Bowker announces Books in Print 2.0
By Paul Biba
Here is part of the press release from Bowker. You can find more details at the Bowker site:
Bowker (a provider of bibliographic information management solutions, announced the beta release of Books In Print 2.0 (BIP 2.0), an enhanced version of the company’s flagship book discovery and collection development platform, Books in-Print. The official global market release of BIP 2.0 is scheduled for early 4Q 2009.
BIP 2.0 is a new dynamic book search and discovery platform that provides librarians, researchers, and library patrons with access to the richest set of book information available in the reference market. The platform combines comprehensive content with powerful visual discovery interfaces from AquaBrowser, Bowker’s popular search platform utilized by more than 500 libraries worldwide. This enables users to discover relevant book information through a variety of cutting-edge collection development capabilities, including edition-grouped search results (FRBR), "word cloud" search visualization, and Web 2.0 tools such as rating, tagging, and other social networking features.
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