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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Carlsbad, CA, USA - September 10, 2003—Today
Thomson ISI ResearchSoft releases a new visualization tool for the
researcher’s desktop developed in collaboration with OmniViz, Inc.
RefViz provides users with a powerful way to explore
reference literature visually for major themes and topics.
References can be moved easily between RefViz and any of the
ISI ResearchSoft products—EndNote®,
ProCite® and Reference Manager®—to
publish results faster.
“RefViz is a wonderful program that allows one to easily
separate the ‘wheat’ from the ‘chaff.’”—David J. Smith, Ph.D.
“RefViz actually pointed out references I had missed despite
extensive research.”—John Ward, student
“Using text analysis and visualization in concert with bibliographic
software helps researchers evaluate vast amounts of references used
for managing projects and publishing,” said David Kochalko,
President of ISI ResearchSoft. “RefViz is an excellent
example of the complementary tools we are developing and licensing
to improve the research and publishing experience of our customers.”
Explore reference literature visually
Today’s academicians, students and researchers are faced with an
overwhelming amount of information to organize, track and understand
with too little time to digest it. RefViz, a text analysis
and visualization software program, provides an intuitive framework
for exploring reference collections based on content. With an
at-a-glance overview, users can orient themselves with the
literature to reveal trends and associations in references.
RefViz provides a suite of tools for detailed exploration of
bibliographies and online search results that helps users retain
important references otherwise lost when narrowing a search or
skimming a list.
View references in Galaxy and Matrix landscapes
The Galaxy view organizes references according to how they are
related conceptually and provides an overview of how each reference
is related to every other reference. The Matrix view lets users
review subjects discussed together in the literature by highlighting
the co-occurrence of key terms. This helps users understand the
overlap and associations between concepts. With additional RefViz tools,
users can apply their expertise to fine tune their analyses.
Publish results faster
Used together with EndNote, ProCite and Reference
Manager, RefViz provides an additional level of analysis
to existing reference collections and lets users find the most relevant
citations for their papers. Researchers, writers and students depend
on EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager to locate
bibliographic data and create bibliographies for curricula vitae,
manuscripts, grant proposals, term papers and other publications.
Using these products, writers save countless hours of typing and
interpreting style requirements of scholarly publications by simply
selecting the publication by name and generating a perfectly formatted
document. The combination of text analysis and bibliographic management
makes these products ideal for any discipline whether in the sciences
or the arts and humanities.
Pricing and Availability
RefViz is designed for Windows NT/ME/2000/XP. The list
price of RefViz is $299.95 USD. A list of international
distributors is available at www.refviz.com. Special introductory
prices are available from Thomson ISI ResearchSoft and authorized
resellers worldwide. A version for Macintosh OS X is planned. For
more information on RefViz, visit
www.refviz.com.
About OmniViz
OmniViz, Inc. (www.omniviz.com)
provides visualization and decision support software to the life
science, healthcare and chemical industries. Sophisticated software
solutions from OmniViz help clients transform raw data quickly into
high-value information for research and new product development.
Founded in 2000 as a subsidiary of Battelle, OmniViz is based in Maynard, Massachusetts.
About
Thomson ISI ResearchSoft
ISI
ResearchSoft (www.isiresearchsoft.com)
is a division of Thomson ISI. ISI ResearchSoft publishes bibliographic
software products for the desktop—EndNote,
ProCite and Reference Manager
used by over a million researchers, students and librarians worldwide
and for the Web—WriteNote™, the research
and writing tool for students. These products search remote databases
and library catalogues on the Internet, import references into and
organize personal libraries of citations, and produce papers written
in word processors with correctly formatted in-text citations and
bibliographies.
About
Thomson and Thomson ISI
The
Thomson Corporation, with 2002 revenues of $7.8 billion, is a global
leader in providing value-added information, software tools and
applications to business and professional customers in the fields of
scientific research and healthcare, law, tax, accounting, financial
services, higher education, reference information, corporate
training and assessment. The Corporation's common shares are listed
on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC).
As part of Thomson, ISI® provides essential, high quality Web-based
information to over seven million researchers, information
specialists, and administrators in diverse fields. ISI produces ISI
Web of KnowledgeSM—the single Web environment from which
researchers can access, analyze, and manage information. For more
information about ISI, visit
www.isinet.com.
Marketing
Contact:
Nancy Matus
ISI ResearchSoft
760.438.5526, ext. 332
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