The enhanced Search feature now lets users search across all categories, within specific groupings, by title, or by keywords. Topics include E-Business, Personal Finance, Biotechnology, etc., and offer headlines and article excerpts on key industry issues. The service provides Find, Buy and Read features for over 2,000 publications, including newsletters, market research studies, analyst reports, conference and seminar transcripts, and other specialty publications. Brief abstracts describe the publications, with some additional information available about the publishers. When users move to specific subject categories, they may see a series of headlines taken from participating newsletters with free extracts available.
Users can subscribe to newsletters directly online.
The company also offers a 30-day free trial and a guarantee that subscribers will get the lowest available price. The system alerts users to new content going into their Reading Rooms and allows them to quickly modify user profiles. As one might expect, Web users still have a tremendous fondness for free information. The site usually extracts one article from each issue for inclusion in a customizable package syndicated to some 400 Web sites with links to subscription pages in exchange for free content. Partner sites may receive up to 20 percent of revenue generated by a sales lead.