Northern Light Adds 4,000 Bio-Pharma, Health Sciences and General Business News and Journal Sources from EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection and Business Source Corporate now available for mutual customers in Northern Light SinglePoint strategic research portals
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Light
(www.northernlight.com) today announced a partnership with EBSCO
Publishing (EBSCO) (www.ebscohost.com) that will let mutual
customers directly search and access more than 4,000
bio-pharmaceutical, health sciences and general business magazines,
journals and other news sources through Northern Light
SinglePoint(TM) strategic research portals. SinglePoint users who
also subscribe to EBSCO's Biomedical Reference Collection(TM) and
Business Source® Corporate may now opt to have that content
integrated with their organization's strategic research
portal.
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SinglePoint is the only turnkey enterprise search application
that provides centralized search, analysis, and access for diverse
sources of internal, external, and licensed market intelligence.
Offered in a secure, hosted, user self-service portal environment,
SinglePoint is customized to the precise market research and
competitive intelligence purposes of each of Northern Light's
enterprise clients.
Biomedical Reference Collection provides managers and clinical
researchers in industries such as bio-pharmaceutical, medical
device manufacturing, biogenetics and public health with full-text
access to more than 1,000 journals covering disciplines from
biomedicine and health sciences to the health care system and
pre-clinical sciences.
Business Source Corporate is designed to meet the diverse
information needs of corporations. The database contains full text
from nearly 3,000 quality magazines and journals, including general
business periodicals, trade publications and top management
journals. In addition, Business Source Corporate provides access to
periodicals, country economic reports, company profiles, and
industry reports. For mutual subscribers, Business Source Corporate
pairs nicely with the thousands of business-oriented media sources
and industry-authority blogs contained in Northern Light Business
News.
EBSCO Publishing is the world's premier database aggregator
serving the content needs of corporations, associations and
organizations of all types. EBSCO offers a suite of nearly 300
full-text and secondary research databases providing content from
tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books,
monographs, reports and various other publication types from
renowned publishers. Databases provide information for areas
ranging from research and development and corporate learning to
departmental and industry-specific topics.
EBSCO Publishing President Tim Collins said, "EBSCO Publishing
provides a wealth of information to organizations and researchers.
Allowing access via SinglePoint will help mutual users make the
rich resources they receive from EBSCOhost a part of their day
using the latest information from journals and magazines to expand
their business and market awareness."
"The addition to SinglePoint of this EBSCO content is a
significant value-add to our clients," C. David Seuss, Northern
Light's CEO, said. "For example, the pharmaceutical industry relies
heavily on analysis of and discovery from comprehensive
repositories of research documents for drug discovery and
pharmaceutical market research - and nobody offers a richer library
of such content than EBSCO."
Beyond providing a unified search index of all content contained
in the portal, SinglePoint also offers the only automated "meaning
extraction" application designed specifically for market
intelligence, business analysis, product research, and market
research. "Meaning extraction" imbues a search application with an
in-depth understanding of the searched material. SinglePoint
identifies meaning-loaded business concepts in a results list -
business issues, strategic scenarios, companies, venture-funded
companies, technologies, markets, job titles, government agencies,
identified phrases, and research sources - to help researchers
quickly identify and drill down into the most relevant documents
for purposes of their specific inquiry.
About Northern Light
Northern Light has been providing strategic research portals,
business research content, and search technology to global
enterprises since 1996. Northern Light's current clients include
Fortune 100 market leaders in information technology,
pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, energy, financial services and
insurance, transportation, retailing, and electronics.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a development
center in St. Petersburg, Russia, Northern Light Group LLC is a
profitable, privately-held, self-funded company with more than 50
employees.
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Web Site: http://www.northernlight.com/
Posted: October 2009
