More on the Recent Dialog ProQuest Launch & ProQuest Platform Preview by Paula Hane
The other day we posted an item (including a video, FAQ's, Screencasts, etc.) about the first release of the new Dialog ProQuest platform. This release is intended for pharmaceutical and biomedical researchers in corporate and government organizations. Of course, much more is on the way.
You'll read about the release earlier this week, how the new product was designed, what it hopes to providers users with, and future plans.
The article includes comments from expert Dialog searchers Amelia Kassel and Marydee Ojala, who also is the editor of Online and conference planner of WebSearch University. Both were on an expert panel that advised Dialog ProQuest
You'll also here from several executives at Dialog and ProQuest including:
+ Lynn Christie, VP of product management, Dialog
+ Lynda James-Gilboe, senior VP, marketing and customer care, ProQuest
+ Bipin Patel, CIO, ProQuest
Two images, one showing the user interface and the other showing a results page, are included.
Paula was able to demo the new service. Here are a couple of her reactions to it:
While I’m not a pharmaceutical searcher, I did enjoy trying some searches and playing with the interface. It was easy to just click and go—very intuitive and it offered fast response times. One of the limiters to narrow results is a date range option displayed as a bar chart. Hovering over one of the years displays the number of records available in that time frame. Drag the slider to change the time frame. Cool. There’s also a Find Similar feature that lets you paste in text from a document to find similar items...Another nice feature—while hovering over the Preview button for the article in the results set, a box with the summary will display. When viewing an article, a box in the right hand pane suggests “other items you might like,” based on metadata.
Finally, the article also contains information about the roll-out of and migration to the new ProQuest platform.
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