Thomson ISI ResearchSoft Releases New Data Analysis Tool—RefViz™

World’s Most Popular Bibliography Software Maker Adds Visualization Tool for Mining Reference Literature
 

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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 Knowledge^SM—the single Web environment from which researchers can access, analyze, and manage information. For more information about ISI, visit www.isinet.com.