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Case Study: PsychiatryOnline
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (APPI)
http://www.psychiatryonline.com

Background

American Psychiatry Publishing, Inc. (APPI) is the world's leading publisher of books, journals, and multimedia content on psychiatry, mental health, and behavioral science. It offers authoritative, up-to-date, and affordable information geared toward psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, medical students, and the general public.

Project

APPI envisioned an online product anchored by its popular Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world. With DSM would serving as the information cornerstone, APPI also wanted to integrate its many other valuable assets into the website to provide increased value for its users.

Solution

Silverchair, using its experience in semantic tagging and taxonomy, semantically linked DSM with the many other valuable resources in APPI's publishing arsenal, including:

• The DSM-IV-TR Casebook
• Journals, including APPI's flagship The American Journal of Psychiatry, and Psychiatric Services
• Textbooks, including The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
• Self-assessment tools for study, board certification and recertification review resources, and lifelong learning materials
• Clinical and research news from Psychiatric News

Like most content when semantically linked, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts—a fact that is apparent when doing a search on the PsychiatryOnline.com website. A search term not only reveals all of the information within the DSM, but also the latest journal articles, in-depth book chapters, and the latest practice guidelines from the APPI library. Unlike other searches that yield extraneous information, PsychiatryOnline.com employs its semantic indexing to yield the exact hits needed to answer users' questions.

Additionally, Silverchair Content Manager's (SCM) architecture enables a user to download selected book sections to a PDA, as well as create a custom index of the downloaded content on a device for quick reference.

The power of semantic markup creates a web product that is not just a collection of printed materials, but a blended, rich content experience with intuitive navigation.

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