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Information Today December 3, 2009 |
Serials Solutions Completes Beta Testing of New 360 Search The new service, which will be commercially released in mid-December, combines the best features of the Serials Solutions 360 Search and WebFeat platforms with new and improved capabilities.  |
Information Today March 25, 2010 |
Summon Discovery Service Adds Database Recommender Feature ProQuest's Serials Solutions (www.serialssolutions.com) has added a new feature to its Summon web-scale discovery service that leads searchers to specialized databases in a library's collection.  |
Information Today January 17, 2008 |
WebFeat Unveils New Tools for Libraries This provider of federated search technologies, has unveiled version 2.0 of its SMART Usage Tracker.  |
Information Today June 28, 2010 |
ProQuest Unveils New Technologies for its Upcoming Platform The new platform will now include ProQuest Extended Search, a Serials Solutions technology that will enable libraries to connect to other non-ProQuest databases as well.  |
Information Today January 26, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources  |
Information Today October 20, 2008 |
Serials Solutions Enhances Its 360 E-Resource Access and Management Services For librarians, this means an increased number of resources available by federated search and better search results for patrons.  |
Information Today July 13, 2009 Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest Proposes Pathway to New Platform ProQuest announced an "all-new platform" that would "redefine the search experience for library users around the world." The platform, which is as yet unnamed, will be introduced sometime in the first half of 2010.  |
Information Today February 2, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Works to Integrate Assets and Services Last summer, ProQuest welcomed Kurt Sanford as its new CEO. He has now had 6 months leading the company and has already made his mark with a reorganization of leadership, new customer focus, and product migrations and integrations.  |
Information Today June 3, 2010 |
Serials Solutions Developing Access Control Service Access Control Service will simplify the process of accessing library resources from remote locations, combine data management with access control, and eliminate the current requirement for IT resources to implement and manage this service.  |
Information Today October 2003 Paula Hane |
The Truth About Federated Searching WebFeat, a provider of federated search technology to more than 900 public, academic, and corporate libraries, including more than half of the top 10 U.S. public libraries, has compiled this list of the five most commonly repeated misconceptions about federated searching.  |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2009 Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes.  |
Information Today December 8, 2008 |
Serials Solutions Launches Online Community The community features forums, discussion boards, private messaging, RSS feeds, and more.  |
Information Today July 25, 2011 Marydee Ojala |
Kurt Sanford Replaces Marty Kahn as ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn handed over the CEO reins of ProQuest to Kurt Sanford, a 14-year veteran of LexisNexis, on July 13, 2011. Kahn will move on to the post of vice chairman of ProQuest's Board of Directors.  |
Information Today June 30, 2011 |
Serials Solutions Developing New Web-Scale Management Solution The new Serials Solutions service will address the industry's fundamental shift to electronic content, while still supporting librarians' needs to manage their print and local collections.  |
Information Today March 5, 2007 |
ProQuest CSA's Marketing Toolkit for Public Libraries Makes Its Debut ProQuest CSA just launched a free Library Marketing Toolkit for public librarians, who are facing many challenges today.  |
Information Today November 6, 2008 |
ProQuest Introduces Redesigned Website Among the key features of new site are the ProQuest Support Center, a more powerful search engine, and an all-new product access feature that directs end users to library gateways.  |
Information Today June 3, 2014 Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features.  |
Information Today April 1, 2013 Barbara Quint |
Serials Solutions' Summon 2.0 Coming in June One of the most popular discovery engines -- Summon from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company -- should be getting even more popular this summer. A new, substantially enhanced version will begin replacing the current version.  |
Information Today April 26, 2012 |
Serials Solutions Announces Intota Development Partners Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business unit, announced the institutions that are collaborating with the company to develop Intota, a Software-as-a-Service solution that supports the entire resource lifecycle for libraries.  |
Information Today March 12, 2009 |
Serials Solutions' Summon Service Adds Content and Development Partners The new beta site and content additions are part of the Summon service's aggressive growth and development program in preparation for its launch mid-year.  |
Information Today August 2000 |
Sagebrush Corp. Unveils New Serials Manager Program Sagebrush Corp., a solutions provider for the education and library markets, has announced the release of Serials Manager, a stand-alone program designed to streamline management of magazines, journals, and other periodicals in all types of libraries  |
Information Today February 10, 2003 |
News Digest WebFeat Announces WebFeat 2 Technology... News from SPARC... OneSource Expands Industry Coverage  |
Information Today April 5, 2010 Kathy Dempsey |
Serials Solutions Launches SaaS Version of AquaBrowser AquaBrowser is still billed as an "inviting, easy, intuitive" interface that "meets the demands and expectations of today's web-wise user (or impatient novices) who want immediate results and relevant content from a variety of sources  |
Information Today December 2004 |
Letters to the Editor Federated Searching Fact Check... The OA Battle Marches On...  |
Information Today November 16, 2009 |
Serials Solutions Announces New Ebooks Metadata Normalization Process To enable normalization of ebooks metadata, Serials Solutions metadata librarians have developed algorithms that efficiently aggregate and authoritatively link data from all available sources.  |
Information Today October 2007 Kahn & Dunie |
To bq, From ProQuest The founders of ProQuest CSA discuss their insights, thoughts, and plans after their recent merger.  |
Information Today March 4, 2013 |
OCLC and ProQuest Collaborate to Enhance Library Discovery Metadata will be shared across some of the world's most-widely used library resources, enriching the discoverability and comprehensiveness of all the services.  |
Information Today December 3, 2013 |
Intota Assessment Streamlines Library Analytics Intota Assessment gives libraries a total picture of their monographs and serials in electronic and print formats so they can make data-driven decisions about collection development.  |
Information Today September 24, 2009 |
SirsiDynix Announces General Availability of Enterprise 3.0 Enterprise 3.0 offers users a single search well to discover all resources the library makes available. Those resources might include one or more library catalogs, digital collections, selected websites, and federated resources.  |
Information Today January 5, 2009 |
Serials Solutions Introduces Resource Manager Consortium Edition Now consortia can manage holdings, subscription, licensing, contact, and cost information for their group and streamline delivery of information to all group members.  |
Information Today January 27, 2003 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Begins Its Integration of bigchalk The takeover of the digital learning resource provider for the K-12 education market provides ProQuest with a collection of new licensed content as well as some interesting technological and interface improvements.  |
Information Today January 28, 2008 |
Serials Solutions Launches Enhanced 360 Services Serials Solutions has introduced KnowledgeWorks, a new name for the foundation integrated into every one of the Serials Solutions 360 e-resource access, management, and assessment services.  |
Information Today March 2003 |
Product News and Reviews ITI Publishes New Book, Renames Journal... The Accidental Systems Librarian... ISTA... ProQuest Enhances Information Products... Historical Newspapers... etc.  |
Information Today December 26, 2006 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Information and Learning Goes to CSA: What Now? ProQuest Information and Learning, the bulk of ProQuest Co., and one of the nation's oldest and largest database aggregators has been sold to Cambridge Information Group.  |
Information Today October 2008 Britt & Bauer |
ProQuest: Adding Dialog to the Mix The history and development ProQuest and its acquisition of Dialog, including Dialog's ProQuest unit.  |
Information Today January 13, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Acquires Ebook Pioneer ebrary With the goal to "accelerate the process of serious research," ProQuest has acquired ebrary, a respected, pioneering ebook provider to libraries and corporations.  |
Information Today October 13, 2015 Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest to Acquire Ex Libris Group In a move that caught most of the library world by surprise, on Oct. 6, 2015, ProQuest announced its intention to acquire Israel-based Ex Libris Group from private equity company Golden Gate Capital.  |
Information Today September 23, 2010 |
Web of Science Now Available With Summon Web-Scale Discovery Service Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, announced the integration of content from the Thomson Reuters' subscription-based Web of Science service with its Summon web-scale discovery service.  |
Searcher June 2010 |
The Care and Feeding of Vendors How can we info pros working for clients, especially those of us working in libraries with still influential budgets, push, prod, coax, urge, nudge, nag, coerce, lure, whatever, our vendor partners toward the light?  |
Information Today October 6, 2015 |
EBSCO Rolls Out 2016 Serials Price Projections EBSCO Information Services introduced its "Serials Price Projections for 2016," which notes that the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and medical libraries is expected to be 4%-6%.  |
Information Today July 25, 2011 |
Serials Solutions Releases Coverage Analysis of Summon Discovery Service Serials Solutions released a new list of key databases and packages, as well as updated comprehensive lists of the serials titles and publishers available in the Summon index, providing librarians with even greater visibility into the quality content indexed in the Summon service.  |
Information Today November 19, 2015 Corilee Christou |
ProQuest Enhancements: Users First It's been 7 years since ProQuest acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters. At that time, librarians worldwide were either exhilarated or dismayed.  |
Information Today July 7, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services.  |
Information Today January 16, 2014 |
ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections.  |
Information Today October 25, 2012 |
Serials Solutions' E-Resource Manager Adds JISC Collections License Data Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company, is working with JISC Collections to save librarians time and to increase access to the licenses negotiated by JISC Collections for NESLi2, databases, and archives.  |
Information Today October 2, 2014 |
ProQuest's Collections Are Now Discoverable Through Primo Ex Libris Group agreed to index 200-plus ProQuest databases -- such as ProQuest Central and ABI/INFORM -- in the Primo Central Index so they can be found via the Primo discovery service.  |
Information Today October 23, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest Blackwell and ebrary Partner to Deliver E-Books... WebFeat Launches Solution for Multilibrary Networks... Ovid to Offer Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) Journal Legacy Archive...  |
Information Today November 26, 2007 |
Serials Solutions Launches 360 Counter Assessment Service Designed to help libraries evaluate the usage and cost of e-resources, Serials Solutions announced the launch of the 360 Counter e-resource assessment service.  |
Information Today March 18, 2013 Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Takes Over Library Marketing for NewspaperARCHIVE.com: Turmoil and Tumult ProQuest plans to re-package the NewspaperARCHIVE.com content and re-price it. In the course of gathering information on the new arrangement, ProQuest changed product plans dramatically in just a few days. However, one thing was clear: Prices for libraries will really change.  |
Information Today January 24, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Top Vendors' Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Library funding issues took center stage at ALA Midwinter, along with topics from vendors such as continued commitment to library-only products and services, continued coverage of traditional content, and enhancements of existing products and services.  |