ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, US, has announced plans to significantly expand the content searched by CSA Illustrata, a cornerstone in the company's strategy to make serious bibliographic searching more precise and efficient. Under the initiative, the digital research tool, which uncovers data 'hidden' in the illustrations and tables in scholarly journals, will be expanded to offer a Technology collection, improving the quality of research on virtually any technological topic. Key subject areas in CSA Illustrata: Technology will include aerospace, engineering, high technology, and materials science.
Released in early 2007 with a Natural Sciences module, CSA Illustrata launched a patent-pending process of deep web indexing, which surfaces relevant content by first extracting tables, charts and other illustrations from journal articles and then indexes it so it can be retrieved through a common search. The release of CSA Illustrata: Technology will apply that same granular indexing and categorising to graphics contained in key technological journals from Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge University Press, EDP Sciences, Elsevier, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, IGI Global (Idea Group), IOS Press, National Research Council of Canada, Oxford University Press, and Trans Tech Publications Inc.
CSA Illustrata was developed over the course of two years and in conjunction with end-users, researchers and librarians.
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