Digital Publishing Platform Features

It's no secret that associations today are fighting to stay relevant to their members. Members want more benefits for their money, and you’re competing with social media groups and vendors who are sharing content for free.

So how can you become a contender? It's simple: you need to make your members’ lives easier. You need to share more benefits in easy-to-use formats, and show you appreciate their loyalty by offerings services they value. And your Digital Publishing Platform can help.

Providing members and visitors with easy access to your online archive of rich scholarly resources demonstrates to them that not only are you the leading source of educational information for their industry, but their membership is the key to accessing that educational content.

What Do You Want Your Digital Publishing Platform To Do?

Members Will See Your Association’s Scholarly Content

• Page-Level Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  Each page of every document has its own website URL. This means your Digital Publishing Platform has that many more indexed web pages major search engines like Google and Bing can search. This makes your eLibrary much more findable to members. Exposing your content to the world makes your organization more relevant and acts an engine for growing your membership base.

• Teaser Content
  If you decide to restrict your scholarly content, your Digital Publishing Platform can display teaser content, or snippets of content to entice your visitors to register for your next conference or become members.

• Full-Text and Metadata Search-ability
  It's not enough to simply put your scholarly publications online. You need to help your users find what they're looking for – fast! All the content in your Digital Publishing Platform is wrapped within a powerful search tool that utilizes metadata and page level full text search. This tool not only brings users to the right document, it brings them to the right page within the document.

  Scholarly content can quickly be filtered in your Knowledge Center by:

  • Title
  • File type
  • Publication Date
  • Author
  • Track
  • Subject
  • And More!

More Than Your Ordinary Content Website

• Member Engagement Features
  Put an end to boring websites that don't allow members to interact with content.

Our Digital Publishing Platform is specifically designed to engage members by:

• Capturing comments and ratings
• Allowing for integration with online photo-galleries
• Enabling social sharing and bookmarking
• Supporting access via smartphones and tablets.

Digital Publishing Platforms Put You in the Driver's Seat

• Subscription Access and eCommerce
  Do you want to provide free access to scholarly publications for members while generating non-dues revenue from non-members? Our Digital Publishing Platform integrates subscription management services to give you full control of content access. You can place site access within the member’s only section of your website, or you can assign access via individual usernames and passwords.

• Automatically Updated Indices
  When you add new or revised documents to your Digital Publishing Platform, the system dynamically updates each index. Manual updates to your indices or tables of content are no longer necessary.

• Easy Content Management
  Our Digital Publishing Platform provides a client portal for you to upload content. This means you and your staff can take control of your content. New journals or updated technical papers can be added at any time by simply uploading files and filling out the metadata fields. In addition you may choose to build an ongoing archive site in which additional years’ content can be added  for a living, searchable repository of all your scholarly content.

• Google Analytics
  All Digital Publishing Platforms come with a Google Analytics account so staff can quickly and easily track site visits, unique users, device access, daily activity, content use and other information.

Digital Publishing Platforms Work Well with Other Systems

• Single-Sign On (SSO) Integration
  Who wants to remember another username and password? The Digital Publishing Platform can streamline access with Single-Sign-On (SSO) that integrates with many association management systems, payment gateways and registration systems.
• True Mobile Access on iPads, Tablets and Smartphones
  When your super-cool Digital Publishing Platforms meet their super-cool handheld gadgets, magic happens. Your eLibraries are created knowing more and more people are using iPads, tablets and smartphones to access the web. Digital Publishing Platforms are created in a “true mobile-friendly design,” so you don’t need to use the tip of a pen to hit the correct link.