01/2012: We're headed to ALA!
iFactory is ALA-bound! If you'll be in Dallas, stop by booth #1760 and visit with us. We have exciting news to share, sites to show, and of course, we want to hear what's new with you. Hope to see you in Dallas.
01/2012: iFactory and De Gruyter Launch the new De Gruyter Online!
With access to 52,000 titles, approximately 155,000 book chapters and more than 220,000 journal articles, the new De Gruyter Online [http://www.degruyter.com] has launched!
Built on iFactory's publishing platform, PubFactory, the new De Gruyter Online is the publisher's integrated online platform. PubFactory provides a single unified platform for all of De Gruyter's content, including: journals, eBooks, reference databases, directories, and print books.
11/2011: We're exhibitors at Online Information 2011
Stop by to see us in booth X217 in the XML Pavillion!
11/2011: Tom Beyer and Marc Segers at Charleston Conference
10/2011: iFactory announces the launch of the University Press Scholarship Online!
A collaboration between Oxford University Press and iFactory, the new University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) delivers the best scholarly publishing from leading university presses around the world, making disparately-published works easily accessible, highly-discoverable, and fully cross-searchable via a single, state-of-the-art online platform.
"We knew that re-launching our flagship Oxford Scholarship Online product while simultaneously expanding it to allow us to deliver content through our University Press Scholarship Online offering would be a tall order for any developer. iFactory delivered these mission-critical products on time and on budget," said Scott Beebe, Online Publishing Manager for Oxford University Press.
10/2011: Team PubFactory is on the floor at Frankfurt Book Fair!
We're out and about at FBF2011 sharing the latest PubFactory news: the launch of the latest module, SiteGen, recently deployed for the new University Press Scholarship Online.
9/2011: Great news! The Berg Fashion Library takes home an ALPSP award!
The Berg Fashion Library, an iFactory project, was awarded an Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Highly Commended Certificate for Publishing Innovation 2011! Congratulations to all of our friends at Berg!
08/2011: iFactory webcast Wed, Aug 3rd @ 1pm! HTML5: New Possibilities for Publishing
06/2011: Are you headed to the Society for Scholarly Publishing's Annual Meeting, June 1st-3rd?
We look forward to welcoming everyone to Boston. Our own Marc Segers will serve as a panel facilitator on June 3rd from 10:45-12:15.
04/2011: iFactory is a silver sponsor at this year’s MarkLogic User Conference April 26-29!
04/2011: London Book Fair is April 11-13.
We’ll be there!
03/2011: Earthscan's MEEP wins European Information Association Award 2011!
Congratulations to our friends at Earthscan! iFactory project, the Manual of European Environmental Policy, was the recipient of the European Information Association's 2011 Award for European Information Sources. Read the full release
03/2011: We’re headed to Philadelphia March 30-April 2 for ACRL 2011. Let us know if you’re attending!
02/2011: We’ll be at the O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference, February 14-16. Hope to see you there!
01/2011: Congratulations to our friends at Berg Publishers!
iFactory project, the Berg Fashion Library, is the winner of a prestigious 2011 Dartmouth Medal! more
01/2011: iFactory Publishing Team Will Be in Attendance at the ALA Midwinter Meeting January 7-11 in San Diego.
Catch our Publishing Account Manager Marc Segers when he guest speaks at the CQ Press Independent Reference Publishers Group meeting Friday, January 7th from 2-4pm.
01/2011: Catch our Publishing Account Manager Marc Segers when he guest speaks at the CQ Press Independent Reference Publishers Group meeting Friday, January 7th from 2-4pm.
12/2010: iFactory Announces the Launch of the New Oxford English Dictionary Online!
600,000 words...3 million quotations...more than 1,000 years of the English language...the new Oxford English Dictionary Online has launched! [www.oed.com] iFactory, an award-winning digital design and development firm, together with Oxford University Press, is thrilled to announce the revamp of the innovative online iteration of the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the English language. James Gleick noted in the New York Review of Books, "The OED...has evolved into an enterprise of cyberspace, rather than a mere book...the renovation has turned a cottage into a palace." more
12/2010: Welcome Back to the Factory, Harlan!
We are positively thrilled that Harlan McCanne has returned to our team as Solutions Architect. As a former iFactorian (he served as Director of Engineering from 1996-1997) Harlan brings a high level of business analysis, technical expertise and customer focus to client engagements. During his time away from iFactory, Harlan was co-owner of Illumina Interactive, an internet services company focusing on e-Learning and healthcare. Most recently, he managed the development team at Spire, a marketing services and printing company that provided customized Print-On-Demand solutions for retirement service providers, direct marketeers and international retailers. In this role, he engaged clients to refine their business needs into targeted technical solutions that increased market share and reduced cost.
In his new role as Solutions Architect, Harlan identifies best-value solutions for leveraging iFactory products and skills as they apply to specific client challenges, and improves overall customer experience. We are so happy to have Harlan back on board, and proud to consistently evolve the iFactory team and PubFactory platform by providing our clients with such a high level of experience and talent.
12/2010: iFactory Announces the Launch of the IMF eLibrary
iFactory, together with the International Monetary Fund, announces the launch of the new IMF eLibrary. PubFactory, iFactory's e-publishing platform, will serve as a complete end-to-end solution, providing a unique combination of both functionality and design. "The IMF generates a wealth of analysis and research on the global economy. The PubFactory platform will make our recent and archived content much more accessible to our audiences," said Sandy Donaldson, Publisher at the IMF. more
11/2010: iFactory and De Gruyter Team Up!
We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with De Gruyter, one of the world's leading publishers of academic literature. De Gruyter has chosen iFactory, and its revolutionary e-publishing platform, PubFactory. iFactory's expertise is the development of publishing platforms of all types and scales, tailored to support publishers as their businesses transform in the evolving e-publishing age. "In the rapidly changing environment of scientific publishing, it is important to find new solutions ensuring convenient access to our content. We are looking forward to this collaboration with iFactory, considering it is the best partner for our requirements," said Sven Fund, CEO of De Gruyter. more
10/2010: Tom Beyer, Director of Publishing, and Marc Segers, Publishing Account Manager, will each be speaking at the annual Charleston Conference, November 3-6th. Hope to see you there!
10/2010: iFactory is exhibiting at the 2010 Online Conference in London.
Let us knowif you'll be there – we'd love to see you!
10/2010: SAGE and iFactory Launch Open Beta of SAGE Research Methods Online
SRMO (srmo.sagepub.com) provides advanced search and discovery tools to support researchers and students as they explore relevant content across the social and behavioral sciences, covering quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods.
"SRMO combines world-leading content from a broad range of sources – books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, journals, videos – with a truly unique search and discovery solution which we think is going to offer everyone from new students to advanced researchers a really useful service," said Martha Sedgwick, Senior Manager, Online Products, SAGE. "We've had an incredibly positive response from both librarians and faculty since we opened the Beta version of SRMO, and their feedback during this period will enable us to enhance the platform even further." more
09/2010: iFactory designs and develops the Berg Fashion Library
From dance costumes in French Polynesia to runway couture in New York, the Berg Fashion Library spans the globe and the centuries to uncover the vastness of world dress. Distributed by Oxford University Press, the Berg Fashion Library (www.bergfashionlibrary.com) is a collaboration between Berg Publishers and iFactory, an award-winning web design and development firm based in Boston.
"We are very excited by what iFactory has achieved with the Berg Fashion Library. They have not only successfully implemented our vision, but they have worked with us as true partners to make it so much more than we imagined," said Kathryn Earle, Managing Director, Berg Publishers. more
09/2010: iFactory and Earthscan launch the Manual of European Environmental Policy!
Earthscan selected PubFactory as its official online publishing platform for the development of EarthLibrary and working with iFactory on the Manual has been an important step towards the final product. The online Manual is the first microsite of EarthLibrary, an online platform that will eventually include all of Earthscan's books and journals as well as content published by our partner organizations.
08/2010: iFactory and OUP once again team up and launch the 41st edition of the SIPRI Yearbook – built on iFactory's epublishing platform, PubFactory
08/2010: Great to see so many familiar faces at Frankfurt Book Fair, October 5-8, 2010.
Our days were filled with PubFactory demos, networking and knowledge-sharing. Great trip!
08/2010: Oxford University Press Chooses PubFactory to Develop Oxford English Dictionary
"The OED has been a pioneering digital project," said Robert Faber, Editorial Director, Scholarly and General Reference at OUP. "Building a new version is a great opportunity to present the information locked in the OED database in what we believe is a much more accessible, dynamic, and productive way, while maintaining its reliability and scholarly authority. iFactory has been great to work with on such a core project – they bring real creativity in design, understanding of user behaviour, and engineering savvy, but also understand the importance and value of the OED to its many readers, and to OUP." more
07/2010: iFactory's work with Bloomsbury Academic mentioned in the NYTimes!
