Secondary Publisher Establishes Industry Clearinghouse

Innodata Isogen Abstracts, Indexes and Digitizes Key Information for Periodicals

Challenge

A world leader in providing information access and management solutions wished to forge a reputation as the clearinghouse that librarians and corporate researchers rely on to stay current with developments in their fields, but needed help meeting expanding electronic media demands. This world leader is also a secondary publisher that processes tremendous volumes of content. Each month it adds a large number of articles to the million of articles already on file with an electronic service, joining the more than 150 existing databases and 12,000 eJournals.

In addition, the publisher customizes its online services for numerous individual subscribers. Libraries, for example, want to provide patrons with electronic access to a wide range of books, journals and periodicals. While some libraries only require abstracts, others enroll in services that enable readers to access entire articles and buy others on a pay-per-view basis. To support these growing electronic media demands, the publisher enhances access to this content through quick search and information retrieval.

This enhanced access wouldn’t be possible without the indexing terms, abstracts and other XML-based features that enable readers to search more effectively and efficiently for relevant content...