ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 23, 2007 - ProQuest and the American Meteorological Society (AMS) are collaborating to incorporate content from AMS-published journals into CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences. As a result, tables, figures, and other illustrations from AMS journals will be searchable in and linked to from CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences. The first database of the CSA Illustrata™ family, Natural Sciences dramatically enhances the visibility of more than one million such objects from articles in notable scholarly journals.

"Meteorology is one of the most image-intensive fields of study, with researchers relying heavily on maps, isobars, climate charts, satellite photos, and much more visual data," said Matt Dunie, president of ProQuest.  "The CSA Illustrata service provides a useful starting place for exciting new research in this area."
Journals published by AMS with image content now searchable through CSA Illustrata include:

- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Earth Interactions
- Journal of Applied Meteorology
- Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
- Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
- Journal of Climate
- Journal of Hydrometeorology
- Journal of Physical Oceanography
- Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
- Meteorological Monographs
- Monthly Weather Review
- Weather and Forecasting

CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences is the first digital resource to transform the discovery process through the Deep Indexing of charts, tables, graphs, and figures.  Deep Indexing, the granular indexing and categorizing of data that is presented in tables, figures, maps, photos and charts, allows researchers to significantly enhance the precision, efficiency and recall in their search process. 

Using CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences, researchers save precious time by quickly pinpointing the most relevant journal articles with their pertinent graphical objects.  CSA Illustrata significantly improves upon the results of traditional article-level and full text level searching by offering subscription-sensitive linking capabilities from the retrieved illustration to the full-text of the article in which it appears.

Additional information about CSA Illustrata as well as the concept and research behind Deep Indexing is available at http://info.csa.com/csaillustrata. 

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