Aggregating Content from Thousands of Publications into Custom Bibliographic Databases

Challenge:  Aggregate massive amounts of content

Millions of information managers, researchers, students, and clinicians around the world access this online scientific and medical content aggregation and search solution to improve patient care, fuel new discoveries, and enhance ongoing research. This solution offers tremendous depth and breadth of content from the world’s leading publishers, including more than 4,500 ebooks, over 1,200 premium, peer-reviewed journals, and over 100 bibliographic and full-text databases.

Aggregating content that the company licenses from this wide range of sources into a common portal is an extensive undertaking. Specifications must be developed to provide a standard format for displaying content online. Scripts must then be created to automate the process of converting information from existing sources, which are in multiple formats such as XML, HTML, and Tagged ASCII, into a single format and then apply the display specifications.