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Byline: Kim Thomas

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Major information providers such as Thomson and ProQuest, which offer academics and librarians access to millions of scholarly articles and research databases, now do much more than supply the written words.

Thanks to technology such as XML and web services, they can effectively glue different products together. They also provide "workflow" tools that integrate that information into an academic's working life. Such tools help researchers and, increasingly students, to find appropriate information quickly and then apply it elsewhere.

Take Thomson's Web of Science product, whose content is from many ...

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