ProQuest Adds Deep Indexing Content to Select Natural Science and Technology Resources
ProQuest has incorporated its patent-pending Deep Indexing technology, pioneered with the company’s popular Illustrata offerings, into selected natural science, technology, and engineering subject-oriented databases.
“We’ve heard from science and technology librarians that the deep indexing within Illustrata is tremendously helpful in surfacing the rich information present in the figures and tables within articles,” said Mark Hyer, ProQuest vice president of publishing. “Now we’re extending this proprietary Deep Indexing technology to our already robust database records — setting a new standard of quality for subject-oriented indexing.”
Deep Indexing technology categorizes data represented in tables, maps, charts, graphs, photographs and other figures, allowing researcher to surface data not previously included in traditional article-level index records. Now, ProQuest has combined Deep Indexing with the traditional article level indexing to offer users a more robust and relevant results set. Journal articles with Deep Indexing are further enhanced with thumbnail images, or full images where available, giving a quick preview of the image(s).
Unique Deep Indexing provides greater discoverability in the following resources:
- AGRICOLA
- ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts
- Biological Sciences Database
- Engineering Research Database
- Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database
- GeoRef
- High Technology Research Database with Aerospace
- Materials Research Database with METADEX
- Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
- Polymer Library
- Technology Research Database
ProQuest is also offering complimentary training webinars about this new enhancement. For information on training sessions visit http://www.proquest.com/en-US/support/default.shtml. For more on Deep Indexing, visit: http://www.csa.com/e_products/pqdeepindex.php
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