PubFactory provides leading-edge search services backed by an XML datastore. Quick search and Advanced search both provide full support for searching document text using Boolean operators, wildcards and quoted phrases. Advanced search extends search capabilities to a rich extensible set of metadata.

PubFactory provides leading-edge search services backed by an XML datastore. Quick search and Advanced search both provide full support for searching document text using Boolean operators, wildcards and quoted phrases. Advanced search extends search capabilities to a rich extensible set of metadata.

PubFactory offers rich browsing interfaces for metadata and taxonomies associated with core content such as hierarchical facet navigation, timeline browsing, and map viewers. Compelling visual focal points in themselves, these tools also serve as springboards for core content exploration.

The PubFactory content viewer displays a large variety of different types of content in a consistent, comfortable manner, and includes a rich set of tools.Clear navigation locates the user within multiple contexts, including the current content set (such as the contents of a book) and the current search result set. Associated images, tables, sidebars, footnotes and bibliographies are presented in appropriate formats, and may also be chunked as separate entries when appropriate. A rich set of bibliographic data is mapped to outbound links using OpenURL and DOI. Users can share, email, and save content, and can easily capture citations in either MLA or Chicago format. PubFactory also supports the use of external citation management software by providing citation data in standard electronic formats such as Dublin Core and RIS.

Collaboration tools allow users to tag and share content while publishers can create and link podcasts and other newsworthy content. Blogs can be created and monitored to provide a forum for interaction between users of the site and the providers/creators of the content. Integration with favorite social networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook can also be provided.

PubFactory has unparalleled personalization features. A user who registers is given a persistent content locker in which they can save entries, searches, and personal collections they create. Collections can be made public so that other users can see them. Users can also register search alerts in order to receive notification whenever any new matching content is added. The locker also holds content purchased by the user for later retrieval.

PubFactory builds on our extensive custom publishing experience to provide unprecedented custom publishing capabilities by extending the personalization system. Using this system, user content collections can be assembled into PDF and ePub eBook formats and downloaded for offline reading on eBook readers and other devices. This capability is managed by a back-end system that enables Publishers to monitor, control and monetize this activity, yielding a potential new revenue stream.

PubFactory includes a full featured Account Management System (AMS) that publishers use to manage both institutional and individual accounts. The AMS supports the creation of accounts, titles, and offers and provides full support for consortia. A configurable notification system sends personalized activation, expiration, and renewal notices. Free trials and gratis subscriptions are also supported.

At the discretion of the publisher, institutions can self-administer some account information, including IP ranges, OpenURL, institutional branding and basic contact information.

PubFactory provides e-commerce support for sites that offer direct online sales by integrating a shopping cart and credit card payment processor with the product site. The AMS includes a detailed transaction history and integrates with external fulfillment, inventory and invoicing systems as required.

PubFactory gives publishers the flexibility they need by supporting a variety of different revenue models, including renewable time-limited subscriptions, one-time purchase with perpetual access, and pay-per-view. Credit card transactions can be settled using PubFactory's built-in support, or using an external system. Granular content packaging allows fine control over pricing, including the ability to provide free content on a time-limited basis. Using PubFactory, the publisher packages and sells content in the way that best fits their business.

Institutions can be allowed complete control over their registered IP address ranges using a convenient interface that handles wildcards and excluded ranges, or this function can be reserved for the publisher.

Non-core content is updated easily using the web Content Management System (CMS). This may be used to manage marketing content as well as supplementary material that forms part of the authenticated content. The CMS provides a full-featured WYSIWYG editor, control over site navigation and menus, the ability to add new pages, and to organize pages into sections as needed. In addition, news items can be managed to provide new timely content for the homepage of the site.

PubFactory's content loader lets publishers update, revise and publish core content at any time using a sophisticated yet simple job control dashboard. Detailed error reporting and tracking features make it easy to diagnose loading and content errors without delay. PubFactory's XML pipelines incorporate advanced validation rules that perform consistency checks that go beyond basic XML schema validation (which is also performed). All content is initially loaded to a staging environment so that full content QA can be done before content is moved to the production site. The publisher retains complete control over when, where and how to load content and when to make it live on the production site.

PubFactory provides a number of features that support librarians. Librarians can self-manage account information, subscription renewals and even authentication details. They can update update the customer branding, including display account name and logo, that is presented to their users on the product site. Librarians can register an OpenURL resolver with PubFactory and provide users easy access to their own library's catalog within a PubFactory site. PubFactory's SRU/SRW service supports first-class federated search.

PubFactory supports COUNTER 4. The SUSHI standard is also supported. Full traffic analysis reports are provided to the publisher including failed search reports which are especially important in detailing where and why users are failing to find content within the product.