Swets Information Services, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to provide innovative, cost-effective e-access and management solutions in today's complex electronic environment, will debut SwetsWise Searcher at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, January 20-23, 2006. More than 10,000 top information professionals from all areas of librarianship and information technology will attend this year's conference.
"Organizations around the globe recognize that efficient access to the most current and relevant information is a key component of success, yet they continue to struggle with information overload and its associated costs," stated Ezra Ernst, CEO of Swets North America. "SwetsWise Searcher's unique clustering technology offers unparalleled search and discovery capabilities, providing access to diverse sources and dynamically categorizing results, making it fast and easy for users to find the content they are seeking."
Powered by Vivisimo's award-winning metasearch and clustering technology, SwetsWise Searcher eliminates the need for users to wade through hundreds of search results to find the most relevant information, improving productivity. SwetsWise Searcher automatically organizes long lists of search results from disparate sources "on the fly" into dynamically built, meaningful categories, or "clusters," that are viewed from a familiar folder structure—all without the cost and complexity of building static taxonomies. As a result, users can start with simple searches and let the clusters do the work for them, quickly navigating to the most relevant information while also discovering content, trends and patterns that are often overlooked.
SwetsWise Searcher requires no special skills or training and includes a free connector to SwetsWise Online Content, one of the most extensive collections of e-journals currently available. Additional features include de-duplicated search results, customizable ranking of clusters, and a "show in clusters" feature that highlights every category containing a selected result.
Swets will conduct on-site demonstrations of SwetsWise Searcher at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in booth 1729.
About Swets Information Services
Swets is the world's leading subscription services company, connecting the supply and demand chain that exists between publishers and institutions, libraries and information centers. The company provides services for customers from academic, government, corporate and medical institutions. Swets has been operating successfully for over 100 years. The company has offices in over 20 countries, servicing clients and publishers from over 160 nations. Those offices manage more than 1.8 million subscriptions, with half of those related to electronic subscriptions, between some 65,000 publishers and over 60,000 clients, including one in three Fortune 500 companies. Swets is the only subscription agent to be ISO 9001:2000 certified on a global basis, which serves as a significant endorsement of its ability to provide clients and publishers with the kind of speedy, reliable and efficient service methods they expect to receive from an intermediary.