Brill Publishers Selects Scope's ConSCIse Platform for Book Chapter Abstracts

Online, April 9, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, is pleased to announce Brill, the international publishing house head-quartered in Leiden, The Netherlands, has selected Scope to support its goal of increasing the discoverability of books chapters on its Brill Online Books and Journals platform.

Brill publishes over 700 books and 200 journals a year. Its publications focus on Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and Biology. Brill intends to create chapter-level keyword and abstract metadata for its nearly 4,000 book backlist and for new books it publishes. Scope will employ its proprietary content abstraction and metadata enrichment platform ConSCIse™ to create this metadata. ConSCIse uses a unique blend of proprietary automation and subject matter expert curation to ensure high-quality descriptive metadata is created. This unique model has enabled Scope to deliver more than five million abstracts of patents, book chapters, technical articles, standards and other documents for a number of clients.

Sam Bruinsma, VP Business Development, Brill commented, "We need high-quality abstracts and keywords for each book at the chapter level to meet our business objective of enhancing the discoverability of our book chapters and help end-users with better navigation. We chose Scope based on its previous experience in creating book chapter metadata, pilot deliverables and overall consultative approach."

Commenting on this partnership, Tram Venkatraman, President of Scope, said, "We are really happy to be associated with a publisher with the international reputation of Brill and to support its objective of improved discoverability of books at the chapter level. Scope will ensure the necessary process velocity, productivity and scalability thanks to our technology platforms and process efficiency-oriented approaches."

M. A. Eswaran, Scope's Chief Operating Officer, commented, "Scope is seeing a trend among publishers and other information providers towards offering content in more granular 'bits. Scope has developed its ConSCIse platform to create descriptive metadata to support enhanced discoverability of book chapters and other more granular content types. We look forward to working with Brill in this assignment."

About Brill Publishers

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in 20 main subject areas, including Middle East and Islamic Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History, Biblical and Religious Studies, Language & Linguistics, Biology, and International Law, among others. With offices in Leiden and Boston, Brill today publishes 200 journals and around 700 new books and reference works each year, available in both print and electronic form. Brill also markets a large number of primary source research collections and databases. The company's key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information please visit www.brill.com.

About Scope e-Knowledge Center

Scope, a Quatrro Global Services company, is an award-winning provider of outsourced, cost-effective Content Enhancement Services, Data Management Services, Business Research Services and Patent Analytics for various clients across the globe. Scope, a niche knowledge services provider, has employees from various educational backgrounds and experience delivering knowledge solutions across multiple industry verticals and domains. Scope fulfils customer needs by leveraging its experience and capabilities using in-house developed proprietary technology solutions and platforms for service delivery as well as its internal needs. Scope is also the publisher of daily newsletter Knowledgespeak, a comprehensive news service focusing on the STM information industry.

For more information, please contact:

Richard Kobel
Vice President,
Business Development,
USA
Scope e-Knowledge Center
+1 516 462 3555
[email protected]
www.scopeknowledge.com

John Camarano
Associate Vice President,
Business Development,
USA
Scope e-Knowledge Center
+1 301 538 6034
[email protected]
www.scopeknowledge.com

Deborah Harman
Associate Vice President,
Business Development,
UK & Europe
+44 770 203 6704
Scope e-Knowledge Center
[email protected]
www.scopeknowledge.com

M.A. Eswaran
Chief Operating Officer,
Scope e-Knowledge Center,
India
+91 44 2431 4201 Ext 301
[email protected]
www.scopeknowledge.com