In his first review for February 2007, Dr. Peter Jacso from the University of Hawaii looks at CSA Illustrata.

He writes:

CSA of the Cambridge Information Group rung in the new year with the release of CSA Illustrata, an innovative, leading edge database of more than 165,000 traditional indexing/abstracting records plus close to one million richly indexed illustrations extracted from scientific journal articles published in the past 10 years. CSA established itself in the early 1970s as an indexing/abstracting service, and now is bent on revitalizing and revolutionizing the indexing/abstracting database genre. One may argue exactly how many words a picture (chart, table, graph, map, photo, etc.) is worth, but my in-depth testing of the pre-release version of CSA Illustrata showed that an image can be worth much more than a thousand words as they can significantly improve the precision/pertinence of the scholarly information retrieval process.

Source: Gale.com

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