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August 20, 2007 — 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. CLICK HERE to view more Weekly News Digest items.

Recommind Introduces Axcelerate eDiscovery

Recommind (www.recommind.com) introduced Axcelerate eDiscovery,an automated document coding, review, and analysis solution for litigation professionals. The new product is designed to assess responsiveness, privilege,and issue relations before the review process begins, thus reducing the amount of time required to organize and conduct document review and analysis whilesimultaneously increasing review accuracy and consistency.

Recommind said that Axcelerate eDiscovery is the first product to offer automatic First-Pass Review of an entire document collection and the only solution offering patent-pending One-Click Coding of documents,highly differentiating tools designed to significantly expedite the review process, improve attorney efficiency, and lower discovery costs for clients. 

Axcelerate eDiscovery offers law firms and enterprises accurate and extensive document culling and filtering of virtually all document types, including both structured and unstructured data. The solution automatically filters duplicates and near-duplicates between and across custodians and parties, and offers contextual email-thread analysis, while also applying more than 17 additional filters to a document collection, dramatically reducing the number of documents to be reviewed. The product's early case assessment tools then automatically extract key documents, people, phrases, and concepts of interest, helping attorneys and paralegals quickly understand the contents of a document collection, regardless of its size, before the review process has even begun. Its tools thus help attorneys build and substantiate their cases earlier in the discovery process.

Axcelerate eDiscovery also provides a fully automated "find all like this" functionality, which uses the system's conceptual search engine to quickly locate similar documents to a sample document of interest, whether a particular keyword was used frequently, occasionally, or not at all, and the system's ability to "learn" across all users by incorporating myriad reviewer responses directly into the automatic coding and review mechanism. 

Source: Recommind

WilsonWeb Gains Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective

H.W. Wilson (www.hwwilson.com)has added the new Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective:1913-1983 to its WilsonWeb service. The historical content comes from the H.W.Wilson reference sources Applied Science & Technology Index and Industrial Arts Index. With coverage of more than 1,400 periodicals encompassing morethan 3 million articles,  the Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective is designed to help users track down important studies, probe historical controversies, find papers by innovators, research the development of technologies, explore corporate chronicles, review historical opinion and predictions, and much more.

Coverage includes the gamut of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, machine learning to meteorology, textiles to transportation. A dedicated editorial board has guided periodicals selection throughout the lives of the two indexes.

The database has updated subject headings designed to make finding information easy with contemporary terms, though original subject headings are also displayed and searchable on WilsonWeb. Names used as subject headings are standardized throughout the years of coverage, to ensure retrieval of all records about an individual or a company. Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective searches seamlessly with Wilson's Applied Science & Technology Full Text database, offering nearly a century of data combined.

Free 30-day trials are available at www.hwwilson.com/trial. For more information on Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective: 1913-1983, visit www.hwwilson.com/astretro.

Source: H.W. Wilson

IGI Global Releases New Information Science Titles

IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.; www.igi-global.com),has recently released collections in its newest product line: multi-volume bookcollections covering 12 key areas of information science and technology. Themulti-volume book, IntelligentInformation Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, collects research from international authoritative scholars.

IGI has agreed to provide free, unlimited, multi-user access to the online aggregated databases for both multi-volume book collections (for the life of the edition), when a library purchases a print copy. Online-only access is also available. Libraries can obtain additional cost savings by purchasing each collection during the pre-publication period that lasts until a month after publication.

IGI Global is a multimedia publisher of books, reference titles, journals, encyclopedias, teaching cases, proceedings, and databases covering the areas of education, social science, library science, health care,business management, public administration, and computer science. IGI Global's main office is based in Hershey, Penn., with a sales office in New York City.

IGI Global is a multimedia publisher of books, reference titles, journals, encyclopedias, teaching cases, proceedings, and databases covering the areas of education, social science, library science, health care,business management, public administration, and computer science. IGI Global's main office is based in Hershey, Penn., with a sales office in New York City.

Source: IGI Global