Publishing & Media

As a leading online development firm, iFactory has served the needs of the publishing sector with a broad array of services for the past decade. The breadth and depth of our experience gives us the ability to provide our clients with the services needed to succeed in today's highly competitive world of electronic publishing. Our new Publishing Division, PubFactory, capitalizes on this experience by allowing us to focus on delivering standard solution sets as well as custom product suites that are keenly relevant to online publishing today.

iFactory's award winning work includes such products as OUP's Dictionary of National Biography, Rosen Publishing's Teen Health and Wellness database, SAGE Publications' Sage Reference Online platform and many others.

Here are just a few of the solutions we have built for our publishing clients.

Oxford Biblical Studies Online

  • An exciting, authoritative, dynamic online resource for students, scholars, community groups and librarians. It includes six essential OUP Bibles, concordances, the Oxford Bible Commentary, over 5,000 A-Z entries and chapters from acclaimed Oxford references, written by leading scholars and specialists. In addition, hundreds of images and maps provide visual perspectives on the biblical world.
  • Browse Biblical Studies at: www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com

Columbia University Press Granger's World of Poetry

  • The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry contains 250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 citations, numbers that will continually expand with each update. The poems in full text are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German and Italian. A significant feature is the largest and most comprehensive subject browse. Granger's 6,000 subject headings are organized in a hierarchical structure of related themes and categories.
  • Browse Granger's at: www.columbiagrangers.org

Oxford University Press Islamic Studies

  • An authoritative, dynamic online resource for students, scholars, government officials, community groups and librarians. Encompassing over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information on Islam. Users can refine the rich array of content to search and browse by era, topic and geographic region, filter to view a specific type of content and make use of a variety of search forms to set criteria for locating biographical entries, bibliographic references, primary sources, terms in the Qur'an and Concordance and much more.
  • Browse Islamic Studies at: www.oxfordislamicstudies.com

Who's Who

  • Who's Who: The essential directory of the noteworthy and influential in all walks of life in the UK and worldwide, published annually since 1849. Plus, Who Was Who: Over 100,000 entries from the archives of Who's Who dating back to 1898: The definitive roll-call of the last 150 years of British history.
  • Browse Who's Who at: www.ukwhoswho.com

Columbia Gazetteer

  • Columbia Gazetteer provides a database of names, descriptions and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world. The Gazetteer joins Columbia Granger's World of Poetry as part of the e-reference platform that iFactory has created for Columbia University Press.
  • Browse Gazetteer at: www.columbiagazetteer.org

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

  • The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online features essential language resources never before available online - fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries (French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese) and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.
  • Browse the dictionary at: www.oxfordlanguagedictionaries.com

Rosen Teen Health and Wellness

  • iFactory designed, programmed and deployed a publishing platform that allowed Rosen's non-technical editorial staff to deliver credible, up-to-date, problem-solving information from the Rosen library to teenage students. By building the editorial management system first, Rosen's editorial staff could begin authoring and editing content while the rest of the site was designed and built. TeenHealthandWellness.com (the first online database Rosen ever published) launched in January 2007 to overwhelming acclaim from librarians and teachers, and Rosen plans to use it as a model for future websites.
  • Read testimonials about this valuable resource at: www.teenhealthandwellness.com

Behind the scenes: Content, Editorial and Account Management Systems

Rosen can control access to their content through iFactory's Account Management System which allows management of personal and institutional subscriptions and can authenticate users by IP, username and password and referring URL. By integrating the Account Management System with our Custom Content Management System, Rosen Publishing is able to easily offer customized versions of the Teen Health and Wellness site to their subscribers, all served from the same source material. In addition, Rosen's non-technical staff can easily create new polls and quizzes to keep the homepage fresh and compelling.

"This is what I call a Reference Experience",

Sue Polanka reviews Rosen's Teen Health and Wellness database. Read the review

SAGE Reference Online

  • iFactory built a new online publishing platform to allow SAGE's editorial staff to upload their encyclopedia's content into the system, add metadata to the articles, and control how the encyclopedias are released to the live site. Users can search through 80 different encyclopedias or browse each one through their Reader's Guide. A customizable CSS-based design allows each online encyclopedia to reflect the colors and design of the print versions that users are familiar with. SAGE plans to use their new web-based system for all of their encyclopedias moving forward.
  • Discover more about SAGE eReference at: www.sage-ereference.com

Oxford African American Studies Center

  • The AASC allows Oxford University Press to combine the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated custom-built technology. iFactory developed an information architecture for the AASC, designed its color scheme and layout, and built an online publishing platform that displays a wide variety of content, including articles, images, tables, graphs, maps and timelines.
  • Visit the online authority on the African American experience at: www.oxfordaasc.com

Behind the scenes: Oxford Publishing Platform

In order for Oxford University Press to manage the massive amount of content on their websites, iFactory built a completely new Oxford Publication Platform which provides an infrastructure for online reference sites. The "OPP" includes an XML-based content repository, search query and search form tools, and a modular API from which these sites can be built. This revolutionary approach to publishing ensures that every Oxford website maintains OUP's reputation for quality and accuracy while improving the efficiency of OUP's editorial and publishing process. The platform will greatly reduce the cost and time of creating new websites, and OUP plans to use this platform to develop all of their new sites in 2007.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  • The arrival of the online Dictionary of National Biography allows Oxford University Press to extend the 60 volume print version of the DNB with up-to-date content, dynamic citation information, revision history for every article, free biographies, interactive holiday features, daily RSS feeds and podcasts. Users can search or browse through all 63 million words in DNB thanks to a powerful search framework built by iFactory. Users can quickly and easily refine their search by dates, place or genre, or browse over 55,000 biographies by alphabetical listing, date or theme.
  • Explore the Dictionary of National Biography at: www.oxforddnb.com

Behind the scenes: Publication Information Management and Account Management Systems

Leveraging Oxford's internal content management tools that manage the editorial process, iFactory deployed a publication management system that allows OUP's non-technical staff to manage the publication process between the content management system and the live site. iFactory also built and maintains an Account Management System that is used to handle and maintain all online subscriptions outside the UK for all of OUP's online reference works, and is integrated with OUP's SAP financial system and their internal UK subscription system.

RR Donnelley PubSelectSM

  • iFactory worked with RR Donnelley to develop PubSelectSM, the next generation custom publishing application. Users can build their book by selecting and rearranging individual chapter content from publishers' textbooks, customize the cover and title page and even upload their own content. Once the book is finalized, a PDF of the final book is sent to RR Donnelley and printed. iFactory also built an administrative system so that publishers can control content, access and pricing of their content.
  • For more information on PubSelectSM, visit: www.pubselect.com

O'Reilly SafariU

  • iFactory worked jointly with O'Reilly to develop the new SafariU site. iFactory developed the front end code allowing users to search, manage and upload content for Custom Books/Print on Demand. The AJAX-based drag-and-drop interface improves usability by allowing users to sort their custom book chapters in a natural fluid manner. The front end seamlessly communicates user requests to the underlying MarkLogic platform implemented by O'Reilly.

iFactory builds systems that help publishers expand reach, improve delivery and generate revenue via the web. Let us help you, too.

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