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Increasing Access is Worthy Goal

By Melody Smith | September 11, 2013

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, have agreed to make Gale databases and archives discoverable through EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS).

New Release Increases Findability

By Melody Smith | August 30, 2013

Instem has released version 8.4 of its Sequence Retrieval System (SRS). This data integration platform is scalable and used in over 300 sites, both commercial and academic. Version 8.4 includes support for indexing data using Apache Lucene technology. Geeks World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Instem Releases Next Version of SRS Data Integration Platform.”

Natural Language Doesn’t Always Come Naturally

By Melody Smith | August 19, 2013 |

One of our goals in creating taxonomies and thesauri is to express the concepts in natural language. Natural language means that you have written it the way somebody would say it. We don’t invert it.

Project Increases Access for Research

By Melody Smith | August 14, 2013

A new joint initiative launched by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will help researchers have access to improved metadata and new tools as they search through and analyze the General Social Survey (GSS) and the American National Election Studies (ANES). The two-year project, named Metadata Portal for the Social Sciences, is supported by a collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Handling Storage and Access Issues

By Melody Smith | July 25, 2013

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has unveiled solutions and services to help enterprises adopt cloud computing to address the oh so familiar demands of big data, access, etc. This interesting news was found on Silicon India in their article, “Hitachi Unveils Cloud Solutions And Services.”

Recognition for Semantic Technology

By Melody Smith | June 27, 2013

FeedBooster has been awarded a “Best Of 2013″ solution in Knowledge Management by Initiative Mittelstand. FeedBooster’s web-based feed reader is powered by Q-Sensei’s search and indexing technology.

EBSCO Adds Databases

By Melody Smith | June 24, 2013

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) has added content from Arabic content service provider Al Manhal. This includes ebooks, ejournals, e-reports, and e-dissertations databases.

Semantic Technologies Achieve Findability

By Melody Smith | June 11, 2013

Elsevier has announced an investment in a new online platform and management system for its 500+ health, medical and life sciences journal-branded custom websites. The new online platform will provide improved search results accuracy, a more robust editorial tool to create topical article collections, and an improved reading experience for visitors using mobile devices.

New Resources Available

By Melody Smith | June 3, 2013

Serials Solutions is working with Teton Data Systems (TDS) to make the premier healthcare e-resource STAT!Ref discoverable via the Summon service.

Making Data Accessible

By Melody Smith | May 27, 2013

EBSCO and Data-Planet have reached an agreement that will put statistical DataSheetsthat within a discovery service. This growing collection of more than 5,000 summary-level data records from Data-Planet will be available within EBSCO Discovery Service allowing mutual customers to link directly to Data-Planet DataSheets.