Parametric Search Within the Institute for Psychology Information Guides
Students and Academics Through Over 800,000 Documents on PsychSpider Search
Engine
CAMBRIDGE, England and SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced that the
Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) at Trier University has
extended its license to include Parametric Search on PsychSpider, a
free-of-charge search engine.
ZPID's PsychSpider helps keep psychology students, academics and
professionals abreast of new developments in the sector by assisting users
to swiftly and effortlessly locate relevant content. The clever search
engine searches over 800,000 documents and indexes a wide range of
psychology resources including specialized libraries, websites and
publications, providing an invaluable reference point for students,
psychologists, pedagogical information centres, research and educational
organizations. Users are now benefiting from Autonomy's Parametric
functionality to instantly locate sought-after content by selecting its
document type, language or theme from a drop-down menu. Autonomy's
next-generation technology also automatically groups conceptually similar
content in thematic clusters enabling users to effortlessly browse the
extensive ZPID database, boosting efficiency and encouraging repeat visits.
PsychSpider identifies and classifies conceptually similar documents
featuring difficult psychology terminology. For example, PsychSpider would
infer that a psychology student searching for 'anorexia' might also be
interested to see materials covering topics such as 'bulimia', 'eating
disorder', 'identity crisis' or 'depression'.
"ZPID constantly strives to keep its content-hungry audience abreast of
new developments in the field of psychology," said Dr. Erich
Weichselgartner, Deputy Scientific Director at ZPID. "PsychSpider, powered
by Autonomy, allows ZPID to provide the psychology community with
up-to-date, specialist knowledge thus intelligently addressing the
challenge of information overload. What's more, contrary to legacy search
engines, there are no bought hits or commercial ranking manipulations on
our search engine. Only the very relevant information sources of first-rate
scientific quality are included in the index, which guarantees that the
highest standards of scientific research are observed."
PsychSpider's impressive index of over 800,000 documents is expected to
double in the next few years, and with 10,000 subscribers every month ZPID
is becoming a key resource for the psychology community worldwide. Future
plans include the implementation of federated search to bring together
distinct search engines and the automation of the selection of content for
the scientific search index.
"Spearheading the Meaning Based Computing movement, Autonomy enables
proactive organizations like ZPID to harness the true value of digitalized
information assets," said Victor Cohen, Autonomy's Regional Manager for
Northern Europe. "Innovative projects like ZPID's PsychSpider search engine
unambiguously demonstrate the significance of meaning-based technologies
for modern scientific research."
About the ZPID
The 'Zentrum fur Psychologische Information und Dokumentation' (ZPID)
is the national institution for documentation and information for
psychology in the German-speaking countries. It comprehensively informs
academics and practitioners on a daily basis about psychology relevant
literature, test procedures, audiovisual media and good resources in the
internet. The ZPID is part of the University of Trier and is also a Leibniz
Institute. Please visit http://www.zpid.de for more information.
About Autonomy
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L) is a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise and is spearheading the
meaning-based computing movement. Autonomy's technology forms a conceptual
and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data including
unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's
software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise
applications including information access technology, BI, CRM, KM, call
center solutions, rich media management, information risk management
solutions and security applications, and is recognized by industry analysts
as the clear leader in enterprise search.
Autonomy's customer base comprises of more than 17,000 global companies
and organizations including: 3, ABN AMRO, AOL, BAE Systems, BBC, Bloomberg,
Boeing, Citigroup, Coca Cola, Daimler Chrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson,
Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd TSB, NASA, Nestle, the New York Stock
Exchange, Reuters, Shell, T-Mobile, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission. Autonomy also has over 300 OEM partners and more than 400 VARs
and Integrators, numbering among them leading companies such as BEA,
Business Objects, Citrix, EDS, IBM Global Services, Novell, Satyam, Sybase,
Symantec, TIBCO, Vignette and Wipro. The company has offices worldwide.
The Autonomy Group includes: ZANTAZ, the leader in the archiving,
e-Discovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets;
Cardiff, a leading provider of Intelligent Document solutions; etalk,
award-winning provider of enterprise-class contact center products, Virage,
a visionary in rich media management and security and surveillance
technology and Meridio, a leading provider of records management software.
Autonomy and the Autonomy logo are registered trademarks or trademarks
of Autonomy Corporation plc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Press contact
Dr. Erich Weichselgartner
Zentrum fur Psychologische Information und Dokumentation
Universitat Trier
D- 54286 Trier
Tel: +49-651-201-2056
Fax: +49-651-201-2604
Email: wga@zpid.de
http://www.zpid.de
Autonomy Editorial Contacts:
Rowan Gardner
Autonomy (UK)
+44(0)1223-448000
rowang@autonomy.com
Edward Bridges
Financial Dynamics (UK)
+44(0)207-831-3113
edward.bridges@fd.com
Sayo Ogundiran
Cohn & Wolfe (US)
+1-415-365-8552
cwna-autonomy@cohnwolfe.com
Bite Communications (UK)
+44(0)20-8834-3518
autonomy@bitepr.com
SOURCE Autonomy Corporation plc
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CONTACT:
Press contact: Dr. Erich Weichselgartner,
Zentrum fur Psychologische Information und Dokumentation,
Universitat Trier, D- 54286 Trier, Tel: +49-651-201-2056, Fax:
+49-651-201-2604, Email: wga@zpid.de. Autonomy Editorial
Contacts: Rowan Gardner, Autonomy (UK), +44(0)1223-448000,
rowang@autonomy.com. Edward Bridges, Financial Dynamics (UK),
+44(0)207-831-3113, edward.bridges@fd.com. Sayo Ogundiran, Cohn &
Wolfe (US), +1-415-365-8552, cwna-autonomy@cohnwolfe.com. Bite
Communications (UK), +44(0)20-8834-3518, autonomy@bitepr.com
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