Peggy Dominy
dominymf@drexel.edu

Sponsor: ISI

Theme: "Going beyond 'just the content ma'am'—new web services to the researcher, student and librarian"

Abstract: At one time a publisher's obligation to its reading public was hardly more than collecting and editing content, applying the content to paper and distributing the content. Simplistic, yes. Now, we see that the transformation of the content into an "electronic" component has been added. However, in this highly competitive environment, we are starting to see additional "services" being mixed in the packaging of content. More personalized, customized, individualized, tailor-made, previewed, predigested content designed or promoted to save the consumer's (researcher, student, librarian) time. These new consumer services vary from vendor to vendor and from discipline to discipline. I approached several of our related vendors to speak on some of these extra services. The whys, hows, costs, ease of use or accessibility, etc. Who is pushing the envelope of service and who may be padding the packaging?

Tony O’Rourke (IOP) spoke on a number of enhancements to their Web service. Archiving (with the intent to go back to 1874), clustering of search results, and electronic editorial processing.

June Ellen Groppi (U of Chicago Press) spoke about the services to authors such as flexible formatting, cross linking from ADS and NASA, and linking within articles.

Mary Rose Muccie (SIAM) spoke on Siam’s Web portal for dynamical systems, DSWeb.  DSWeb's mission is to create the primary site for the organization and distribution of timely information about all aspects of dynamical systems, and to present a current view of the field. Eight sections are planned, including a magazine, a glossary of terms, an image gallery, lists of conferences and publications, tutorial information, an applications section, and information on SIAM's activity group in dynamical systems.

Tina Long (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) spoke about the release of their latest product – RefWorks, going beyond content and now providing a tool to manage the information as well.

Denise Jenkenson (ISI) spoke about ISI’s Web of Knowledge.