Digital content products and technologies provider ebrary, US, has announced the launch of a service called DASH! for its Academic Complete subscribers. The service is expected to allow subscribers to quickly and easily upload, integrate and share an unlimited number of their own PDF documents from their computers. The new feature is seen to increase the value of the company’s flagship subscription e-book database, which offers multi-user access to a multidisciplinary selection of more than 45,100 titles along with research capabilities including InfoTools.
ebrary will unveil DASH! at the ALA Midwinter Conference and will be using the technology to create collections on a variety of topics including autism, natural disasters and breast cancer. The collections will be publicly available after ALA, similar to ebrary’s H1N1 (Influenza) Information Research Center at http://h1n1.ebrary.com/home.action.
Currently in beta, DASH! is projected to enable authorised librarians to easily upload individual PDF files or batches of documents along with corresponding metadata from the convenience of their own computers. Documents are almost instantaneously added to a new collection that seamlessly integrates with Academic Complete as well as other ebrary products and services.
Collections created with DASH! include all of ebrary’s existing functionality for discovering and managing information online, such as InfoTools, which turns every word into a portal to other online resources of the library’s choice; highlighting and annotating; multiple search options; and personal bookshelves.
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