Sponsor Spotlights

Say hello to our sponsors 

Over the day and a half A&SL conference and exhibition delegates will have opportunities to informally meet with our sponsors. Stop by the sponsor stands to view details of new products and discuss your information needs.

Platinum Sponsors

IEEE Xplore Digital Library                               

Stand: A
Contact: Paul Canning & Steven Tweedie 
IEEE, a leading authority in the advancement of technology, offers online resources and cutting-edge information in a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics, vital to researchers worldwide. The IEEE publishes 30 percent of the world’s literature in the electrical and electronics engineering and  computer science fields, and has developed over 1,200 active industry standards.  IEEE Xplore Digital Library delivers access to over 3 million full-text articles from highly-cited journals, magazines, and conference proceedings, and offers more than 500 ebooks and 200 online education courses. Visit their website >>>     

                                                        

EBSCO     

Stand: D
Contact: Mari Mo
EBSCO work with hundreds of thousands of libraries around the world to streamline and simplify the increasingly complex job of information management by consolidating collection management and discovery solutions. They offer extensive customer support services, including training and marketing.  They help librarians to ensure content is easily discovered by researchers using a variety of access models via devices from desktops to the latest mobile technologies.  EBSCO's integrated reporting tools help librarians to evaluate the usage and value of their collection, and to facilitate collection management decisions.  EBSCO maintains a title database of over 355,000 serials and we support over 95,000 publishers by consolidating invoices, currencies and claims on a single, easy-to-use platform. Visit their website >>>  


Proquest     

Stand: K 
Contact: Tracey Moore  
ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information.  Key to serious research, the company's products are a gateway to the world’s knowledge – including dissertations, governmental and cultural archives, news, historical collections and ebooks. ProQuest technologies serve users across the critical points in research, helping them discover, access, share, create and manage information. ProQuest includes; Bowker, Dialog, ebrary and Serials Solutions businesses and tools such as the RefWorks, Pivot, Intota and Summon Services. Visit their website >>>  

Gold Sponsors

IET

Stand: C
Contact: Yann Amouroux 
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has over 153,000 members in more than 125 countries. IET membership provides Engineers and Technicians worldwide with a wealth of resources. The IET publishes 28 journals, print and electronic books and also produces the leading bibliographic information database Inspec (with over 14 million records of the world’s scientific and technical literature in physics and engineering). The IET and SciTech eBooks collection will offers around 415 titles in 2014. New in 2014 is IET tv, with over 5,000 videos of lectures, interviews, reports and presentations all dedicated to Engineering and Technology. Visit their website>>>


Royal Society of Chemistry

Stand: E
Contact: Brian O Connor 
The Royal Society of Chemistry is the world’s leading chemistry community, advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. A not-for- profit organisation, we are one of the world’s leading scientific publishers, offering an exceptional range of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, books, databases and publishing services to the chemical sciences community. This is all in keeping with our overriding vision to be the leading voice and trusted partner for science and humanity. Visit their website >>>

Innovative Interfaces 

Stand: D
Contact: Colin Carter 
Innovative Interfaces (www.iii.com) is a leading vendor of integrated library management and discovery systems. Its new Sierra Services Platform has seen a rapid level of adoption with selections by 325 libraries in 19 countries. Sierra provides libraries with efficient workflows across all business areas and resource formats. Built on open architecture, Sierra empowers libraries to develop their own applications. Innovative also works closely with key industry players such as EBSCO to provide best-of-breed discovery solutions, such as Encore Synergy. Come to Stand D and discover more about the exciting developments at Innovative. Visit their website>>> 

Silver Sponsors 

SWETS

Stand: G 
Contact: John Jardine
Swets is a global market leader in managing research information. Swets’ vision is “to improve the delivery and use of knowledge”. From more than twenty offices around the world we actively serve users of information and publishers in over 160 countries. The company’s active role in today’s complex information marketplace has been regularly recognised by E-Content Magazine in their annual ‘100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry’. We are the only information agent to be ISO 9001:2008 certified on a global basis, a standard which affirms the company’s focus on customer service and continuous improvement. Follow Swets on Twitter @SwetsUK  Visit their website >>> 



Burgundy Information Services Ltd.

Stand: H 
Contact: Helen Cooke
Burgundy represents a wide range of Publishers and e-Content Aggregators from around the world. They specialise in negotiating the delivery of scholarly information to academic, corporate and medical libraries and information centres throughout Europe, Israel, South Africa and Turkey. At A&SL 2014 they will be showcasing: 
Mary Ann Liebert Publishers (www.liebertpub.com) is widely acknowledged as the leading publisher in biotechnology and is well known for its authoritative international publications in cutting-edge basic and translational biomedical research, with expanding scope in engineering, business, environment, and legal publications. 
Morgan And Claypool Publishers (http://www.morganclaypool.com/) publish ebooks containing the latest research in Engineering and Computer Science (Synthesis collections) and Life Sciences (Colloquium collections). 
PressReader (http://www.pressdisplay.com) is the world’s largest online newspaper kiosk, now available as an app, providing instant access to hundreds of newspapers and magazines from around the world.

SPIE (www.sdlinfo.org) is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light and the largest international provider of scientific knowledge, including conference proceedings, journals and ebooks in optics, photonics, and imaging. Visit their website>>> 


Taylor & Francis

Stand: F 
Contact; Mark Howard  
Taylor & Francis partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the worlds leading publishers of scholarly jorunals, books ebooks and reference works their content spans all areas of humanities, Social Sciences, science and Technology. From a network of offices in Oxford, Philadelphia, New York, Singapore, Melbourne Beijing, Tokyo, Stockholm, New Delhi and 
Johannesburg, Taylor & Francis staff provide local expertise and support as well as tailored, efficient customer service to their library colleagues. Visit their website>>> 

Bronze Sponsors

IOP Publishing 

Stand: L 
Contact: Helen Ellis    
IOP Publishing provides publications through which leading edge scientific research is distributed worldwide and is one of the leading international publishers in the physical and related sciences. IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics,  a not-for-profit learned society dedicated to the advancement  of scientific knowledge across the globe. Beyond their core journals programme, high-value scientific information is made accessible through an ever-evolving portfolio of community websites, magazines, conference proceedings and a multitude of electronic services. Visit their website>>> 

Dawsonbooks

Stand: I
Contact: Andy Soanes 
Dawsonbooks is a world-class international supplier of academic and professional books, ebooks, shelf ready and information services to academic, professional and research institutions. Dawson is at the forefront of providing innovative solutions which interact between the essential components of the book supply chain. Our service includes shelf ready books to libraries, data enhancements to MARC records, reclassification services, RFID and ‘dawsonera’ their ebook platform. Visit their website>>>


Interleaf Technology

Stand:J
Contact: Martin Mc Govern  
Interleaf are specialists in Open Source Library Systems bringing support for the Koha LMS to the Irish market. Interleaf have 12 special/academic libraries using Koha already and over 50 schools. Koha is a browser based system. There are no client licences to install on individual workstations, simplifying System Administration. Koha supports the full suite of library functions: Cataloguing, Circulation, OPAC, Acquisitions, Serials, SIP etc. in a consistent and easy to use interface. With regular upgrades, system developments respond quickly to user needs. Interleaf supply Koha as a fully hosted system in our Data Centre. Koha is Open Source software and has no licence fees. Come and speak to Martin McGovern at the Interleaf Technology stand and see what Koha can do for your library. Visit their website>>>