Category Archives: access platforms

ProQuest’s new platform to provide single-point access to ProQuest content

July 9, 2009 – 8:44 am

Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, is leveraging its extensive research of end-users, librarians and faculty search behaviours to drive the creation of an all-new platform that will redefine search experience for library users worldwide. To be available in 2010, the new platform will facilitate and simplify access to the broad range of authoritative [...]

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Project MUSE News: MUSE Adds More Search Features

July 3, 2009 – 11:21 am

Project MUSE is excited to announce two new features that help users more easily locate articles relevant to their research. MUSE also introduces a new option to custom print and package articles in MUSE journals.
The new features are:
- A ‘Search this Journal’ search box. This search box appears on each journal’s home page, on [...]

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ACM Digital Library Bulletin Service June 2009

July 2, 2009 – 1:46 pm

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I. ACM Digital Library to Migrate to New Usage Statistics Platform
II. Publication News
III. ACM Digital Library Bulletin Service to Re-Launch in Fall 2009
IV. Publication Schedules and Resources
V. Recently Loaded Content in the ACM Digital Library and Guide

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Search User Interfaces

June 30, 2009 – 10:35 am

nbsp;http://searchuserinterfaces.com/book/
To make this book available to as many readers as possible, the author, with permission of Cambridge University Press, has placed the full text online free of charge. See the terms of service on the right.
1: Design of Search User Interfaces
2: Evaluation of Search User Interfaces
3: Models of the Information Seeking Process
4: Query Specification
5: [...]

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New EBSCOhost® Enabling Technology Makes its Debut

June 30, 2009 – 10:02 am

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~ Search and Retrieval Improvements Added to the EBSCOhost® Platform Include Natural Language Searching to Greatly Enhance the User Experience ~
IPSWICH, Mass. —June 26, 2009 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has launched new display and searching technology designed to improve the user experience. The new system supports natural language searching for scientific formulas and provides users [...]

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More ProQuest Platform Enhancements

June 29, 2009 – 3:23 pm

Dear ProQuest Customer,
We are pleased to announce that two more exciting new enhancements will soon be available to our valued ProQuest customers:
New Browse Functionality
During our maintenance window on 27 June 2009, a new browse tab will be added to ABI/INFORM™ to help users quickly find and zero in on highly sought information [...]

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Gale’s Product Update Bulletin – June 2009

June 26, 2009 – 11:31 am

Gale PowerSearch 2.0 Now Available
Since its launch in 2002, the Gale PowerSearch platform has offered comprehensive access to authoritative reference, periodical and primary source information. Gale has incorporated new enhancements, creating Gale PowerSearch 2.0, a platform providing even greater ease and giving more power to the user.
Gale PowerSearch 2.0 simplifies browsing through Gale’s more than [...]

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JSTOR Update | June 22, 2009

June 23, 2009 – 10:18 am

Faceted Searching to be Added to JSTOR
JSTOR will introduce a new “faceted search” feature in early July. The faceted search will offer a number of different options to expand and refine search results. Faceted searching and search results will allow you to easily visualize how the returned articles are distributed among categories, or “facets.” For [...]

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JSTOR Update | June 16 , 2009

June 17, 2009 – 11:23 am

Multidisciplinary and Discipline-Specific Collections at JSTOR
The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. More detailed information about all JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.
Arion (Arts & Sciences V)
 http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublicat…
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1962) – Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter, 1970);
New Series, [...]

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HighWire expands integrated books and journals program

May 29, 2009 – 1:26 pm

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Stanford, California – May 27, 2009 – HighWire Press announced today a marked increase in the growth of its books program, with over 30 new titles launched online so far this year and hundreds more scheduled through 2009 and early 2010.
For many years, HighWire has developed and hosted non-journal content, such as books, reference works, [...]

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