Report from the Exhibits Floor at SLA

I spoke with many vendors at the SLA exhibits. Here, in no particular order, are some of the things I found out.

The 2007 print edition of the NAICS Manual has been published but it is not yet available for searching online. Major changes were made in the telecommunications sector as well as significant additions in biotechnology and new classifications for REITS. Details are available at http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html.

Euromonitor’s GMID database has a new interface. We will be upgrading to the new version sometime this summer.

The Financial Times is offering a new academic package for students and faculty which includes access to the Financial Times in a digital version for the latest news (three weeks) as well as access to the archival version of FT.com. Villanova University describes how the partnership works at their website.

The Economist and Gale are partnering to make available a historical digital archive of The Economist magazine. The product will be launched sometime this fall. Pricing has not been determined.

The World Bank is launching a new database called GEM, Global Economic Monitor, featuring forecasts of country economic data and commodity prices. It will be the first time the World Bank provides online access to their forecasts. They are offering free trials before the launch which is expected at the end of this year. More info here.

ThomsonGale has been working with Groxis and will announce at ALA later this month a new federated search tool built with the visualization, clustering and filtering search features of Grokker.