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, Washington, 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.
The descriptions of listed sponsors are taken from the sponsors' website.
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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
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Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that promotes the art, science and practice of mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences throughout the world. The core values of ASME are rooted in its mission to better enable mechanical engineering practitioners to contribute to the well-being of humankind. |
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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,
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data series, adjuncts, reference radiographs,
handbooks and more. |
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Basch Subscriptions provides full service subscription management to libraries internationally. It is committed to bringing to medical, government, corporate and academic libraries the best in customer service. Basch prides itself in furnishing our librarians with service that is personalized to meet their needs. |
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CAS is
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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
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covers millions of articles and other content items
from several hundred scholarly and professional publishers. |
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Elsevier is
a world leading, multiple-media publisher of scientific,
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It publishes more than 20,000 products and services,
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Elsevier Group, a leading international
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An icon in the library community for 108 years, H.W. Wilson is dedicated to providing the highest-quality web and print resources in the world. H.W. Wilson products are familiar to generations of library users as standard tools in college, public, school, and professional libraries worldwide.
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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
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among others. Through its technical publishing, conferences
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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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The Inspec bibliographic database, produced by the IET, contains nearly ten million records of scientific and technical articles taken from the world's literature. Over 4000 scientific and technical journals and some 2200 conference proceedings, as well as numerous books, reports and dissertations are scanned each year by Inspec staff for relevant articles to abstract and index for inclusion in the Database. Of the 4000 journals, around 1600 are indexed cover-to-cover. |
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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
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Our software seamlessly combines collaboration
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The
Thomson Reuters is a leading
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combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. |
 
YBP Library Services provides books and supporting collection management and technical services to academic, research and special libraries around the world. YBP was founded in 1971 as a bookseller to libraries. In 1999, we were acquired by Baker & Taylor, a leading supplier of books, movies, music, and information products to libraries and retailers worldwide. We've grown from a two-person operation to a company of over 300 employees. Today, YBP offers the widest range of product offerings in the industry, as well as value-added and customized services.
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