August 9, 2005
Newton, MA
Ex Libris is pleased to be the first vendor to open up the ISI Web of Knowledge platform via their new search configuration within MetaLib®s Central KnowledgeBase. Mutual customers of both Ex Libris and Thomson Scientific will now be able to conduct a MetaSearch™ on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform from within their librarys portal. Thomson expects over 100,000 users daily to benefit from the XML gateway.
Reynold Guida, Director of Product Development for Thomson Scientific, stated, Academic institutions are usually the first point of contact for most scholars and by enabling access to the ISI Web of Knowledge Platform as an additional channel, we expect to provide users with a whole new search experience. Mr. Guida added, We have enjoyed a positive history of collaborating with Ex Libris to help meet the changing needs of our mutual customers and we are both committed to providing patrons with the most comprehensive and robust tools to enable their research.
Chris Roberts, Ex Libris Product Manager for MetaLib KnowledgeBase said, We are delighted to be the first MetaSearch provider to offer users the ability to search Thomson Scientifics Web Services. By collaborating on the development of the XML gateway and adding this new configuration to MetaLibs KnowledgeBase, both Ex Libris and Thomson customers can now download and search on Web of Science and other databases within the Web of Knowledge platform, which delivers significant value to our mutual customers.
MetaLib is presently installed in 485 customer sites world-wide.
About Thomson Scientific:
Thomson Scientific information solutions include, ISI Web of KnowledgeSM facilitating discovery by offering seamless navigation to high-quality, multidisciplinary journal (Web of Science®), patent (Derwent World Patents Index®), and Web content, evaluation tools, and bibliographic management products (EndNote®); Thomson PharmaSM-an integrated information solution for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets; Delphion® providing access to full-text patent documents from the world’s leading patent authorities; Techstreet offering a wide variety of engineering codes and standards; BIOSIS Previews® the world’s most comprehensive reference database for life science research; and Information Holdings Inc.-a leading provider of intellectual property and regulatory information products and services for professional end users in corporate and legal markets.
For additional information on Thomson Scientific, please see www.scientific.thomson.com
About Ex Libris:
Ex Libris is a leading worldwide developer and provider of high-performance applications for libraries, information centers, and researchers. ALEPH, the Ex Libris integrated library solution has been installed at over 1250 sites in 52 countries. MetaLib®, the information portal for library collections and SFX, the content-sensitive linking solution for heterogeneous electronic resources in the scholarly information environment, have collectively been purchased by more than 831 institutions in 36 countries. DigiTool, a solution for the construction of digital collections, and Verde, the new electronic resource management (ERM) system, round out the Ex Libris product suite.
