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Weekly News Digest
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February 24, 2011 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today. For other up-to-the-minute news, check out ITI’s Twitter account: @ITINewsBreaks.
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EOS International Signs Agreement With Deep Web Technologies for Federated Search
EOS International announced that it has entered into a partnership with Deep Web Technologies, a federated search software developer. The partnership makes Deep Web’s real-time search application, Explorit, available to EOS customers together with their online catalog systems. The new service, branded EOS.Web Federated Searching, delivers seamless integration of Explorit with EOS. The integration allows library patrons to perform a single search that includes multiple scholarly, scientific, and business journals and the library’s OPAC.Explorit, first developed in 2002, not only allows researchers and the public to search multiple journals from a single interface but it also delivers relevance ranking of search results with sorting and clustering of results and an alerting capability that delivers new relevant results to a user's inbox. Abe Lederman, Deep Web Technologies president and CTO says, “The bar is high for real-time search. Users demand the most relevant results from the best information sources with the least amount of work. Bringing library OPACs and the best scholarly sources together into a single search meets those user needs. Deep Web Technologies creates custom, federated search solutions for clients who demand precise, accurate results. The company serves Fortune 500 companies, the Science.gov Alliance, the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the Dept. of Defense, Scitopia.org, Nutrition.gov, WorldWideScience Alliance, and others. Source: EOS International
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