SLA
Annual Conference Sci-Tech Division Sponsors
The Science Technology Division
gratefully acknowledges the support of our vendor partners.
Their sponsorships make possible the excellent programming
we enjoy at SLA Annual Conference. We can’t do it without
financial support, though, much of which comes from our vendors.
The following corporations, vendors,
and societies are proud sponsors of the 2008 SLA Annual Conference
which will be held in Seattle, WA, USA, 15 - 18 June 2008. Please take a moment to
look over this honor roll and when you tour the exhibit hall
or meet a representative at one of our events, remember to
say THANK YOU for their support of the programs you have
enjoyed.
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ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) founded in
1947, is a major force in advancing the skills of information
technology professionals and students worldwide. Today,
our 80,000 members and the public turn to ACM for the industry's
leading Portal to Computing Literature, authoritative publications
and pioneering conferences, providing leadership for the
21st century. |
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The
American Chemical Society is a self-governed individual membership organization
that consists of more than 158,000 members at all degree
levels and in all fields of chemistry. The organization
provides a broad range of opportunities for peer interaction
and career development, regardless of professional or scientific
interests. The programs and activities conducted by ACS today are the products of a tradition of excellence in
meeting member needs that dates from the Society's founding
in 1876. |
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Annual
Reviews is proud to publish authoritative, analytic
reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical,
Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews publications
are among the most highly cited in scientific literature.
Annual Reviews offers publications in print and online
to individuals, institutions, and consortia throughout
the world. |
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Founded in 1880
as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today's ASME is
a 120,000-member professional organization focused on
technical, educational and research issues of the worldwide
engineering and technology community. |
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ASTM
International, originally
known as the American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM), is one of the largest voluntary
standards development organizations in the world-a
trusted source for technical standards for materials,
products, systems, and services. Standards developed
at ASTM are the work of over 30,000 ASTM members.
These technical experts represent producers,
users, consumers, government and academia from
over 100 countries. Participation in ASTM International
is open to all with a material interest, anywhere
in the world. ASTM also publishes hundreds of
technical publications in formats to meet your
needs including Special Technical Publications
(STP's), compilations, manuals, monographs, journals,
data series, adjuncts, reference radiographs,
handbooks and more.
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CAS is
a team of scientists, creating and delivering the most
complete and effective digital information environment
for scientific research and discovery. CAS provides pathways
to published research in the world's journal and patent
literature--virtually everything relevant to chemistry
plus a wealth of information in the life sciences and
a wide range of other scientific disciplines--back to
the beginning of the 20th century. Through the printed
CA, CA on CD, STN, the CAS files distributed through
licensed vendors, the SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar
desktop research tools, and the STN Easy or STN on the
Web services, data produced by CAS is accessible to virtually
any scientific researcher worldwide in industry, governmental
research institutions, and academia. |
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CrossRef is
an independent membership association, founded and
directed by publishers. CrossRef’s mandate is
to connect users to primary research content, by enabling
publishers to do collectively what they can’t
do individually. CrossRef is also the official DOI
registration agency for scholarly and professional
publications. It operates a cross-publisher citation
linking system that allows a researcher to click on
a reference citation on one publisher’s platform
and link directly to the cited content on another publisher’s
platform, subject to the target publisher’s access
control practices. Its citation-linking network today
covers millions of articles and other content items
from several hundred scholarly and professional publishers.
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EBSCO Information
Services is a worldwide leader in providing information
access and management solutions through print and electronic
journal subscription services, research database development
and production, online access to more than 100 databases
and thousands of e-journals, and e-commerce book procurement.
EBSCO has served the library and business communities
for more than 60 years. |
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Elsevier is
a world leading, multiple-media publisher of scientific,
technical and health information products and services,
with 7,000 employees in 73 locations around the globe.
It publishes more than 20,000 products and services,
including journals, books, electronic products, services,
databases and portals serving the global scientific,
technical and medical (STM) communities. It is part
of the Reed
Elsevier Group, a leading international
publisher and information provider.
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The IEEE (Eye-triple-E)
is a non-profit, technical professional association of
more than 365,000 individual members in approximately
150countries. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading
authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering,
biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric
power, aerospace engineering and consumer electronics,
among others. Through its technical publishing, conferences
and consensus-based standards activities, the IEEE produces
30 percent of the world's published literature in electrical
and electronics engineering, and computer science areas,
holds annually more than 300 major conferences, and has
nearly 900 active standards with almost 500 under development.
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Produced by the
IET, Inspec® is the leading
English-language bibliographic information service
providing access to the world's scientific and
technical literature in physics, electrical engineering,
electronics, communications, control engineering,
computers, computing, information technology, manufacturing,
production and mechanical engineering. |
Knovel brings
essential Sci-tech reference data to life in a virtual technical
library that solves problems for engineers,
applied scientists and librarians worldwide. On one
interface the Knovel Library combines authoritative reference
content
from major Sci-tech publishers including John Wiley & Sons,
McGraw-Hill and Elsevier. This data is enhanced with
time-saving analytical
tools to help analyze and manipulate the data. Users
can analyze and reorganize the data in over 700 full-text
engineering
and
scientific reference works, handbooks, and databases
Knovel. They can sort, filter and export data from
'live tables',
resolve equations and plot graphs, capture values
from existing graphs
and perform 'what if' experiments on the data.
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Nature
Publishing Group (NPG) is
the scientific publishing arm of Macmillan Publishers
Ltd, combining the excellence of: Nature, Nature
research journals, Nature Reviews, Nature Clinical
Practice journals and NPG academic journals, to
provide the world's premier information resource
for the basic biological and physical sciences. |
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Open
Text is the market leader in
providing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions
that bring together people, processes and information.
Our software seamlessly combines collaboration
with content management, transforming information
into knowledge that provides the foundation for
innovation, compliance and accelerated growth. |
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The
Thomson Corporation is a leading
global provider of integrated information solutions
to business and professional customers. Thomson
provides value-added information, with software
tools and applications that help its customers
make better decisions, faster. It serves more than
20 million information users in the fields of law,
tax, accounting, higher education, reference information,
corporate e-learning and assessment, financial
services, scientific research and healthcare. |
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