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New Data Analysis and Visualisation Tool for Mining Reference Literature

Adept Scientific are pleased to announce the immediate availability of RefViz™ for Mac® OS X. RefViz was developed in collaboration with OmniViz to create the first affordable visualisation tool for the researcher’s desktop. RefViz provides users with a powerful way to explore reference literature visually to identify major themes and topics. References can be moved easily between RefViz and popular ISI ResearchSoft desktop bibliographic software, enabling users to publish results faster.

“We are pleased to deliver the text analysis and visualisation capabilities of RefViz to the Macintosh® platform,” said David Kochalko, president of Thomson ISI ResearchSoft. “Now, using the power of RefViz combined with bibliographic software, Macintosh users can quickly evaluate vast amounts of references, accelerating the research process. RefViz is an excellent example of the complementary tools we are developing and licensing to improve the research and publishing experience of our customers.”

“Mac OS X has rapidly become the platform of choice for research scientists because it runs both high end UNIX research algorithms as well as productivity and publication tools like the new RefViz,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “With RefViz, scientists will be able to speed up their research through more comprehensive gathering and organising of relevant publication data.”

Explore reference literature visually
Today’s academics, students and researchers are faced with an overwhelming amount of information to organise, track and understand with too little time to digest it. RefViz provides users with an intuitive framework for exploring reference collections based on content. RefViz effectively skim-reads each set of references and presents an unbiased review of all relevant terms found in the title and abstract/notes fields. It essentially groups the literature the same way you would stack papers. With an at-a-glance overview, users can orientate themselves with the literature to reveal trends and associations in references.

“RefViz is a wonderful program that allows one to easily separate the ‘wheat’ from the ‘chaff.’”—David J. Smith, Ph.D.

Whether users want to search personal EndNote, Reference Manager or ProCite databases; or capture suitable references from online sources such as ISI Web of Science, OCLC, or PubMed, RefViz provides a suite of tools and an additional level of analysis that can help home in on relevant information in the shortest time possible. At the same time, RefViz broadens understanding of a particular field by visually demonstrating how certain topic areas are interrelated. It can even pick up on references that standard searches might normally miss.

“RefViz actually pointed out references I had missed despite extensive research.”—John Ward, student

View references in Galaxy and Matrix landscapes
The Galaxy view organises 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 highlights related terms by presenting a review of which subjects tend to be discussed together in the literature (terms vs. terms), or an overview of the major concepts discussed across groups (terms vs. groups). This helps users understand the overlap and associations between concepts. With RefViz’s additional tools, users can apply their expertise to fine tune their analyses.

Publish results faster
Used together with EndNote, Reference Manager and ProCite, RefViz probes deeper into existing reference collections and lets users find the most relevant citations for their papers. Researchers, writers and students depend on such tools 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.

RefViz is designed for Mac OS X and Microsoft® Windows® NT/ME/2000/XP.  For further product information, go to http://www.refviz.co.uk. RefViz is supplied and supported in the UK and Ireland by Adept Scientific plc, Amor Way, Letchworth, Herts. SG6 1ZA; telephone (01462) 480055, fax (01462) 480213, email:biblio@adeptscience.co.uk; or see Adept’s World Wide Website http://www.adeptscience.co.uk.

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