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The British Standards Institution (BSI) is the leading national standards organization helping organizations to successfully implement best practice, manage business critical decisions and achieve excellence through the development and publication of standards and related information products.

British Standards Online (BSOL) is BSI’s flagship database of standards. Updated daily, this user-friendly resource is the most comprehensive and authoritative source of British, adopted European and international standards on the market. Delivering information directly to your desktop (24/7), this growing resource contains bibliographic details of over 47,000 publications and allows you to download the full-text of any standard. For further information visit www.bsigroup.com/bsol

Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Known for our accurate and authoritative reference content and our intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, we create and maintain more than 600 online resources.  These include The TLS Historical Archive 1902 – 2005, Financial Times Historical Archive 1888 – 2006, The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003, State Papers Online 1509-1714, Part 1 & 2 Gale Virtual Reference Library and Academic OneFile, as well as reference resources in print.  Please visit www.gale.cengage.co.uk for further information.

Hyperwords makes all the words you work with interactive - not only links - significantly increasing the efficiency of your knowledge work flow. Available for Firefox, Chrome, Windows (Vista & 7 running on all major programs) and for Web Servers.

Mendeley helps to manage and share academic knowledge: Mendeley Desktop is free academic software (Windows, Mac, Linux) for managing and sharing research papers. Mendeley Web is a free research network which lets you manage research papers online, discover research trends and connect to like-minded academics.

Do you need to streamline workflows? Provide round the clock access to resources from any location? Defend the value of your LIS?

Soutron delivers up-to-the-minute, web-based solutions which bring sophisticated, user-friendly features within easy reach of smaller libraries and realise efficiencies across large, multiple sites, with no need for capital expenditure and no wait for IT support. Contact Soutron to find out how.

Adept Scientific is a World leader supplying bibliographic software for engineering, scientific and research applications.

Customers include major UK corporations, government bodies and educational institutions, with users ranging from engineers, scientists, researchers and academics.

Partnering with Thomson Reuters’, Adept Scientific supplies and supports their bibliographic range in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Nordic regions.

Come and see Enquire, which is our new enquiry system designed to improve and prove your value to your organisation by helping you record, re-use, monitor and manage your enquiries and keep track of costs. Statistical management reports will show how you are meeting performance targets and SLAs or simply prove how much time you spend helping your users and what type of enquiries you handle.

Encyclopaedia Britannica has been a leader in reference and education publishing since 1768. Our outlook is shaped by a tradition of excellence and an understanding of what knowledge seekers need in the digital age. Whether looking for text, images, videos or maps, you can be confident in the quality and accuracy of the content.

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. In addition to publishing over 4,600 new books each year, Oxford Journals, a Division of Oxford University Press, publishes well over 220 journals, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organisations.

The Research Information Network investigates how efficient and effective the information services provided for the UK research community are, how they are changing, and how they might be improved for the future. We help to ensure that researchers in the UK benefit from world-leading information services. www.rin.ac.uk

We publish the 18 journals of the IMechE Journals Collection, which also includes the IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996, all dedicated to the very best in mechanical engineering research. For members of JISC special offers are available for the IMechE Journals Collection and the IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996.

Springer is the second-largest publisher of journals in the science, technology, and medicine (STM) sector and the largest publisher of STM books. Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media, one of the world's leading suppliers of scientific and specialist literature.

ebrary helps libraries get the most out of their digital content. The company offers a growing selection of more than 186,300 digital books and other valuable content from over 425 of the world's leading publishers. Additionally, ebrary offers e-publishing services for customers to cost-effectively distribute their own PDF content. All ebrary products and services can be integrated and delivered via a single easy-to-use interface that includes powerful tools for discovering and managing information. With ebrary InfoTools, every word in the ebrary system is a network to other online resources, extending their value while increasing end-user knowledge and efficiencies.

BBC Monitoring provides news and information based on our round-the-clock monitoring of TV, radio, press, internet and news agency sources worldwide, providing wide-ranging and insightful reporting to help you to follow international developments and emerging trends.

We show not only what the media reports but how they are telling the story.

Cambridge University Press publish a suite of high quality, dynamic and innovative online products and collections which offer lecturers, researchers, teachers and students a new dimension of access and usability to our extensive scholarly and educational content. An extensive catalogue of eBooks is available through our dedicated platform, Cambridge Books Online

ProQuest creates specialised information resources and technologies that propel successful research and lifelong learning.  A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the culmination of experience from many respected brands, including CSA, UMI, Chadwyck-Healey, SIRS, and eLibrary. 

Serials Solutions is a company founded by a librarian for librarians which offers a complete and integrated e-resource access and management solution that enables libraries to provide the best research experiences for patrons.

Now you can take advantage of data, access, management, and assessment tools that have been designed using consistent software architecture, developed from the ground up to work together, and delivered using state-of-the-art Software as a Service (SaaS) technology.

CILIP is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. We provide practical support for members throughout their careers and speak out on behalf of the profession. A key part of our work is to support members’ personal and professional development, through internationally recognised qualifications, training and networking

SLA is a global organisation for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves over 11,000 members in 75 countries, including corporate, academic, and government information managers. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy and networking initiatives. SLA Europe represents SLA’s members in Europe and provides information professionals in Europe with unique networking and learning opportunities through regular meetings and social events

UKeiG is a well-established and active group for information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources, offering a wide range of practical workshops, seminars and forums. Updates and information on UKeiG activities are available via many platforms including their website, blog, email discussion list, RSS feeds and Twitter.

SFIS – Swedish Association for Information Specialists – is a nonprofit organisation for information management professionals. The Association has some 900 members from private and public sectors, universities, government and large and small companies. It aims to improve members’ professional skills, helping them stay at the cutting edge of global changes.

Computers in Libraries is a monthly magazine that serves as a showcase.and forum for library tech professionals to share their technological projects and success stories with one another. The magazine’s reader-friendly features and columns focus on practical applications of technology in public, school, academic, corporate, and special libraries. CIL is the.librarian’s only independent, peer-to-peer resource on library systems and.automation technology. It’s all tech, all the time.

The Electronic Library Editor, Dr David Raitt, is an Internet Librarian.International Programme Chair and invites delegates and presenters to.submit manuscripts for possible publication in this leading international.journal – www.emeraldinsight.com/el.htm. Submit online at.http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tel

FUMSI helps everyone within an organisation Find, Use, Manage and.Share Information. Practical articles written by experts in the field, a Q&A.forum, topic-focused reports and the monthly FUMSI Magazine support.continuous learning to raise the value of information work of all kinds.

FreePint publishes resources and websites to help knowledge workers.interact more effectively with information. Sign up for free newsletters, browse reports for purchase and connect with other info pros worldwide

Information Today (IT), a monthly news publication, keeps information.professionals “in the know” about news and industry trends that shape our.world. IT offers hard-hitting features that provide insight and analysis into.the world of information technology, while delivering updates about the.latest innovative services and products. IT tackles the news from all angles.to keep our readers informed on all fronts.

ONLINE: Exploring Technology & Resources for Information Professionals.is written for both experienced and novice information professionals –librarians in academic, corporate, and government work settings; serious.researchers; webmasters; site designers; content managers; and those.involved in knowledge/information management. It publishes practical.articles, product reviews, case studies, and informed opinions about.selecting, using, manipulating, and managing digital information products.

Research Information is Europe’s premier magazine, website, and.electronic newsletter, for those working in publishing, information.management, or libraries. Distributed worldwide in print and digital formats, it tracks developments in information management, electronic publishing, libraries, database searching and ebooks, across science, technology, industry and the social sciences.