The role of librarians as guides in the changing landscape of knowledge becomes even more important with the ongoing advances in technology and proliferation of knowledge resources. One benefit of technology for information professionals and those they serve is the availability and aggregation of previously hard-to-find resources such as event knowledge – conference abstracts, posters, and oral presentations.

Only 45% of abstracts accepted for presentation at biomedical meetings are published, ¹ while the remaining 55% of abstracts meet an unknown and unseen fate.

“The result is a vast body of squandered knowledge that represents a waste of resources and a drag on scientific progress. This information – call it dark data – must be set free.” ²

Given the current hurdles to discovering and accessing event knowledge, as well as the changing demographics of medical education and educational delivery, Conference Archives is proud to enable online access to text-based and rich-media event knowledge to institutions around the world through Ekatius™.

Information professionals are the guides in the changing landscape of knowledge, let Ekatius™ be your map.

Benefits of Ekatius™ for Information Professionals

• Powerful resource of hard-to-find text and rich media event knowledge.
• Event knowledge from many disciplines aggregated and accessible from one platform.
• Convenient IP range access for institutions.
• Advanced search functionalities allow users to search across multiple events and disciplines.
• All slides and transcription, where applicable, can be downloaded in PDF format.
• Usage reports.