INFORMATION QUEST - A NEW WEB-BASED INFORMATION ACCESS SERVICE

The Faxon Company announces the launch of a new electronic information access service called Information Quest (IQ). Developed by Faxon's sister company, EOS International, IQ provides one-stop worldwide access to hundreds of electronic journals in PDF format via the World Wide Web, as well as over 7,000,000 Table of Contents records in the Faxon Finder database. Document delivery support for the Table of Contents database will be provided by the UnCover Company, a leading document delivery supplier.

IQ's powerful searching capabilities enable users to search by author, title, or subject, and provide keyword indexing throughout the entire text of the article. Results of each search are relevancy ranked for easy scanning. Information Quest utilizes two powerful indexing and retrieval technologies, Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing and Natural Language Processing, to provide superior searching results. A Boolean search option is available as well.

Key Features

• Access to full-text, PDF formatted articles from over 500 major journals
  
• Access to over 7,000,000 table of contents entries from over 12,000 journal titles published since 1990
  
• Adaptive Pattern Recognition and Natural Language Processing retrieval capabilities
  
• Query by example searches
  
• Ability to build successive queries based on results of previous searches
  
• Individual and group user password administration, as well as IP address security
  
• Detailed usage reports
  
• On-line help screens
  
• Future ability to link to local holdings
  
• SDI-like notification service to alert users to new articles in their field
  
• Online electronic journal subscription and management

For more information, visit the Faxon website at http://www.faxon.com/, the IQ website at http://www.eiq.com/, or call Lynne Karle, Assistant Sales Manager, Information Quest, at 800-422-3223, ext. 135.

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