ArticleFinder is similar to GoogleScholar in that STM content from Medline/PubMed and publishers can be searched in multiple ways from one online location
Infotrieve has converted ArticleFinder, its online scientific, technical, and medical (STM) database with more than 26 million citations and eight million abstracts from over 54,000 journals, to a free access model.
The move provides scientists and researchers, who work for corporations and are subject to different copyright regulations than their academic counterparts, with an end-to-end system for conducting STM searches across literature from multiple providers.
The solution seamlessly retrieves full-text scholarly journal articles that they need on a pay-per-view basis.
ArticleFinder is similar to GoogleScholar in that STM content from Medline/PubMed and publishers can be searched in multiple ways from one online location.
However, ArticleFinder differs from GoogleScholar in many ways, including: the total number of copyrighted articles that can be retrieved; the ability to add articles to a single shopping cart and continue searching; fulfillment from a single document delivery provider; and the absence of advertising on results pages.
"ArticleFinder meets STM professionals' need for free access to a single online environment for discovering and ordering journal articles rather than bouncing back and forth between multiple websites," said Jenny Connelly, Infotrieve vice-president of marketing and product management.
"Providing a single source retrieval option for STM content is the next big challenge in user satisfaction for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and others, whether they partner with a company like Infotrieve or attempt to find another way to accomplish this objective".
Utilising ArticleFinder in conjunction with the Infotrieve Virtual Library technology platform, corporate clients can also securely include their holdings and electronic journal subscriptions within user searches in order to increase the body of content that is searched and minimise duplicate purchases.
While ArticleFinder searches are executed at the citation and abstract level rather than the full-text, Infotrieve does provide full-text searching with 'key word in context' previews within the life science research centre.
Infotrieve, is a provider of specialised search, electronic laboratory notebook software, pay-per-view content services, and content management technology.
The company supports the research and development work of leading corporations within the life sciences and other R and D intensive industries that pioneer important scientific, technical, and medical (STM) breakthroughs.
Infotrieve business solutions span research and development, library and information services, and product marketing.
Infotrieve was founded in 1988 and has offices located throughout North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
