“[Reference
Retriever] makes fast but deep 'fishing trip' literature searches
across the internet productive and feasible.”
—Felix Grant,
Scientific Computing World, May/June 2005
“Academicians, life science researchers,
and analysts will derive maximum benefits from this well-designed utility. Clinicians should familiarize themselves
with this new concept; it has potential for major applications in bedside and clinical healthcare.”
—Saty Satya-Murti,
Journal of the American Medical Association, February 18, 2004
“RefViz
can deliver a fresh perspective on the structure and content of
scientific literature.”
—Brian Simboli and Min Zhang,
Science, February 6, 2004
“I
approached RefViz with a certain degree of scepticism, never having
been convinced of the value of visualization, but I have been won over.”
—Tom Wilson,
Information Research, September/October 2003
“RefViz is an amazing program. Just imaging being able to visually
explore literature references. RefViz analyzes large numbers of
references by thematic content and then presents an at-a-glance
overview of the main topics discussed in the reference set. When I
first saw what RefViz can do, I was amazed, and also very impressed
with the power hidden beneath the program's very user-friendly
interface.”
—Dale Farris,
Golden Triangle PC Club Wire, October 8, 2003
“The launch of RefViz by Thomson's ISI ResearchSoft confirms a trend towards visualization
techniques in reporting search results.”
“The problem with search results—even to good, scientifically-constructed, precisely formulated
keyword questions—is that the answers are often too great to comprehend.[...]
And if you are searching for quite precise purposes—in order to create a
bibliography for a research paper for example—then the time spent sorting
through results is out of all proportion to the time spent finding them in the
first place.”
“The Thomson announcement...directly addresses the workflow problems of the academic
community, faced with issues surrounding the compilation of bibliographies,
reading lists, grant proposals etc., and at $300 it is priced like an individual
user product, not a major system installation.”
—David Worlock, Chairman. EPS Insights, 24 September 2003
With offices in London and New York, EPS is the only consultancy which concentrates its whole
attention specifically on the information industry. Unlike any other provider of
this type of service, EPS offers nearly 20 years' experience and relationships
with the key players in the publishing world. For more information, please visit
http://www.epsltd.com
