As of February 2008, WebFeat has merged with Serials Solutions, the Seattle-based business unit and developer of e-resource access and management tools for libraries.Since introducing the first A-to-Z Title List in 2000, Serials Solutions (www.serialssolutions.com) has been a global leader in the library technology marketplace. Founded by a librarian for librarians, Serials Solutions helps library staff and patrons find and use electronic content. Today, with over 2000 clients worldwide, Serials Solutions is the premier vendor of e-resource access and management services (ERAMS), providing a complete and integrated access and management solution for libraries of all sizes and types. The Serials Solutions family of services includes 360 Core, 360 Link, 360 Search, 360 MARC Updates, 360 Resource Manager, and the new 360 Counter e-resource assessment service. The foundation of Serials Solutions technology is Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks, the authoritative e-resource knowledgebase. Serials Solutions is also the exclusive source for Ulrichsweb.com and Ulrich's Serials Analysis System. Through its Software as a Service (SaaS) technology model, Serials Solutions provides fast implementation, easy customization, and outstanding value to its client libraries. Serials Solutions is a business unit of ProQuest.
EBSCO Information Services (www.ebsco.com) is the leading service provider for e-journal, e-package and print subscriptions, a suite of e-resource management tools, full-text and secondary databases and related services for all types of libraries and research organizations. As the “e” agent of the industry, more than half of the subscriptions handled by EBSCO have an electronic component. EBSCO’s comprehensive solutions include proven systems to consolidate ordering, invoicing, claiming and renewals as well as assistance with licensing and registration requirements for our e-journal and e-package customers worldwide. EBSCO’s 32 Regional Offices, located in 20 countries around the world, serve customers in more than 200 countries and are staffed by information professionals who speak the local language and understand the particular challenges faced by librarians in their areas.
CARE Affiliates (www.care-affiliates.com) provides services and products based on open source software to libraries and information centers around the world. These services include consulting, selection, packaging, integration, installation, support, hosting (SaaS), maintenance and continued development. Products include repositories, federated search tools, preservation and archiving solutions. CARE Affiliates was founded in 2006 and is an international organization with offices in Chicago, Virginia and Toronto. Our wide ranging selection of open source solutions for libraries and information centers are described on our web site.
Created in June 2005 through the merger of Dynix Corporation with Sirsi Corporation, SirsiDynix (www.sirsidynix.com) provides the broadest array of information management products and services for libraries and consortia worldwide. Both Sirsi and Dynix have had excellent track records as leading information technology providers for libraries and their users, and the new company will build on its constituents' strengths while providing more opportunities for technological innovation and growth. SirsiDynix has approximately 4,000 library and consortia clients around the world, serving more than 200 million people through more than 20,000 library outlets in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.
TLC (www.tlcdelivers.com) is owned and operated by the family that founded the company over 31 years
ago. The company's automation solutions include library automation, cataloging and authority control solutions, and RFID. A number of TLC offerings, including
AuthorityWorks™, AquaBrowser Library, the Web-based Online Selection & Acquisitions, and RFID are designed to work with any ILS. WebFeat is only federated search solution that is fully integrated with AquaBrowser Library.
Artstor (www.artstor.org) is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts.
Thomson Gale™
(www.gale.com), a business of The Thomson Corporation, is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform.
The LexisNexis Group (www.lexisnexis.com) provides information to legal, corporate, government and academic markets, and publishes legal, tax and regulatory information, via online, hardcopy print and CD-ROM formats. The global legal and information division of Reed Elsevier plc, LexisNexis Group combines dozens of brands that are leaders within their respective markets. A trusted source, LexisNexis Group offers targeted Web information solutions that can be integrated into customer business processes and systems.
As the world’s leading publisher of science and health information, Elsevier (www.elsevier.com) serves more than 30 million scientists, students, and health and information professionals worldwide. We are proud to play an essential role in the global science and health communities and to contribute to the advancement of these critical fields. By delivering world-class information and innovative tools to researchers, students, educators and practitioners worldwide, we help them increase their productivity and effectiveness. We continuously make substantial investments that serve the needs of the global science and health communities.
A non-profit organization, IEEE (www.ieee.org) is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology. The IEEE name was originally an acronym for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Today, the organization's scope of interest has expanded into so many related fields, that it is simply referred to by the letters I-E-E-E (pronounced Eye-triple-E). Through its global membership, IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics among others. Members rely on IEEE as a source of technical and professional information, resources and services.
Naxos Music Library (www.naxosmusiclibrary.com) is a classical music library offering high-quality performances and recordings from an enormous range of standard and specialist repertoire not available from other online sources. The recordings in Naxos Music Library include the complete catalogues of BIS, Chandos, CPO, Hänssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naxos and selected titles of other leading independent labels, with more labels being added. Subscribers can access the library anywhere, anytime. Every composition and every track is instantly accessible at an affordable price. Naxos has subsidiaries in most major music markets around the world and produces a wide range of educational material, from audiobooks to mixed-media products, such as books with CDs and dedicated websites.
An icon in the library community for 108 years, H.W. Wilson (www.hwwilson.com) provides easy and versatile access to information plus the highest-quality content via WilsonWeb. Wilson periodical databases offer full-text, page images, abstracts, and indexing of thousands of diverse magazines and journals. Wilson biographical databases are a powerhouse of information on over 500,000 people, from historical to present-day. The Wilson Retrospective Collection, now encompassing databases on art, biography, book reviews, education, humanities, law, library literature, social sciences, and the classic Readers' Guide, gives researchers unprecedented access to information back as far as 1890 in convenient online form. WilsonWeb, with its unique All-Smart Search, allows users to spend more time finding and less time searching, and its built-in WilsonLink feature offers OpenURL linking at no additional charge.
NewsBank, Inc. (www.newsbank.com) has been one of the world's premier information providers for more than 35 years. NewsBank's comprehensive, Web-based resources satisfy the diverse news and information requirements of public libraries, colleges and universities, schools, government and military libraries, genealogists, professionals and researchers. Additionally, NewsBank's extensive, turnkey media services enable its publishing partners to effectively leverage their content to generate additional revenue.
Alexander Street Press brings together the skills of traditional publishing, librarianship, and software development to create quality electronic collections. Alexander Street Press, L.L.C. (www.alexanderstreetpress.com) was founded in May 2000, with the goal of publishing large-scale digital collections of exceptional quality in the humanities and social sciences. Today, Alexander Street publishes 27 collections totaling many millions of pages. We’re concentrating on building the best collections we can in six disciplines across the humanities—Music; Women's History and Literature; Black History and Literature; North American History; Drama, Theatre, and Film; and Religion and Social Thought. In each of these areas we provide unique resources for scholarship.
Facts On File (http://factsonfile.com) is one of America’s leading publishers of print and online reference materials for the school and library market. Known to librarians worldwide as "the Information Publisher," Facts On File has been publishing quality reference titles since 1941. Our list has grown to more than 1,300 titles and spans a multitude of subject areas such as U.S. history, world history, language and literature, science and technology, careers, social issues, and many others. Our publishing program covers five reading levels: elementary (grades 3-6), middle school (grades 6-8), high school (grades 9-12), college/academic, and general adult.
Introduced in May 2001, the ISI Web of KnowledgeSM (www.isinet.com) is a powerful Web-based platform that illustrates the ISI commitment to providing coverage of the highest quality content while maintaining and improving the access and links between users of scholarly information and additional repositories of relevant research. This single, sophisticated platform extends and deepens the research coverage available through one resource by integrating journal, patent, proceedings, and life science literature with Web resources and other scholarly content.
WebFeat has partnered with EOS International (www.eosintl.com) to supply special libraries with federated search functionality. This joint development partnership will offer EOS clients simplified access to multiple database resources. EOS International is a leading global library information management software and services provider with a client base of over 3,000 special libraries. A client-driven company that has earned the top customer satisfaction award for the past two years and earned a nomination for the Computerworld Smithsonian award, EOS library automation software products (EOS.Web™ Express, EOS.Web™ Enterprise, and hosted, EOS e-Library Service®) serve the stringent knowledge and content management needs of corporate, legal, medical, government and special libraries of all sizes.
VTLS Inc. (www.vtls.com) is a leading global company that creates and provides visionary technology in library solutions. We serve a diverse customer base of more than 900 libraries in over 35 countries. VIRTUA is our premier ILS solution. VTRAX is our RFID technology. VITAL is our institutional repository solution provides cutting edge software and services for Digital Libraries. VTLS is also one of the few ISO 9001:2000 quality certified companies within the library industry.
For more than twenty years, Inmagic (www.inmagic.com) has been a pioneer helping organizations tap the value of their unstructured information assets. Today more than 5,000 organizations around the world use Inmagic software to actively manage a wide range of physical and virtual information assets and gain extraordinary insights from them. Inmagic solutions are known for their flexibility, ease of use and deployment, and minimal need for information technology support. Because they are based on Microsoft® SQL Server™ and .NET technology that utilizes Web services, Inmagic applications can be integrated with and interoperate within an organization's overall information technology infrastructure.
ABC-CLIO
(www.abc-clio.com) is a closely held publisher of educational and reference products. The company focuses on history and social studies resources for the scholar, student, teacher, and librarian in universities and secondary schools. The company was founded in 1953 by Eric Boehm and produced its first publication in May, 1955. ABC-CLIO is a second-generation family company headed today by Ron Boehm. ABC-CLIO's headquarters office is in Santa Barbara, California, with branch offices in Denver, Colorado and Oxford, England.
For the first time, Southeast Floridians can access all SEFLIN member library catalogs simultaneously, with a single search. MyLibraryService.org showcases new searching technology that enables users to search the resources of 25 SEFLIN member libraries plus selected other Web resources -- at the same time. SEFLIN (Southeast Florida Library Information Network, Inc.), a non-profit membership organization of Southeast Florida libraries, is dedicated to putting the world of information at your fingertips. Founded in 1984 with LSCA federal grant funds, SEFLIN (www.seflin.org) strives to pioneer innovative technology to deliver optimum library services to Southeast Florida. SEFLIN's service area covers 5,000 square miles with 5 million residents. This area represents one-third of the state's population.
WebFeat is proud to now offer its product line through METRO. METRO (www.metro.org) was chartered in 1964 by the New York Board of Regents as a reference and research resources (3Rs) library council to promote and facilitate utilization of existing resources and to develop additional library services in the New York Metropolitan Area: the five boroughs and Westchester county. Today METRO has a staff of 15, a membership of 270 institutions and represents 1200 libraries.
WebFeat products may be purchased through NELINET. NELINET (www.nelinet.net) is a non-profit cooperative of more than 660 academic, public and special libraries in the 6 New England states. NELINET is strongly committed to: promote the advancement of libraries; promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and information; facilitate the sharing of library resources and services; promote the rapid and efficient access to and delivery of information and library resources. Today NELINET accomplishes these purposes by offering libraries a wide array of services and products. NELINET works every day with New England libraries to develop creative and innovative service solutions.
WebFeat products may now be purchased through PALINET. PALINET (www.palinet.org) is a cooperative membership organization of hundreds of institutions that collect, preserve and provide access to the record of humankind. These institutions include libraries, information centers, museums, archives, and other similar organizations situated in Delaware, the Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and neighboring states. The Network was formed in 1936 to promote library cooperation and resource sharing. Since then, PALINET has provided services in response to the growing and changing needs of libraries and related organizations of all types and sizes.
WebFeat has partnered with SydneyPlus, a leading provider of library automation solutions for business and special libraries. The partnership will allow SydneyPlus to bring WebFeat's patented federated search technology to hundreds of business, legal and government libraries.SydneyPlus (www.ils.ca), works with some of the world's top businesses, law firms, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, financial services firms and government agencies.
DA Library Technologies (www.dalibtech.com) delivers innovative systems for libraries in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. We source the world's best technologies and deliver them with our local implementation services and ongoing customer support. We provide the local expertise, required by our software suppliers, in the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific marketplace. Our staff includes personnel with library, data conversion, technical and project management experience. At DA Library Technologies, we are aware that Australian and New Zealand library managers often lead the world in their use of technology and we work with our software partners to ensure those trends are catered for in the products we supply.
William S. Hein & Co., Inc. (www.wshein.com) is a leading preservation publisher producing out-of-print legal research materials in reprint and microfilm/fiche format, and the world's largest distributor of legal periodicals. In mid-2000 Hein launched HeinOnline (www.heinonline.org) to provide online access to historical legal periodical content in the original page-image (PDF) format, ensuring the authenticity of the original hardcopy document in an online environment. Later, Hein added content beyond the scope of historical legal periodicals, and HeinOnline began to deliver more content needed by legal researchers. Today, HeinOnline content spans multiple library collections, and subscribers in more than 150 countries enjoy online access to tens of millions of pages of research material that in many instances is only available online in HeinOnline.
Quova (www.quova.com) gives online businesses the ability to determine the geographic location of their Web visitors. The company offers the most comprehensive, deeply researched and reliable location data available today — without compromising individual privacy. Thousands of online businesses use Quova’s Internet geolocation data services to detect and prevent fraud, ensure regulatory compliance, manage digital content rights distribution, and localize ads and web content. The company’s customer base includes the top three search engine sites, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the BBC, Ladbrokes and Cisco Systems.
RefWorks (www.refworks.com) provides solutions for research management, writing and collaboration. Founded in 2001 by a team of experts in the field of bibliographic database management, RefWorks is dedicated to providing a high quality web-based research management, writing and collaboration tool for the academic, government and corporate research communities. Used daily by thousands of researchers in over 700 organizations globally, RefWorks supports hundreds of online databases and output styles covering a broad range of subject areas. RefWorks collaborates with some of the world’s most prestigious online information service providers. RefWorks is a privately held corporation with offices located in the US, UK, Australia and Hong Kong.
Infotrieve (www.infotrieve.com) has become the market leader in providing scientific, technical and medical (STM) content management worldwide. Through years of experience and development of the most sophisticated solutions for finding articles quickly and efficiently, Infotrieve has grown to become known as "the leader in article research and document delivery."
With the abundance of information resources available to students, the library catalog, online databases, education portals, the Internet, etc. research can become overwhelming, not to mention time-consuming. And what about safety concerns as students surf the Internet for information? Follett Software Company's (www.fsc.follett.com) new Find-It-All Collection resolves these concerns and puts students in control of information by making research easy, fast and safe. The Find-It-All Collection helps students find the best information in the least amount of time. It helps students simplify research while producing optimal results and ensures students stay safe on the Internet. Plus, Find-It-All Collection is designed to allow seamless integration of new modules as they become available.
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