Elsevier announces Asia and Pacific availability of illumin8 - April 3, 2009
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the Asia and Pacific (APAC) availability of illumin8, a Web-based natural language processing solution designed to help corporate research professionals answer complex R&D questions with greater speed and effectiveness. illumin8 extracts key relationships across the breadth of Elsevier's premium scientific… Read More
AquaBrowser search platform to be implemented by Harvard University Library - March 16, 2009
Medialab Solutions, a US-based provider of library software, has announced that the Harvard University Library is to implement AquaBrowser Library, its search and discovery platform, in spring 2009. Medialab is part of bibliographic information provider R. R. Bowker. The Harvard University Library implementation will include faceted… Read More
Deep Web Technologies launches advanced alerts service in Scitopia.org - March 6, 2009
Federated search services provider Deep Web Technologies, US, has launched their advanced alerts service in Scitopia.org, the free, federated search portal powered by Deep Web Technologies' Explorit Research Accelerator. Scitopia.org Alerts delivers science and engineering content of interest to users through email and RSS feeds automatically,… Read More
Larry Donahue named COO and Corporate Counsel at Deep Web Technologies - February 26, 2009
Federated search services provider Deep Web Technologies (http://www.deepwebtech.com), US, has announced that Larry Donahue recently joined its executive staff as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Corporate Counsel. Donahue brings over 15 years of direct leadership experience, combining a broad range of strategic planning, financial and legal… Read More
TriUniversity Group of Libraries goes live with Ex Libris’ Primo discovery and delivery solution - February 25, 2009
Library solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that the TriUniversity Group of Libraries (TUG) in Ontario, Canada, has gone live with a public beta version of the Primo discovery and delivery solution. TUG is a consortium of three university libraries - the University of… Read More
GlobalSpec to provide enhanced search capabilities to appliance DESIGN website - February 9, 2009
Specialised vertical search, information services and e-publishing company GlobalSpec, US, has announced that it has entered into a partnership with appliance DESIGN, a magazine providing solutions for design and engineering teams in the global residential and commercial appliance industry. For more than… Read More
Bioalma launches free online search tool for biomedical literature - February 5, 2009
Biomedical IT/text-mining company Bioalma, Spain, has reportedly launched a free search tool called novo|seek for the PubMed literature database. The company claims that the new tool provides intelligent search functionalities to help life scientists guide and refine their searches of biomedical literature. novo|seek is projected as… Read More
ProQuest launches free search widgets for products on its Illumina platform - January 28, 2009
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, has launched free search widgets for products on its CSA Illumina platform, including a widget for its CSA Illustrata product line. The CSA Illumina and CSA Illustrata Search Widgets - portable search boxes - allow instant searching of these acclaimed… Read More
Serials Solutions launches new discovery service - January 21, 2009
Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest, US, has launched a new service that will create Google-like searching of the full breadth of content found in library collections - from books and videos to e-resources at the article level. The new Summon unified discovery service is… Read More
Alabama University unveils semantic search engine for environmental scientists - January 15, 2009
The University of Alabama in Huntsville has developed a new semantic web search engine to help environmental scientists retrieve the research data they need. Called Noesis, the new search engine is claimed to have the potential to help scientists and researchers in many other fields perform more focused and productive… Read More
