Reed Elsevier Slashes Time and Expense of Indexing

Innodata Isogen Halves Indexing Costs for Leading Electronic Medical Information Service

CHALLENGE

Reed Elsevier is a publisher and information provider active in the science, medical, legal, education and business fields. Its editors are kept busy ?lling 1,200 journals and more than 900 books a year with the latest news and information. The company also publishes more than 8,000 clinical reference works, texts and CDs, which present a vast body of technical data on medical breakthroughs and drug developments. Quick and easy access to this archive literally saves lives.

Simply keeping track of Reed Elsevier’s English publications would be a daunting task, let alone the publication’s French and German journals. For medical doctors or lab scientists, staying abreast of all the developments covered in the publications is almost impossible. At the same time, knowing about and understanding the latest discoveries – and even past revelations – can be critical to their work, especially during medical emergencies. Developing an Internet-based index to all science, technology and medical articles would be an invaluable service for the medical community...