Scholarly Publishing
Scholarly publishers need fast, reliable presentation of their publications to users. Users want accuracy, precision, and complete recall in their search results. We help you leverage the search to its full potential allowing precision and recall based on metadata tagging at the article or even paragraph level. Tagging automatically or interactively to match any DTD or Schema that works with any repository or search system. Give your data the power to control the systems you use to deploy the collection to your users!
Researchers need to know they have everything on the subject. They need to know what is new. They need to trust the resource system. Well-supported metadata tagging enriches the search and provides that basis for trust. Access Innovations' services and Data Harmony's software support your platform and many flexible options.
- Enrich your collection with taxonomy terms as subject metadata
- Create expert reviewer profiles to quickly find the right expertise mix for peer review
- Build author tagging into the submissions system, for example http://asist.accessinn.com/
- Build collaborative networks based on the subject metadata individual members choose for themselves.
- Guide the search experience using the taxonomy. For example try www.mediasleuth.com/
- Have platform independence for your data using an XML and UNICODE format enabling flexibility and freedom of data encoding.
Here is a sample of our publishing clients:
American Ceramics Society
Access Innovations provided services for conversion of Ceramic Abstracts records. We provided specifications for and then the actual digitization through keyed conversion of the Ceramic Abstracts backfile (1970-1980), and provided bibliographic records keyed to American Ceramics Society prescribed format, with 99.99% accuracy. Editorial coding was added to denote font and field changes. Our final quality control steps involved proofreading and parsing of the data for error checking to ensure the high accuracy rate.
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Initial moves first to SGML and later to XML were fraught with unknowns for all publishers. Access innovations worked with the ACS Staff to complete the first three journals conversion to SGML. We helped create the appropriate Document type definition (DTD) and then did the actual conversion and tagging work to create the full text digital SGML versions of the journals.
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
When the AMS decided it was time to move their publications to an online environment they consulted with Access Innovations on the format and the workflow. We then performed several data/format conversion projects for AMS: keyed conversion of Mathematical Reviews using AMS specifications; programmatic conversion of Scientific Press, Inforonics, and GCL photocomposition formats into Math/Sci online format; programmatic conversion of Computing Review to Math/Sci format; and conversion of 90,000 Mathematical Review bibliographic citations to TeX format.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Accessed innovations acted as a host for their ANSI standards site taxonomy. Another project for ANSI was analyzing the performance of Data Harmony M.A.I. for indexing documents, using the Homeland Security Standards Database (HSSD) taxonomy.
American Petroleum Institute (API)
API needed to update and correct its patent and literature databases. Using API specifications, Access Innovations coded over 20,000 abstracts, delivering over 99.98% accuracy. We also supplied independent contractors for editorial work on the API EnCompass abstracting and indexing service (now owned by Engineering Information Inc.).
American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
ASIS&T needs to stay at the cutting edge of technology for its membership. We created a digital library for the ASIS&T publications. We provide ongoing enhancement, refinement, and maintenance of the ASIS&T Thesaurus. We have also provided conversion and indexing services for ASIS&T's Bulletin, the online JASIST journal for the Wiley Interscience platform, and for ARIST (Annual review of Information Science and technology). We also create the yearly proceedings online, on CD or on flash drives as appropriate for the meeting.
American Society of Radiologic Technicians (ASRT)
Access Innovations, Inc. consultants worked with ASRT staff to develop a document management plan and the selection of a document management system. Access Innovations staff created a metadata standard specification, a set of XML schemas to cover 13 types of documents. We also created a taxonomy for internal use for document management and for external use for ASRT's website and indexing of ASRT publications. Access Innovations consultants working with expert staff at ASRT facilitated the creation of a series of “Future scan” reports on the future of radiologic technology; our staff performed online research and collection of data and used programmatic research and data collection and analysis, and compiled all information identified thru the data analysis as relevant to the project.
American Water Works Association (AWWA)
Access Innovations has met a number of different needs for AWWA, including providing initial plans and workflow for conversion to a digital format. We did the data conversion of AWWA bibliographic records to a format loadable to the DIALOG Information Services database; systems consulting; and data conversion of AWWA records for loading to AWWA's intranet system. We have also provided consulting to assist AWWA in responding to a request made by the U.S. EPA to determine the feasibility of a Small Water System Cooperative and Information Network (clearinghouse principle). The Access Innovations consultant performed the investigative parts of the study, via interview visits and questionnaires. The result was an unbiased evaluation of the existing resources and information providers, as well as final guidance to the EPA. AWWA was the first Data Harmony software customer. We also did the conversion of the Desalination Handbook.
Association for Educational Development (AED)
Access Innovations provided expert consulting services in the following areas: database design; needs assessment; systems issues; workflow requirements; systems and hardware solutions/requirements; and non-database statistical tracking issues.
Battelle Memorial Institute
Access Innovations has done a number of projects with Battelle including grey literature searching and acquisition on topics such as ferrous metallurgy information from the 15 nations which formerly made up the Soviet Union now known as the commonwealth of Independent states. Other projects focused on USSR research and development on specific topics within specific institutions.
Bay Area Library Information System (BALIS)
BLIS needed to convert its periodicals from 9 track data tapes in CLASS format to a camera-ready format. Access Innovations performed the conversion.
BIOSIS
Access Innovations provided consulting in project production flow procedures. Later, our staff provided editorial services and relational indexing. Using the BIOSIS Indexing Procedures Manual, we indexed biological and zoological publications and materials covering over 4,500 titles. We worked with the Zoological record to create the conversion specifications from the well formed Foxpro based files.
British Library Geographic Collection
The British Library sought to convert its entire set of map catalogues to digital format. Access Innovations worked with the BL to develop the MAP MARC specifications and then convert the catalogues. An extensive amount of work was done to develop the geographic place name authorities and to tag each record with the resulting appropriate place name. We did data capture work for conversion of the BL Map Catalogue, which comprised 360 folio sized PLC volumes, in accordance with BL MARC capture and tape specifications.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
Seeking to increase productivity, CSA purchased four Data Harmony MAI licenses. MAI generated a more than sixfold increase in productivity and supported the creation of the deep indexing product Ilustrata. In addition to installing the software and training CSA personnel in its use, Access Innovations staff performed custom programming and complex rule building for article categorization.
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
Access Innovations has performed several projects for CAS, all with an accuracy rate of at least 99.998%. We provided digitization services as keyed conversion of abstracts from hardcopy to CAS-GENIE format following STN International Guidelines - approximately 1,972,106 abstracts. We also provided keyed capture of over a million contained on over 42,000 pages of RNA/DNA sequences. We provided keyed conversion to database format of bibliographic citations from journals selected by Chemical Abstracts.
College of Information (COI)
The College of Information sought to convert approximately 125,000 catalog cards to MARC format. Access Innovations provided keyed conversion using microfilm prints of COI’s Insurance and Liberal Arts Collection library catalog cards, delivered at a 99.95% accuracy rate.
Elsevier
When Elsevier wanted automatic indexing for its Excerpta Medica database, it turned to Access Innovations. Using Elsevier’s MINI MALIMET and Emtree life sciences thesauri, Access Innovations produced drug nomenclature for use in indexing Excerpta Medica and provided indexing for Excerpta Medica articles.
Access Innovations has provided other services for Elsevier over the years. We converted photocomposition tapes of the Journal of Organo-Metallic Chemistry to STN format, working with 63 journal issues totalling 10,500 pages, or 37 million characters. We also tested machine aided indexing in relation to thesaurus development.
Access Innovations also revised the thesaurus used for indexing of Elsevier's well-known Ei Compendex engineering database. We did major reorganization of the hierarchical structure, updated the terminology, and added numerous new terms, based on analysis of author-added keywords. We also mapped the Ei classification codes to the added terms, and identified subject areas requiring new classification codes. Click here for a complete case study of the Ei Compendex project.
European Chemical News (ECN)
Access Innovations provided keyed conversion of 150 marked issues (14 million characters) of ECN to fielded format, with 99.95% accuracy.
Gas Research Institute (GRI)
GRI sought conversion of its private files to a database. Access Innovations provided consulting services for database design and performed keyed conversion to Dialog format B. Database development services included abstracting and indexing, cataloging, and data entry of GRI Technical Reports using input forms to specific fields. We provided contract personnel to GRI to continue database development services. Subsequently, we provided CD-ROM production services and scanned 90,000 pages of GRI technical reports; this latter project involved inventory and batching, linking of image links to titles, and linking of full-text images to bibliographic files.
Gaylord Library Systems and Services Inc.
Library Systems and Services, Inc. (LSSI), a Gaylord Bros., Inc. company, intended to publish the NICEM database on laser optical disc for distribution to libraries. The data consisted of more than 350,000 records on computer tapes in machine readable form (Dialog Format B) with supporting documentation, updated on a quarterly basis. Access Innovations used editorial processes to ensure that the data was virtually free of error and that it was accurate and consistent.
Getty Research Institute
The Getty Research Institute’s Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts is a comprehensive database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. Access Innovations provided consulting, editorial and machine aided indexing of the abstracts, data entry, research of candidate terms, refinement existing index terms, quality control, and creation of an authority file. Access Innovations; Data Harmony M.A.I. software was used for refinement of the Cumulative Index – Volumes 1-29. We also produced camera-ready pages for Getty’s use.
Getty Avery Index
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals was a joint effort of the Getty Research Institute and Columbia University’s Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. (In 2009, GRI turned the index over to Columbia University.) Access Innovations converted Avery Index data in US MARC format on magnetic tapes to tagged ASCII format in Avery Index Archive Periodicals format specifications and wrote records to 3.5” diskettes.
Group Health Association (GHA)
GHA needed its 16,000-card library catalog digitized. Access Innovations converted the catalog to Star database format. Services included microfilming, blowback, field tagging, and data entry.
Harvard Health Publications (HHP)
Harvard Health was converting its publications from Quark format to XML. Access Innovations provided consulting services and created a DTD schema for HHP newsletters.
Heartland Education Agency
Heartland Education Agency had old source tape data that needed restoration and conversion to a modern data format. Access Innovations restored and converted the data and did programming, final format conversion, error checker programming, and editorial correction.
HighWire Press
Access Innovations evaluated the conversion work on some Oxford Press and other sci-tech journals to XML format using proprietary DTD. We also provided editorial tagging work.
Huston-Tillitson College (now Huston-Tillitson University)
Access Innovations provided consulting to aid a research project. We eviewed software for literature reviews and a computerized field data process, reviewed a plan for literature review/field work database, and advised on and refined needs, development of input/output operating guidelines, and selected data transfer to magnetic tape.
Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute (ITRI)
In its formational stages ITRI needed to outsource custom online searches for their medical and toxicological researchers. We searched the appropriate databases on demand on various topics as requested by ITRI. They also needed to have their library set up and the materials for the research library ordered. We took the existing collection and cataloged it, and then ordered the shelving and other materials needed to get the selfservice library started. As soon as they were able to hire a librarian, they were able to do this work in-house.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
"We had the system up in two hours and in production in less than 2 weeks."
Doug Gischler, IEEE
"We got 90% accuracy on journals out of the box"
Adam D. Philippidis, IEEE
We have been honored to do several projects for the IEEE over the years.
Thesaurus Update. IEEE needed to create a five-year update to its thesaurus. The thesaurus is used both in indexing the IEEE publications and to enable improved searching of IEEE's vast repository of published research and other documentation. The new taxonomy would also be used to structure the content for improved navigation and repurposing, designed to improve membership retention and increase revenues.
Using MAIstro software from the Data Harmony product line, Access Innovations taxonomists reviewed the uncontrolled term lists from the IEEE, six years of all journals, search logs, and other term collections. They also performed extensive hierarchical structuring of the thesaurus to reflect the many changes in the engineering fields over the past few years. The editors identified appropriate new terms and placed them into the thesaurus.
See the full case study here.
Reindexing of Xplore. Using the newly refreshed IEEE thesaurus and the robust IEEE rule base, we reindexed the 2.3 million records in the Xplore database, enabling increased findability in the database through semantically enhanced indexing.
Term analytics for trend forecasting (data mining). In this project we took ten years of data from the IEEE (1.2 million articles) and a similar time period from the US Patent and Trademark Office and the publications covered in the National Library of Medicine Medline database. We then indexed all the records from the three collections using the IEEE thesaurus, the Medical Subject headings, MeSH, and the DTIC (Defense Technical Information Center) thesaurus) to see where the engineering sciences are trending over this ten year period. We produced 430 data maps providing visualization of those trends.
Categorization of the IEEE data for the Xplore database. Using the main 16 categories chosen by the IEEE, we built a data map for 16 categories chosen by IEEE and categorized the entire database (2.3 million records) for their online search clustering
Institute of Gas Technology (IGT)
For two years Access Innovations did all of the production work to create IGT’s Gas Abstracts Database. Access Innovations provided abstracting, indexing, keying, tape production, and delivery of database records, according to IGT’s specifications. We used IGT’s thesaurus as the source of the indexing terms.
Instituto Postuniversitario per lo Studio dell’Organizzazione Aziendale (IPSOA)
IPSOA needed high accuracy, plus handling of some data conversion challenges. The topical area was IPSOA’s Italian legislation database. Access Innovations digitized an extensive collection of legislative documents, at 99.95 percent accuracy. We also provided conversion of 50 million characters of data that IPSOA already had in Compugraphic ASCII on Datagraphix diskettes to IBM-compatible ASCII for use on IPSOA’s Prime computer system.
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP)
For over twenty years, Access Innovations has done abstracting and indexing of records for the Employee Benefits INFOSOURCE™, which provides a centralized resource for timely, comprehensive information about all facets of employee benefit plans. The database covers current and retrospective English-language literature of interest to the employee benefits industry in the United States and Canada as well as other countries around the world. All records include a bibliographic citation and an abstract. A controlled vocabulary is used for indexing. For a full case study of this project, click here.
In another instance, IFEBP needed approximately 11,000 printed records converted to InMagic Plus load format. Using specifications provided by IFEBP, Access Innovations staff keyed and proofread the records.
