The total solution for efficiently managing and monitoring scientific literature

How is QUOSA Used

Article Archive & Product Literature Database

You need a consolidated literature archive capturing all of the full-text articles, conference abstracts, patents and related documents relevant to your products or project, perhaps complete with tagging specific to your company. QUOSA provides:

  • Automated alerts and import of the full-text literature, integrated with your preferred search platforms
  • A robust, copyright-compliant archive structure with fully configurable meta-data and tagging architecture
  • Easy- to-use access options, including browser-based search, email and RSS Alerts, dynamic links, and automatically generated reporting templates

Document Delivery Management

To eliminate duplicate article ordering, you need a consolidated archive capturing all of the full-text articles purchased through document delivery. QUOSA provides:

  • Automated import of your current article collections
  • Full integration with your document delivery machinery
  • Automatic article matching to prevent duplicate orders
  • Automated inclusion of newly-ordered articles into the central archive

Alerts / Current Awareness

Alerts on the scientific literature are a critical need for many constituents within your organization. QUOSA products:

  • Streamline the process of providing and managing alerts and current awareness for your customers
  • Provide more targeted, more effective alerts in formats that are easier-to-use and meet your workflow needs

Workgroup Literature Sharing

Improve the efficiency of your project workgroup with QUOSA's easy-to-use yet scalable article sharing solution

  • Consolidate all relevant full-text articles in one place, with immediate access by all authorized users to your complete collection of scientific literature, conference abstracts, patents, and internally-generated documents
  • Feed in new results through automatic alerts
  • Tag with fully configurable meta-data templates, field names, field numbers and field-types, including controlled vocabulary functionality

Search Retrieval & Distribution

As an information professional, your workflow to provide results from mediated searches and alerts can involve tedious and time-consuming 'copying and pasting' to create the search-result summaries your clients require. QUOSA allows you to:

  • Work within the native interface of your preferred search platform to retrieve the full-text articles for the results sets
  • Manage alerts
  • Automate the creation of summary reports in flexible HTML format to email to your clients, complete with direct one-click full-text links

Personal Literature Management

Managing hundreds or even thousands of PDF articles is a daunting task, yet there are times when immediate access to the relevant literature is a mission-critical need, whether for reference, analysis, or the preparation of scientific papers and presentations. QUOSA allows you to:

  • Automate, simplify, and streamline the retrieval of relevant full-text articles
  • Consolidate and organize your article PDFs with an organization scheme that is convenient for you
  • Analyze articles with full-text search and highlighting capabilities

Advanced Text Analytics

The quality of input drives the quality of insight from text analytics. QUOSA boosts the input quality with the only product that allows you to:

  • Perform queries in common literature databases such as PubMed and then facilitate retrieval of multiple full-text articles from your subscription base
  • Assemble an archive of thousands of full-text articles using an automated process

Publishers / Aggregators: Article Downloading

As Publishers and Aggregators, streamline your customers' workflows to:

  • Help your customers access your full-text articles, the core of your business as a Publisher
  • Help your customers find the relevant information via your search platform, the core of your business as an Aggregator