Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Providing Leadership in Deep Indexing Helle Lauridsen Technology Manager, Proquest CSA LIDA, Dubrovnik May 30 th 2007

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Searching CSA Illustrata You can enter the database through the traditional abstracts search interface, or directly When using the traditional abstracts interface, the search results will be flagged to indicate objects are available Advanced searches in both options will allow you to search within figure captions, article vs. object descriptors, and so on.

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Reasons Why Data Are Hidden Continued… 3. Data can be hidden within a large result set  A search for wind stress and Pacific produces: a) >1,900 generally valuable results or…. b) or a highly targeted subset vs.

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Deep Indexing Of Data Summaries Would Make Them Visible And Retrievable Deep Indexing involves:  Identification of tables and figures (images, charts, maps, etc.) found within a scholarly article  Extraction and indexing of data surrounding the table or figure to provide indexing for each image

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Deep Indexing Will Provide: An image of the Figure or Table Full caption Article citation with link to full abstract Category (Graph, Satellite Image, …) Subject, taxonomic, geographic and statistical descriptor terms taken from caption, data variable labels and surrounding text Units for subject variables Link to Full Text

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Object Categories for LIMIT and SEARCH Graph Graph; 3D Surface Plot Graph; Area Chart Graph; Box Plot Graph; Cluster Diagram Graph; Contour Plot Graph; Histogram/Bar Chart Graph; Line Graph Graph; Pie Chart Graph; Polar Plot Graph; Spectral Analysis Graph; Spectrogram Graph; Time Series Plot Illustration Illustration; Chemical Structure Illustration; Equipment Illustration Illustration; Flow Chart Illustration; Molecular Structure Illustration; Organism Illustration Illustration; Schematic Illustration; Venn Diagram Map Map; Bathymetric Map Map; Geological Map Map; Study Site Map Map; Topographic Map Photograph Photograph; Dot Blots Photograph; Equipment Photograph Photograph; Gel Photograph; Organism Photograph Photograph; Photomicrograph Photograph; Satellite Image Photograph; Study Site Photograph Photograph; Vertical Section Photograph Transmission/Emission Image Table

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Click on image for full Object Record Abstract Record Thumbnails of all tables and figures displayed

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning FULL OBJECT RECORD Publisher attribution Object Descriptors

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Current Publisher Status Over 1,100 worldwide journal titles included at launch Working on 10-yr back files (some back to 1890) Continued focus on publisher agreements: Agreements Under Discussion: Akadémiai Kiadó American Assoc. for the Advance. of Sci. American Assoc. of Petroleum Geologists American Geophysical Union American Meteorological Society American Society for Microbiology ASLO Brill - Martinus Nijhoff, etc. EDP Sciences Elsevier Science Emerald Group Publ Ltd Agreements Completed: BioOne BioMedCentral Blackwell Publishing Cambridge University Press Geological Soc. of America IOS Press Oxford University Press Nat’l Res. Council Canada PLoS Springer-Verlag Taylor & Francis Walter de Gruyter Elsevier Science Haworth Press IOP InderScience Institute of Physics John Wiley & Sons Lippincott SAGE Publications University of Chicago Press

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Multi Disciplinary Enhanced Coverage 1 Million Indexed Tables and Figures Subject by Ulrich’s

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning How does it work? CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences Demonstration Demonstration

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Search Specificity:

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Traditional Abstracts Search Results will include “pinkies”

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Results from a direct search of objects includes thumbnails

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Both search paths will lead to enhanced abstract records containing thumbnails of all objects in the article…

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Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Full display available in main “Object Record”

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Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning Years of Coverage Objects per year

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning CSA Illustrata In Summary Provides through Deep Indexing an innovative approach to locating information in the scholarly literature Multidisciplinary content International in scope Can be searched alone or combined with other CSA databases Intuitive interface designed with researcher input

Proprietary and Confidential ProQuest Information & Learning CSA Illustrata Leader in Deep Indexing