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Weekly News Digest
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April 25, 2005 — 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.
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Factiva Introduces Developer’s Kit 3.0
Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company (http://www.factiva.com), has released Factiva Developer's Kit 3.0, an application programming interface (API) that provides integration enhancements for the recently launched Factiva SalesWorks and Factiva Companies & Executives. The new Developer's Kit allows the content and functionality available in Factiva SalesWorks and Factiva Companies & Executives to be integrated easily into enterprise applications, such as sales force automation tools, customer relationship management systems (CRMs), third-party or in-house portals, intranets, and Microsoft Office 2003.Factiva Developer's Kit provides developers with application-agnostic, platform-independent, XML-based programmatic access to the majority of functionality and content available on the Factiva platform. It allows companies to develop customized applications with extensive personalization that integrates Factiva's content and functionality into their business applications and end users' work flow. The company said that the new integration capabilities of Factiva's sales productivity solutions are designed to help companies drive adoption of their enterprise applications and equip the users of those applications with timely information and news about companies, industries, and executives. Source: Factiva
John Wiley Launches New Digital Collection and Databases
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced the launch of the Analytical Sciences Backfile Collection. This is the latest addition to its growing collection of digitized journal libraries; it is the second one to be launched this year. The Analytical Sciences Backfile Collection is available via Wiley InterScience (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/backfiles), Wiley's online publishing platform.Spanning the years 1968 to 1998, the Analytical Sciences Backfile Collection contains digitized back-issue content across 13 journal titles. Subscribers now have access to more than 24,000 research articles and more than 180,000 digitized pages of new analytical sciences content. Articles are presented as fully searchable PDFs, with abstracts, bibliographic content, and literature citations available in HTML, which allows for both internal linking to cited content located on Wiley InterScience and external linking via CrossRef/DOI, PubMed, ISI Web of Science, and CAS. John Wiley & Sons also announced the launch of two new natural products databases designed for organic and biochemistry research: AntiBase 2005 (for ISIS/Base and ChemFinder) and AmicBase 2005 (on CD-ROM in the following formats: Microsoft Access, CambridgeSoft ChemFinder, and MDL ISIS/Base). AntiBase 2005 is a database of 31,022 natural compounds from microorganisms and higher fungi. The data in AntiBase 2005 has been collected from the primary and secondary literature and then carefully checked and validated. AmicBase 2005 contains information about the antimicrobial and toxicological properties of pharmaceutical drugs and natural compounds produced through microorganisms and higher plants. Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
EBSCO Announces New Sociology Resource
After 2 years of research and development, EBSCO Publishing (http://www.ebsco.com) has introduced SocINDEX and SocINDEX with Full Text. The company claims that SocINDEX, available via EBSCOhost, provides greater depth and breadth of coverage than any other sociology research database available today.SocINDEX features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,000-term, sociology-specific thesaurus designed by a team of subject experts and lexicographers. This database also contains informative abstracts for more than 620 "core" journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, the file provides "priority" coverage of more than 500 journals as well as selective coverage of more than 1,070 additional journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided. Source: EBSCO Publishing
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