Online Information 2011 – National Hall, Olympia, London

Tuesday 29th November – Thursday 1st December 2011

 

 

Welcome to the researchers: the curious, the passionate, the inspired.

Visit ProQuest at Online Information on Stand 240 for the latest news from the ProQuest Family of Brands & Companies.

 

Start here for your path to serious research and remarkable discoveries...

Experts from ProQuest and Dialog will be giving the following presentations throughout the event:

 

 

Title:	Global Discoverability of Graduate Research: Challenges and Opportunities for Researchers and Librarians
Presenter:	Austin McLean
When:	Tuesday 29th November
Time:	11.15
Location:	STM Information Theatre 2

 

 

Title:	The Future Opportunities and Challenges of Discovery
Presenter:	Tim Babbitt
When:	Wednesday 30th November
Time:	11.15
Location:	Content Management and Enterprise Search Theatre 3

 

 

Title:	Unlocking Archival Magazine Content for Academic Research
Presenter:	Matt Kibble
When:	Wednesday 30th November
Time:	13.15
Location:	Library Management Issues and Information Masterclasses Theatre 1

 

 

Title:	Building Targeted Professional Communities
Presenter:	Tim Wahlberg
When:	Wednesday 30th November
Time:	14.00 – 15.30
Location:	Main Conference - Social Media : Exploiting Knowledge in networks/community management: Tools and techniques for engaging users

 

 

Start here to find out more about key industry trends and challenges...

On Tuesday 29th November, ProQuest will be holding a series of Masterclasses during Online Information. These sessions will give you the opportunity to hear experts discuss the key challenges facing the industry today!

 

Please see below for more details. Speakers will be confirmed nearer the time. Please note spaces are limited!

 

Session 1

Title:	Library Bypass: rational response or Road to Nowhere
When:	Tuesday 29th November
Where	Club Room, National Hall
Time	12.00 - 14.00

 

Overview: 
The traditional role of the academic library is under pressure from many sides - squeezed budgets, new mobile technologies, increased internet usage and less footfall in the library play a part in disrupting the long-established processes and systems in place between librarians, researchers, faculty and publishers. Keeping libraries at the heart of the research environment has never been more challenging.

Come and join our panel session where there will be an opportunity to debate this hot topic from all points of view: library; publisher; academic; and student.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Book Your Place Now: Space is limited, so please RSVP Rebecca Holmberg and please let us know if you have any special dietary requirements.

 

 

Session 2

Title:	Facilitating Serious Research Online
When:	Tuesday 29th November
Where	Club Room, National Hall
Time	14.30 - 15.30

 

Overview: 
A review of the evolution and revolution of the specialist bibliographic databases associated with high level and post graduate research. Reviewing examples from the panoramic to the particular, we'll be highlighting quirks and questioning dogma and investigating the future role of subject editors, citation indexes, images and algorithms in helping researchers retrieve gems from the information swamp.

Refreshments will be provided.

Book Your Place Now: Space is limited, so please RSVP to Rebecca Holmberg.

 

 

Session 3

Title:	Strengthening Discovery
When:	Tuesday 29th November
Where	Club Room, National Hall
Time	15.30 - 16.00

 

Overview: 
Learn more about discovery services at the library including implementation, integration and marketing; and the impact of discovery on resource usage and the research process.

Refreshments will be provided.

Book Your Place Now: Space is limited, so please RSVP to Rebecca Holmberg.

 

 

Win an Amazon Kindle... 

ProQuest will be running a daily on stand anagram competition on international ‘Anniversaries’. Visit Stand 240, pick up a competition postcard or enter online, sign up to a newsletter and solve 3 anagrams - you will automatically be entered in to our prize draw to win a Amazon Kindle!

 

Join us for a Celebration...

2011 has seen exciting developments at ProQuest with the eagerly awaited launch of the all-new ProQuest platform, the new ProQuest Dialog service, InfoStar, Data Star, the Beta launch of RefWorks 2.0, the new Global Books in Print 2.0, ebrary now in the ProQuest family as well as the continued growth of Summon from Serials Solutions.

 

Please join us for drinks and nibbles as we mark these achievements!

When:	Wednesday 30th November
Where:	Stand 240
Time:	15:30 - 16:30

 

 

Start here for the exciting new updates and developments from ProQuest…

 

Health and Medicine

NEW! – British Nursing Index

As announced this spring, the British Nursing Index joined the Health and Medical suite of products at ProQuest. Until June 2011, the index was compiled using the expertise of librarians from The Royal College of Nursing, Bournemouth University, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.

 

 

We are delighted to retain the level of editorial expertise dedicated to this resource, having the BNI editors bringing their knowledge and skills to ProQuest. In addition to this, we are keen to nurture and develop this well-established resource in its new home by:

• Making it even simpler and more straightforward to use on the clean, user-friendly interface of the new ProQuest platform
• Now cross-searchable with full-text available in ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
• Introducing new index fields to allow more precise searching e.g. by author or research type
• Developing the thesaurus to reflect ongoing changes in research and practice
• Adding carefully selected titles published outside the UK but maintaining the ability to limit searches to those published in the UK

 

More information available on www.proquest.co.uk/go/bni 

 

 

The Arts

NEW! Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive

Primary sources for film, broadcasting, popular music and theatre, 1880-2000

This new archive is sure to receive rave reviews from those looking for behind-the-scenes activities of entertainment industry. Complete archival runs of key trade and consumer magazines are included with approximately 2.5m pages digitized in high resolution and fully searchable. Find the current title list here.

 

Platform

The new ProQuest research environment

It all started here with you. Your input has led us to develop innovative ways to search, find, use, and share reliable information spanning time and a full spectrum of subject areas. The ProQuest research environment was built from the ground up, based on years of extensive student observations, end user surveys, focus groups, and individual interviews—worldwide. Visit us at Online and see how ProQuest offers instant access to authoritative, full-text content that enhances research at every level.

 

History

Early European Books

Through the development of the remarkable European complement to EEBO, Early European Books, an international survey of the printed works of the early modern period is now made possible. The survey extends this year with the inclusion of even more digitised books and pamphlets from leading bibliographic centres, all scanned in full-colour, high-resolution, directly from the original source copies. Read more about Early European Books here.

 

Business

ABI / INFORM

ABI/INFORM has seen significant growth in 2011, with a series of content announcements. 1,000 new market and industry reports were added to our already unrivalled collection, major agreements with The American Economic Association and Palgrave Macmillan illustrate our commitment to providing the best scholarly content available, and a new deal with The Economist secures access to a key publication for our subscribers. All this is part of a period of sustained growth that has seen the number of titles available in active full text almost double in the last two years.

 

 

Discover more from the ProQuest Family of Brands & Companies ...

 

Bowker

Bowker offer cost-effective solutions that are easy to implement, regularly updated and informative to librarians and library users.

 

Syndetic Solutions enhances your library catalogue by providing data elements such as cover images, tables of contents, annotations, author notes and much more. It is compatible with most ILS's and requires hardly any resources from the library's side. You just pick and choose the elements you need to enhance your catalogue. If you think this service may be of interest to you, please send us your ISBN list so we can generate a match report against our database, for discussion at Online Information. Email us at sales@bowker.co.uk 

 

LibraryThing for Libraries is the latest way to enhance your OPAC with tags, reviews and recommended/similar books. By offering your library users exciting new content and allowing them to interact with your catalogue, they can share knowledge as well as generating interest in your OPAC. Click here to find out more. You can also opt to subscribe to Shelf Browse, a visual representation of the books on the shelves in your library, and Library Anywhere, providing access to your library via a mobile device.

 

Perhaps our most innovative solution to demonstrate is BooksInPrint 2.0. With this updated version which incorporates GlobalBooksInPrint data too, you can benefit from a new search and discovery interface, a single Google-like search box to start your search, different editions and formats of titles grouped automatically, social networking and interactive functionality plus, many existing features including advanced search, lists, download and email functionality. 

 

 

Dialog

Discover the authoritative content, innovative tools, and professional services you need from Dialog…

As the world’s first online service, Dialog paved the way for the information industry, offering some of the most sophisticated search and retrieval tools available. From concept testing to clinical trials, product launches to patent protection, Dialog has a long tradition of providing professionals with access to the right information to make smart business decisions. And now, we invite you to discover the all-new ProQuest Dialog™ service.

 

The all-new ProQuest - Dialog Service

Designed to support innovation across the enterprise, our next-generation service delivers critical information to help your organization discover new opportunities, validate the uniqueness of inventions, and bring innovative products to market. Offering ease of use for information professionals and knowledge workers across industries, ProQuest Dialog combines authoritative sources from Dialog® and DataStar® databases with an intuitive new interface and powerful tools to maximize your research and results. It’s a fresh approach to precision searching based on relevancy, transparency, control, and completeness.

 

Learn more at http://www.dialog.com/proquestdialog/ 

 

ebrary 
Academic and other library markets under flexible models including subscription, perpetual archive (purchase), patron driven acquisition, and short-term loans 

ebrary offers more than 273,000 e-books from over 500 trusted publishers under flexible models including subscription, perpetual archive, and patron driven acquisition – now with both on and offline access. ebrary is the only e-book provider that enables customers to upload and integrate their own digital content from local computers with DASH! ™ (Data, Sharing Fast), and offers powerful research technology including InfoTools™. Find out more at www.ebrary.com.

 

 

RefWorks-COS

RefWorks-COS provides tools, data and support for every phase of research, from vetting the first hypothesis to obtaining funding and getting published. All of our products are designed to help researchers, faculty and students work at their best and achieve their research goals. To learn more, visit us here: http://www.refworks-cos.com/ 

 

RefWorks is a powerful online research management tool used by more than 1,200 research organisations worldwide. This writing and collaboration solution is designed to help researchers at all levels easily gather, organize, store and share all types of information and to instantly generate citations and bibliographies. Email us at sales@refworks-cos.com to find out more.

 

Pivot provides you the edge by bringing together the right research opportunities, funding, and people—quickly and easily. It provides global and local connections that strengthen research by exploring new avenues for funding and collaboration—for faculty, staff researchers, and graduate students. Learn how intuitive and easily implemented it is, by emailing us at sales@refworks-cos.com.

 

 

Serials Solutions

As the global leader in essential discovery and e-resource management solutions for more than 250 libraries worldwide, Serials Solutions enables libraries to improve access to and use of collections, ease librarian workloads, and ultimately reduce operating costs.

 

We’ll be showcasing our award winning Summon™ web-scale discovery service as well as providing development updates on our new, game-changing web-scale management solution.