Increase Exposure and Usage with the
CSA Illustrata Search Widget
The new CSA Illustrata Search Widget enhances research with easy access to CSA Illustrata databases. Subscribers of CSA Illustrata™: Natural Sciences and/or CSA Illustrata™: Technology can now add a search box to any Web page at their institution that lets visitors to the page instantly conduct a search of tables and figures to identify articles with relevant findings. The CSA Illustrata Search Widget is a handy tool that can enhance your institution's library subject pages, current topics library pages, college department pages, or learning management system course pages.



It's very easy to set up through the CSA Illumina Administrative Module, and the CSA Illustrata Search Widget allows you to pre-populate the search with specific search criteria. Once you have set up your widget, please tell us how it works for you and your campus community. We want to know!

New! CSA Illustrata: Technology Expands Research Opportunities
Like its predecessor CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences, CSA Illustrata: Technology offers groundbreaking deep indexing that pinpoints articles with high-value tables and figures that are linked to full-text articles. As you know, deep indexing helps researchers to instantly identify findings that are critical to their work and make discoveries in unexpected sources.

CSA Illustrata: Technology complements CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences and can be used together to explore wide-ranging topics and journals spanning fields of study. CSA Illustrata: Technology covers key subject areas including materials science, aerospace, high technology, physics, mathematics, architecture, and civil, earthquake, environmental, electrical, mechanical, biomechanical, and biochemical engineering, etc. Plus, CSA Illustrata: Technology includes technology-specific graphs and illustrations--allowing users to see the actual data collected, observed, or modeled and quickly determine its relevance to their specific work.

Peer-Reviewed Journals from Leading Publishers Added
ProQuest is collaborating with Emerald Group Publishing Limited, the world's leading publisher of management research, to offer deep indexing for 68 Emerald journals through CSA Illustrata.

This is in addition to thousands of international journals from hundreds of leading publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Springer, and more--including recently-signed Smithers Rapra Technology Limited, for four leading plastics and rubber science journals.

Library Journal Webinar Now Available
If you didn't have the opportunity to attend the live webinar in May, we encourage you to take just a few minutes now to watch the recording Deep Indexing--A New Approach to Searching Scholarly Literature.

Hear the panel of scholars, librarians, and faculty as they discuss how deep indexing--found in CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences and now in CSA Illustrata: Technology--is transforming research and maximizes journal subscriptions with linking to the full-text articles.

New! "Telling the CSA Illustrata Story" and
Other Tools that Maximize Your Subscription
CSA Illustrata's seamless navigation enhances research and teaching by locating the most relevant results across a variety of subject areas virtually effortless.


           Video            Researcher Demo         Resources

We've developed a variety of tools to help you promote the availability of CSA Illustrata at your institution and assist with training:

• New! Telling the CSA Illustrata Story
• New! Library Best Practices
• Online Video
• Online Demo
• Email to Promote CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences to Faculty and Researchers
• Webinars and On-Site Training
• Additional Information

• 2008 CODiE Award Winner for Best Online Science or Technology Service
  
  
• CHOICE 2007 Outstanding Academic Title
  
  
• A Library Journal Best of Reference Pick of 2007
  
  
• Ranked third in ten, just after smartphone and social networking innivations, as "...one of the most important products of the year (2007)..."
  -- Paula Hane, Information Today

In a recent review from The Charleston Advisor, Meris A. Mandernach and Jody Condit Fagan of Carrier Library at Virginia's James Madison University said that "including graphical results with text citations is of valuable assistance in simply understanding the quality and nature of results." Later in the review, they added that some of the faculty at James Madison University had been trying to get their students to understand how to present data effectively in visual components, and for them, "Illustrata epitomizes why doing so is important and valuable for researchers."

"With traditional databases, you never know what figures and tables you're going to get. Until you look the article up, you don't know what it's going to have." -- Dr. Samuel Flaxman, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Princeton University

"It's much easier to find the information; it's much, much better." -- Dr. Marco Columbini, Professor of Biology, University of Maryland

"I waste a lot of time looking through papers which look like they contain some data, but they don't ... I definitely see this database as a significant improvement." -- Dr. Maria Prokopenko, Geochemist, Princeton University

"...Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers." -- M. Burright, CHOICE, August 2007