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CSA Overview 2004 Villa Umbra Stuart Cooper - Anna Merlo – Cenfor International Srl 19 th November 2004.

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1 CSA Overview 2004 Villa Umbra Stuart Cooper - scooper@csa.com Anna Merlo – Cenfor International Srl amerlo@cenfor.it 19 th November 2004

2 2 Agenda  Company  CSA Illumina – live demo  CSA databases  Partner databases  Full Text  RefWorks  Package

3 3 Company  Privately owned and part of Cambridge Information Group  Bowker now a sister company  Media independent secondary publisher  Previously Cambridge Scientific Abstracts – now CSA  30+ years old  50+ databases  10 offices world-wide

4 4 CSA Illumina  Major New Service  Redesign – more robust  10 million+ logons this year – built for future  Not just an IDS 7.0  Transition 01/10/04 – 31/01/05  More intuitive  Links, cited refs  Unlimited access – sitewide  IP & UN/PW control

5 5 CSA Illumina Features and Enhancements  Easier to use "Quick Search"  Improved navigation  ADA and SENDA compliance  Elimination of frames  Improved integration of help files  Online tutorials  New custom default options  Multi-language interface options  Interdisciplinary presentation of resources (optional)  Search Tools including Combined Search  Dynamic de-duplication of records with show/hide duplicates option  Hyper-linked descriptor terms for quick execution of new search queries  New library administration module  QuikBib bibliography creator

6 6 CSA Databases  4 principle areas  Arts & Humanities  Natural Sciences  Technology  Social Sciences

7 7 CSA Databases  Publisher of 50+ databases including  Aerospace Database  Aqualine  ArtBibliographies Modern  ASFA  Civil Engineering Abstracts  Ecology Abstracts and Pollution Abstracts  Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abs  METADEX  Microbiology Abstracts  LLBA  Sociological Abstracts  LISA  And many more……………………………………

8 8 CSA Partner Databases Including……  AgeLine  ATLA Religion  BHA  BHI  EconLit  GeoRef  IMID  Index Islamicus  IBSS  NTIS  MLA  Polymer Library (RAPRA)  Philospher’s Index  PsycINFO  PsycARTICLES  PsycBOOKS coming 2005  RILM  Weldasearch  Zoological Record Plus

9 9 CSA Databases/Full Text EXCLUSIVE  SAGE Full Text Collections  Sociology  Criminology  Communications  Politics  Education  Psychology  Nursing & Healthcare  Management  Materials  Urban Studies  A&I database + Full Text  Full back file (30yrs) EXCLUSIVE  BioOne  Partnership – scientific societies, non-commercial publishers, libraries & academe  Aggregation of 70 peer-reviewed journals from 55 publishers – ISI ranked  Bioscience, Biology, Botany, Ecology & Environmental Sciences  DOI’s assigned to all journals  Content doubled in 4 years – 90% titles exclusive  A&I database + Full Text  Back file 1998

10 10 CSA Illumina – Full Text Links American Fisheries Society AIAA Online Meeting Papers American Meteorological Society ASM Handbooks BioOne Blackwell Synergy Ingenta Select (formerly CatchWord) EBSCOhost EJS ERIC Full-text FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online (OCLC) Geological Society of America HighWire Press Ingenta JSTOR Kluwer National Sea Grant Library (No Subscription Required) nature publishing group Oxford University Press Project Muse PsycARTICLES ScienceDirect SpringerLink SwetsWise (formerly SwetsnetNavigator) Wiley InterScience Your Local Web Server

11 11 RefWorks  New Interface  Designed to simplify user experience  Make better use of screen space  Drop-downs – easier navigation  More intuitive – easier import/export  Will allow for user customization in the future  Based off User Feedback  Updated Tutorial  Release Date: August 5 th 2004

12 12 Current RefWorks Interface

13 13 New Interface Drop Downs

14 14 Tools within New Interface

15 15 Future Features  “My RefWorks” – end-user customization  RefShare; web posting capability  Adding images; pdf’s, graphics  Added integration with data products:  Indicate which references are already in RefWorks (CSA, Elsevier, OCLC etc)  Cited by info  Cited References  More like this searching from within RefWorks

16 16 CSA Offers…..  CSA Illumina platform  In-house edited databases  Key databases from other sources  Full Text  Links – OPAC, OpenURL, SFX etc  Manage the collected data  Assure your long-term investment in data and platform choice


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