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Product Update Sessions

Product update sessions are 45-minute presentations that offer an in depth look at features and benefits of a new exhibitor product or service.  Join the exhibitors below in the Product Update Session Theater in the exhibit hall and learn about cutting-edge products and services available to academic and research librarians.
Location: Exhibit Halls A-D, Product Update Session Theater

Friday, March 30

10:15 - 11:00 a.m.
ELSEVIER
Database Updates: Scopus + eBooks on ScienceDirect
Learn about Scopus (www.info.scopus.com), the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Scopus is designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process. Updated daily, Scopus offers:  over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers; over 12,850 academic journals including coverage of 500 Open Access journals; 700 conference proceedings; 600 trade publications; 28 million abstracts; 245 million references, added to all abstracts; results from 250 million scientific web pages; 13 million patent records from 4 patent offices; and seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources.  This presentation will also explore ScienceDirect (www.info.scopus.com), which is used by millions of scientists to access a quarter of the world's STM journal articles online. But leading researchers need quick and reliable access to all the relevant discoveries and analysis, whether it is published in a journal or not. That's why ScienceDirect is talking books.  In addition to the reference works, handbooks and book series already available on the platform, ScienceDirect will launch 4,000 books online in 2007.  Covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, including those published under the renowned Pergamon and Academic Press imprints, these additional 4,000 books will be fully integrated with the existing books and journals on ScienceDirect.  Over 50 books will be added each month following the 2007 launch.
  
3:45 - 4:30 p.m.
INNOVATIVE INTERFACES
Introduction to Encore
Encore is the new discovery services platform that transforms users' experience of the online library. Powered by Innovative Interfaces, Encore will bring the latest Library 2.0 features to your library, including faceted search results by location, material type, and more; community tagging; Popular Choices that reflect items of particular interest; federated-search results; and link-resolver paths to full-text. Plus a single search that brings it all together: content, community, and discovery. It's all right here. For more information see www.iii.com/encore or write sales@iii.com.  Visit Innovative at booth #549.

Saturday, March 31

9:30 – 10:15 a.m
THOMSON SCIENTIFIC
ISI Web of Knowledge: Creating Innovative Research Pathways
ISI Web of KnowledgeSM provides an advanced gateway to the world’s greatest collection of academic and scientific research.  The next generation of ISI Web of Knowledge, developed extensively through market research, user-focused design and development collaborations and powered by a new graphical user interface, will soon enable users of all levels of experience to intuitively search, discover and organize premier scholarly research. Patented behind-the-scenes technology unites with current indexing capabilities in order to form innovative research workflow pathways to relevant information and sources and contribute to ongoing powerful and flexible content delivery, expanded search capabilities and enhanced analytical functionality.

2:00 – 2:45 p.m.
SPRINGER
eBooks Collection
This presentation will comprise an overview of Springer’s new eBooks Collection and the features and benefits of the re-launched SpringerLink platform, illustrating both product information and benefits to the librarian. The collection includes online access to more than 3,000 newly released STM books each year. Available through SpringerLink’s IP-enabled eBook gateway, libraries can offer their patrons online access to the most worthwhile books instantly from multiple locations. Springer eBook Collections offer accurate reproductions of high quality Springer print books, with simplified and improved browsing and search functionalities, as well as a new guided navigation search engine, on the new SpringerLink.

3:45 – 4:30 p.m.
ALEXANDER STREET PRESS
Using Web 2.0 to Elevate Studies in the Humanities
Web 2.0 is on everyone's minds these days, but few universities, libraries, or publishers have been able to truly realize the value of this new technology.  In this product demonstration, Greg Urquhart from Alexander Street Press will discuss new products in music, drama, film, and history that use Web 2.0 technologies to enhance study, research, and scholarship across a range of disciplines.
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