ContentScanÂ’s Discipline-specific Dome Information Services Now Available to WALDO Members
WALDO will offer the Dome information services to its members at a discounted price.
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) February 21, 2004 -
–ContentScan, Inc., publisher of the popular Dome family of allied health and medical online information services announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with WALDO, the Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization. WALDO will offer consortial pricing for the Dome services to its members.
Each discipline-specific Dome service enables library patrons to increase their research productivity by identifying pertinent and relevant sources of information with greater confidence, convenience, and speed. The Dome service allows a user to search and retrieve information from multiple content categories within a focused profession, including relevant journal articles, books, grants, authors, web resources, and institutions, from one convenient location.
The Dome delivers more of what patrons need quickly and easily:
• Content is vetted by experts in a discipline so users receive focused, high-quality relevant information
• Broader exposure to the content and community of the discipline provides exponential increase in information gathering
• Continual updates keep users connected with the latest information
• Save & Share feature lets patrons save, annotate, and export research results to personal web pages for sharing
Resources included in each Dome are refereed and selected based on their relevance to their fields. Each item within the Dome is linked to related items, providing researchers with the most richly networked and easily navigable representation of their disciplineÂ’s content and community available today.
“We are pleased to have WALDO offer the Dome services to its members at favorable prices and terms,” stated Samir Singh, President of ContentScan. He continued, “We look forward to working with this proactive and innovative consortium to bring the benefits of Dome information services to a broader library audience.”
John Stromquist, Director of WALDO, stated, “We are excited about offering the comprehensive Dome information services to our valued members. We believe that our members have a need to provide their patrons with focused research and information services that combines the community of the discipline with its content.”
About WALDO
WALDO is a consortium representing academic, school, public, and special libraries in New York. Founded in 1982, WALDO is a non-profit consortium representing 180 academic libraries, 350 public libraries, 1600 K12 libraries, 150 hospital libraries, and 40 special libraries. For more information, please visit www. waldolib. org.
About ContentScan
ContentScan, Inc. is a leading provider of online discipline-specific medical and allied health information services to libraries and clinicians. The companyÂ’s flagship DomeTM product line employs advanced automated search and selection processes, strong content partnerships, and discipline-specific expert editorial input to provide a focused, productive, and unparalleled search experience for both expert and beginning users. Founded in 2001, ContentScan is a privately-held company based in San Diego, CA. For more information, please visit www. contentscan. com.
Dome, ComDisDome, NeuroDome, CancerDome, Save & Share, and ContentScan are trademarks of ContentScan, Inc.
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