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Vendor Update. Special Libraries Association Annual Conference Tuesday, June 13, 2000 Cliff Pierce Director, Publisher Relations. Acquisitions IPI - International Sales Agent Chadwyck-Healey - UK-based electronic publisher Infonautics - eLibrary product and creation of bigchalk.com.
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Vendor Update Special Libraries Association Annual Conference Tuesday, June 13, 2000 Cliff Pierce Director, Publisher Relations
Acquisitions IPI - International Sales Agent Chadwyck-Healey - UK-based electronic publisher Infonautics - eLibrary product and creation of bigchalk.com Expanded Distribution
Web Archive Solutions ProQuest CoursePacks/CasePacks Digital Vault New Product Development
Web Archive Solutions • Infonautics • ProQuest SiteBuilder • Integrated into the “look and feel” of the publisher’s website • Include e-commerce
ProQuest CoursePacks/CasePacks • Extension of our ProQuest Service • Expand our penetration of the academic market by moving beyond the library and into the classroom • Provide a collection of articles to be used by students in conjunction with specific courses • Existing pre-defined content packages are available for use or the course instructor can create their own • Significantly expands the traditional market for print CoursePacks and CasePacks • Print Market Size - $300 million annually (declining)
Digital VaultTM Opening the Vault on 500 Years of History
Microfilm Collection • Bell & Howell Information and Learning’s microfilm “vault” is the largest commercially available collection • 20,000 periodicals, 7,000 newspapers and 400 Research Collections and 1,000,000 dissertations • 3 climate controlled underground vaults • Over 5.5 billion page images • Using the microfilm contained in the vaults to create the largest digital collection
Why Digitize Microfilm? • Microfilm is inconvenient to use • Expand distribution • Enable new research methods • Allows for the creation of derivative products
How Is It Done? • Scan from the master film negative at 400 bpi binary • Store images in industry standard TIFF format • “Zone” each page to create individual article images • OCR each article to create searchable ASCII text • Deliver each article to the screen
Opening the Vault • First Digital Vault product released 12/98 - Early English Books Online (EEBO) • EEBO covers 230 years of English printing • Collection represents nearly 23 million pages • Focus in 2000 • American Periodical Series • Gerritsen Collection on Women’s History • Genealogy and Local History • Modern Periodical Archive • Newspapers