ContentScanÂ’s Popular Dome Information Services Now Available to OCLC Western Service Center Members
OCLC Western Service Center will distribute ContentScan's ComDisDome, NeuroDome, and CancerDome discipline-specific online information services to its members.
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) November 12, 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 OCLC Western Service Center. OCLC Western Service Center 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 OCLC Western offer the Dome services to its members,” stated Samir Singh, President of ContentScan. “We look forward to working with this leading consortium to bring the benefits of Dome information services to a broader library audience,” he added.
Amy Crawford, Electronic Resource Manager, stated, “We are excited about offering the popular Dome information services to our valued members. Our members are constantly searching for focused research and information services that combine the community of the discipline with its content. Library patrons ultimately receive the maximum benefit, making our members key providers of relevant and timely content.”
About OCLC Western Service Center
OCLC Western, a division of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. utilizes the negotiating power of over 1,900 member libraries to make reference databases available at discounted rates to member and non-member libraries. Consortia discounts on non-OCLC electronic resources like these are part of the growing collection of benefits from OCLC Western Service Center. Serving the states of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington since 1976, OCLC Western Service Center provides continuing training, support and sales for comprehensive library services to its members. For more information, please visit www. oclc. org/western (http://www. oclc. org/western).
About ContentScan
ContentScan, Inc. is a leading provider of online discipline-specific medical and allied health information services to libraries and clinicians. The Company’s flagship Dome™ 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, California. For more information, please visit www. contentscan. com.
Dome, Save & Share, and ContentScan are trademarks of ContentScan, Inc.
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