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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31
Mar

Over 35 major enhancements further streamline the implementation and maintenance of MetaLib, reducing the total cost of ownership and providing even more flexible integration options

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25
Mar

The Minnesota Office of Enterprise Technology’s web site will be the first to utilize the integration of Vivisimo’s Velocity Search Platform(TM) into a new content management system.  The project will showcase the capabilities of Velocity as well as the content management system, with the ultimate goal of indexing the nearly one million pages of state content, federated search of external web sites, and making the information available through a single search box for public-facing sites and on intranet and extranets for state employees and the public.
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9
Mar
Summary AquaBrowser Library has been chosen by the Harvard University Library, the largest academic library worldwide, as its search and discovery platform. The AquaBrowser implementation will include faceted navigation, word cloud discovery, relevancy ranking, an integrated Authority File, real-time availability information for items, and integration with the ILS for patron services such as placing holds, making requests, viewing checkouts, and renewing items.

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4
Mar

SANTA FE, N.M., March 4 /PRNewswire/ - Deep Web Technologies launched their advanced alerts service in scitopia.org, the free, federated search portal powered by Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator(TM). Scitopia.org Alerts delivers science and engineering content of interest to users through email and RSS feeds automatically, rather than forcing users to come to scitopia.org to perform searches themselves. The service makes it easy for users to stay current on research from the deep web libraries of major science and engineering societies, such as IEEE, Institute of Physics, American Physical Society as well as patent databases and government sources.

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24
Feb


SANTA FE, N.M., Feb. 24, 2008 — Deep Web Technologies (http://www.deepwebtech.com) has announced that Larry Donahue recently joined its executive staff as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Corporate Counsel. Larry brings over 15 years of direct leadership experience to Deep Web Technologies, combining a broad range of strategic planning, financial and legal expertise with a specific focus on software marketing. In his new role, Larry will advise on legal matters while driving the organization forward with a practical, attentive management style.

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7
Feb

Innovative Medical Site Uses Search to Improve Point-of-Care Decisions

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ — Vivisimo (vivisimo.com), a leader in enterprise search, recently published a case study describing how its Velocity Search Platform(TM) helps health-care practitioners deliver faster and better decisions while delivering care to patients.

The case study details Vivisimo’s application for Epocrates Inc., (http://www.epocrates.com/), which develops clinical information and decision support tools that enable healthcare professionals to find answers more quickly and confidently at the point of care. More than 500,000 healthcare professionals, including one in four U.S. physicians, use Epocrates.

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