May 1998 Northern Light Offering Enterprise Account Service Northern Light, LLC, has announced that it has introduced its Enterprise Account Service, which provides a corporate alternative to traditional information retrieval services and first-generation Web search engines. The new service enables organizations to create online accounts so that researchers and other information professionals can find relevant, organized information on the Web and in Northern Light's Special Collection of more than 3,400 sources, including business periodicals, trade journals, health publications, academic journals, and newswire databases. According to the company, central to the Enterprise Account Service is a Web-based billing system that enables organizations to activate Northern Light accounts for an unlimited number of users, departments, and projects within an enterprise. As a result, each can be reported separately, which simplifies internal accounting. Organizations also can generate their own monthly reports to track spending and can effectively control expenses by setting usage limits.
Individual accounts are also available.
The new Enterprise Account Service opens the door for organizations of any size to use Northern Light's research engine for serious information research, according to the announcement. Enterprises can search the Web, and can also tap into Northern Light's Special Collection for both business research and personal needs from such sources as American Banker, Home Furnishing News, Information Today, The Economist, CFO Alert, American Family Physician, The Lancet, and Women's Wear Daily. Relevant search results are automatically organized by subject, source, and type, and categorized into Custom Search Folders. Reviewing results in these organized folders reduces the time it takes to find quality information, says the company. The results that we are getting by searching with Northern Light are right on target, and the custom Search folders make finding what we need easy.