich, MA (PRWEB) April 22, 2009 — EBSCO is announcing the creation of a new discovery layer designed to be the most comprehensive online research service in the industry. This new system will harvest metadata from internal and external sources, creating a centralized pre-indexed service of unprecedented size and speed. EBSCO Discovery Service™ will provide libraries with a single, simple entry point for research and launch users into the entire array of a library’s collection. The new service is expected by the end of the calendar year.

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15
Apr


  • April 14, 2009
    Serials Solutions Signs Beta Partner WMU and New Content Providers for the Summon™ Unified Discovery Service

    IEEE, Brill, IGI, and Australian presses bring new content to rapidly expanding service

  • Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, has signed Western Michigan University as a beta development site for its new Summon™ unified discovery service. New content providers will also participate. Among them are IEEE, the world’s pre-eminent engineering society, information technology publisher IGI-Global, international scholarly publishing leader Brill and a pair of Australian presses that expand the service’s local coverage. The Summon™ service’s contributors, which include the massive content resources of ProQuest and Gale, have expanded to more than 80. Harvested content now exceeds 400 million records in preparation for the service’s July launch.

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15
Apr
Summary Serials Solutions announced the release of enhanced Full-Text and Peer Review features for the Serials Solutions 360 Search federated search service. Using a combination of data supplied by the Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks knowledgebase and the Ulrich’s Global Serials Intelligence knowledgebase, these search filters enable users to limit the results of queries to full-text or peer-reviewed sources more reliably than ever before.

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1
Apr

CHICAGO, Mar 31, 2009 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) —-Today, Adhere Solutions (www.adheresolutions.com), a certified Google Enterprise Partner, announced that its All Access Connector for the Google Search Appliance now includes instant connectivity to over 30 popular enterprise content management systems, including EMC, Documentum, eRoom, IBM FileNet, Lotus Notes, Interwoven’s TeamSite and Work Site, Microsoft Sharepoint, Opentext, Oracle Stellent, Xerox Docushare and more.

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