Citation
(2002), "Web site redesign brings Science Photo Library images into view", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 36 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/prog.2002.28036aab.010
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
Web site redesign brings Science Photo Library images into view
Web site redesign brings Science Photo Library images into view
The Science Photo Library has launched its new, enhanced Web site, offering instant access to the most comprehensive source of scientific, medical, technological and space images on the Internet. The site has been redesigned and developed, so that the whole collection of 100,000 images is now online and can be searched directly from the home page. Whether it is a close-up of a DNA, a bird's eye view of tropical rain forest destruction or a telescopic image of a galaxy cluster 50 million light years away – all will be revealed on screen at the click of a mouse.
"We wanted to create a functional, easy to understand, accurate site, where the images are the 'main characters' of the story", explains managing director Giancarlo Zuccotto. "Our database is now the most comprehensive source of scientific, medical, technological and space images on the Internet."
Each week between 150 and 200 new images will be added to the Web site. Users who wish to register can additionally access extended services such as power search functions, lightboxes and online ordering.
Ordering online from SPL can be in transparency or digital form. Low-resolution files can be downloaded directly from the site and high-resolution files can be ordered. Approved customers can download high-resolution files directly from the site. "The redeveloped Web site brings a major improvement to the service we can provide all our customers", says Maria Storey, marketing director of the Science Photo Library.
"For those customers who want to search themselves, we are delighted to be able to offer the option to search our entire collection online. And for those customers who still want us to research for them, the new Web site now allows us to e-mail picture selections as lightboxes and thereby give customers a preview of the search before we send out the pictures."
The Science Photo Library is the world's leading provider of science photographs. Independent, privately owned and the only one of its kind in the UK, SPL is renowned for its high quality picture bank, created by photographers, illustrators, scientists and medical specialists.
For further information please contact: Maria Storey, Marketing & Communications Director, Science Photo Library, 327-329 Harrow Road, London W9 3RB, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7432 1100; Fax: +44 (0) 20 7286 8668; E-mail: maria.storey@sciencephoto.com; URL: www.sciencephoto.com