Information solutions provider
LexisNexis, US, has announced that it will unveil the new LexisNexis Academic search service prototype during the American Library Association meeting to be held in New Orleans from June 24-27, 2006. The new service is slated for launch in mid-2007, with a beta release available in January 2007.
The new service will have new features and functionalities, emulating the Nexis Service, which was launched in early 2006 for the corporate and federal marketplace. The redesign makes search easier for students as well as new users, who are only experienced with mainstream search engines. While users will still have access to the original collection of news, legal and business information, they now gain an enhanced source selection, allowing them to search across broad areas of content in a single search for a big-picture view. As a result of the new interface and enhancements to the proprietary LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology, search results will be displayed in organised and easy-to-interpret category clusters. These results can be classified and filtered by subject, industry, or company.
Special adaptations for the academic market include enhanced interoperability to support the systems that libraries use to improve information access, such as link resolvers, federated search and bibliographic software.
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