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Getting the Complete Picture With Attivio’s Active Dashboards
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by Paula J. Hane
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There are a few technologies for which I'm particularly grateful as an online information professional: embedded links, faceted search, and dashboards. All of them are designed to make a researcher's life easier, getting to the right information faster and easier. None of these are new tools, but I want to reflect on the growing importance of dashboards as a user interface in the information management field today. A dashboard pulls information from diverse sources and presents it in an interface designed to be easy to read, similar to an automobile's dashboard. The key difference is that users can interact with the information. The interactive nature of a dashboard lets a user move quickly from a summary view to drill down to various levels of detail and usually in easy-to-comprehend visuals and graphics. And that is just what Attivio offers with its Active Dashboard but with another key difference. The system is indeed "active." You don't have to search for information—the system pushes it to you. And, as you click on a piece of information in a window, other windows on the dashboard are automatically updated.
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H.W. Wilson Database Content Included in EBSCO Discovery Service
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H.W. Wilson databases will soon be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) for mutual customers. Selected Wilson databases have been available on the EBSCOhost platform. As a natural extension, the two companies agreed to include the robust metadata of the important Wilson databases available to customers who subscribe to the databases.
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Gale Announces Biography in Context
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Gale, part of Cengage Learning, announced Biography in Context, a new online resource developed to meet the needs of today's internet-savvy researchers. This next-generation offering evolved from, and will replace, the Biography Resource Center database. Designed as an online learning environment, Biography in Context delivers content that builds collaboration from the library to the classroom.
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Copyright Clearance Center Expands Partner Program
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Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and provider of licensing solutions, announced the expansion of its partner program and details of its recent partnerships with life sciences PDF search platform Pubget and web-based learning resource Study.Net.
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OECD iLibrary Officially Launched as Rebuilt Website
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by Barbara Quint
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has had a website for identifying and distributing its own and other agency publications since the beginning of the century. Until recently, the site was named SourceOECD, but over the last 4 or 5 years, according to Toby Green, head of publishing, the OECD has been working with Publishing Technology (formed in 2007 with the merger of Ingenta, VISTA, and Publishers Communication Group (PCG)) to redesign its site and many internal functions as well. The result is OECD iLibrary. In the course of investigating this development, probably my most interesting discovery had nothing to do with the newness of the site. Instead, it was the discovery of how many countries the data covered outside the 33 developed country members of OECD itself.
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