Your patrons are focused on the task at hand, whether it is
pharmaceutical development, maintaining picture archives or
art
collections, or managing the information resources for a government
agency. You may be dealing with the special requirements of
a law
library or a theological library. Your budget is limited by
ROI
considerations from corporate finance or congressional committees.
If you are a corporate librarian, your users concentrate on
primary
research journals and they expect those articles to appear
at their
desktop. You may have never met your regular customers face-to-face,
but
you know what they need and when they need it.
If you manage special collections, such as image libraries
or historical
archives, you need tools that accommodate electronic content,
printed
materials, photographs and art objects. You may need to implement
internally-developed cataloging methods in a computer-based
system.
Endeavor products enable you to take control of your library's
assets
and make them available as a valuable resource for your institution.
Discovery: Finder™
With print and electronic resources on-site or at remote locations,
searching has become complicated. And with extended resources
comes
search results that may overwhelm the user. Finder enables
users to
search across multiple resources with a single query in any
language on
a single interface. From the plain language query, a sophisticated
analysis engine takes over.
- An automatic abstract of each item is returned, with automatic
keyword generation and alerting.
- Results are categorized and clustered. The user can then
click
the citations in a cluster to zero in on relevant information.
Discovery: Resolver™
You have worked to provide your patrons with a broad selection
of resources. They know how to search across many sources,
especially if they are using Discovery: Finder, but they need
to get to full-text articles. Discovery: Resolver makes these
connections transparent, taking the user from OpenURL and non-OpenURL
sources directly to full-text sources, using context-sensitive
links.
Journals Onsite™
Your library has decided to bring electronic journal storage
in-house. Now you have to manage those journals and provide
access to your patrons. You need a simple, consistent interface
to the complete collection, regardless of publisher or format.
And you will need lots of capacity. Journals Onsite delivers:
- Standard, widely-accepted methods for browsing and article
presentation.
- Alphabetical listings, multiple subject-category levels.
- A Customer Usability Tested interface, providing an optimized
user experience.
- No known capacity limitations.
Curator™
Your company is generating lots of information, whether it
is highly proprietary technical communications, internal financial
information subject to Sarbanes-Oxley, or image, audio and
video content. How will you provide browsing, searching and
viewing of those resources, with appropriate access controls?
Curator is a flexible, scalable solution to digital resource
management.
Curator provides:
- The ability to define multiple Virtual Collections.
- Support for local metadata formats defined by a Document
Type Definition - including Dublin Core and Encoded Archival
Description - or
any other DTD.
- Integrated searching across content in both the OPAC and
the
local digital catalog using the FAST Data Search Engine™.
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