Online Knowledge Centers
Your Online Scholarly Publishing Platform
Your organization greatest asset is its repository of professionally vetted and reviewed content. From journals to scholarly publications, your educational content is the life blood of your association, and it's the reason your association exists. Your relevancy as an organization often depends on creating, reviewing and distributing these materials.
But how do you leverage the value of your educational publications?
The key is to make your educational publications as usable and discoverable as possible.
Our Online Knowledge Centers, or eLibraries, provide digital publishing platforms to archive, manage and distribute your scholarly content. Online Knowledge Centers store your journals and publications in a more searchable, findable, manageable, brand-able and sellable way. A way that is easy for both members and non-members to use. And if you chose to expose your content to search engines, a Knowledge Center can be a valuable tool to attract and recruit new members.
Your Online Knowledge Center will help you organize, manage and share scholarly content such as:
- Technical Papers
- Standards Manuals
- Specification Guides
- White Papers
- Journals
It’s quite the big idea, right?
What It Is
Digital Publishing Platform for Scholarly Content
Omnipress Knowledge Centers provide branded online publishing platforms for your association’s scholarly content. This eLibrary solution offers a customized interface, full text and advanced metadata search, social bookmarking, a mobile-friendly design, content access control, enhanced discoverability and search engine optimization.
Our hosted solution works for any volume of content, allowing you to host an entire library of association content or a simple reference guide.
Knowledge Center Features
Learn From Others
Transforming from Print to a Global Access Model
The Transportation Research Board (TRB)
TRB publishes a world-renown resource for transportation professionals called the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM). The revision cycle of the series of manuals is sometimes as long as ten years, and print quantities are over ten thousand.
Still, many in of TRB’s constituents wanted access to finite portions for this content that are spread over three printed volumes and one online volume with traffic modeling and other interactive features.
Enter the HCM Online Knowledge Center solution provided by Omnipress that allows users to purchase online access to full volumes or chapters of the individual volumes in a digital library. It also helps get their content out to more users. Advanced SEO capabilities make each page of the manuals findable by the web down to the individual page raising the visibility of TRB content on the web.
The HCM Online Knowledge Center is bundling content for university professors to use for teaching. Students will simply access the HCM online site and buy access to “UW – Madison Traffic Engineering 201” or other custom collections of content from the manuals. TRB is also eyeing the possibility of making more frequent updates to the HCM and offering subscriptions to the “latest HCM content” giving TRB another valuable benefit
to offer users.
Big Ideas
Knowledge Center Becomes a Content Marketing Hub
Looking for ways to share content with members while attracting the attention of non-members?
Your Online Knowledge Center is it.
Once you’ve created this eLibrary of your scholarly publications, you’ll find your Knowledge Center has quickly transformed into a living, breathing marketing hub for your association.
Take advantage of this marketing machine through your communication tools: eNewsletters, blogs and emails. Your Knowledge Center will do the rest of the work for you.
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