Vendor Update

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Vendor Update
Special Libraries Association Annual
Conference Tuesday, June 13, 2000 Cliff
Pierce Director, Publisher Relations
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Expanded Distribution

• Acquisitions
• IPI - International Sales Agent
• Chadwyck-Healey - UK-based electronic publisher
• Infonautics - eLibrary product and creation of
  bigchalk.com

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New Product Development

• Web Archive Solutions
• ProQuest CoursePacks/CasePacks
• Digital Vault

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Web Archive Solutions

• Infonautics
• ProQuest SiteBuilder
• Integrated into the look and feel of the
  publishers website
• Include e-commerce

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ProQuest CoursePacks/CasePacks

• Extension of our ProQuest Service
• Expand our penetration of the academic market by
  moving beyond the library and into the classroom
• Provide a collection of articles to be used by
  students in conjunction with specific courses
• Existing pre-defined content packages are
  available for use or the course instructor can
  create their own
• Significantly expands the traditional market for
  print CoursePacks and CasePacks
• Print Market Size - 300 million annually
  (declining)

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Digital VaultTM Opening the Vault on 500 Years
of History
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Microfilm Collection

• Bell Howell Information and Learnings
  microfilm vault is the largest commercially
  available collection
• 20,000 periodicals, 7,000 newspapers and 400
  Research Collections and 1,000,000 dissertations
• 3 climate controlled underground vaults
• Over 5.5 billion page images
• Using the microfilm contained in the vaults to
  create the largest digital collection

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Why Digitize Microfilm?

• Microfilm is inconvenient to use
• Expand distribution
• Enable new research methods
• Allows for the creation of derivative products

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How Is It Done?

• Scan from the master film negative at 400 bpi
  binary
• Store images in industry standard TIFF format
• Zone each page to create individual article
  images
• OCR each article to create searchable ASCII text
• Deliver each article to the screen

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Opening the Vault

• First Digital Vault product released 12/98 -
  Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• EEBO covers 230 years of English printing
• Collection represents nearly 23 million pages
• Focus in 2000
• American Periodical Series
• Gerritsen Collection on Womens History
• Genealogy and Local History
• Modern Periodical Archive
• Newspapers