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Blackwell Publishing Journal Collections

• Jim Kao

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Building Our Story

• Why buy Blackwell Publishings Journal
  Collections

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Partnerships with Societies

• We have publishing partnerships with more
  societies than any other publishers

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Working for more than 600 societies
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Broad Subject Coverage
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Articles published from many countries
2004 Data. Not including HSS journals nor Boston
journals.
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401 STM Journals in 2006 Collection
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357 HSS Journals in 2006 Collection
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Choice and flexibility in our offers

• Pick and choose individual titles
• Standard
• Premium
• Online only
• Collection of titles
• Full Collection
• Science, Tech, Medicine (STM)
• Humanities Social Sciences (HSS)
• Medical Nursing
• Consortial cross-access to subscribed to titles
• Consortial access to all published titles
• Discounted print
• Subject bundles
• Pay per view

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Generous Licensing Terms

• License designed by librarians, for librarians
• License permits
• Walk-in users
• Off-site use
• Course pack use
• Perpetual archival rights to paid-for content
• Access to recent online back files during the
  period of the subscription
• Access to articles published online before print

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Launch of Blackwell Publishings Legacy/Back
Files

• New Legacy Strategy for 2006
• Redefinition
• From 1997 to current volume recent back files
• From Volume 1 to 1996 legacy back files
• From 2006 premium/online-only and consortia
  customers will only be entitled to access recent
  back files (ie from 97)
• Exceptions
• journals that have a general free back file
  policy will be excluded from the sales program
• society members can be offered free access via
  their society site

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Legacy Back Files Pricing

• Pricing
• titles will be priced individually
• pricing will be based on a price per page
• there will be a minimum price of 100
• libraries will either get perpetual access in
  return for a one-off fee

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Blackwell Synergy

• Popular, easy to use journals platform in
  Blackwell Synergy
• Your system works so well I'd love all the
  journals to be Blackwell's! Librarian, Baxter
  Healthcare

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Blackwell Synergy

• Average 5 million sessions per month
• 2.7 million PDFs downloaded per month
• 900k searches carried out on the site each month
• Almost 3000 single articles bought each month
• Atypon contract resigned
• Live 99.31 of the time

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Used in Institutions Around the World
Data source top 1000 customers report, 2004
usage data
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15,000 New Registered Users Each Month
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Demo
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• Online Access
• to the most highly cited
• and reasonably priced journals
• from the worlds leading international
• professional and scholarly
• societies

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Interface
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Browse and Search over 600K articles from 814
journals
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Browsing Journals Articles
Browse by Journals or Articles
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Browsing Journals Articles
Choose to show journals by different groups
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Browsing Journals Articles
Access includes all available online back volumes
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Browsing Journals Articles
or go directly to an article
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Searching
Quick Search
.Other Search Options
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Simple Advanced CrossRef Search
Find exactly the research needed
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Simple Search Example
Search for words or phrases amongst all journals,
or a subset.
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Search Results
Refine Search
Or click straight through to the abstract or
full-text article.
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Free access to journal abstracts
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HTML Full Text Article
Link directly to other databases for author and
keyword searches.
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Images embedded in the html full-text
Images, Figures and tables expand to full screen.
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Seamless reference linking
Link directly from references to cited and citing
articles with CrossRef, ISI, PubMed, CSA, CIS,
JSTOR or Medline links
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Online Early
access to peer-reviewed articles before they
appear in print
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Personal Account - Journal
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Personal Account - Article
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Personal Account - Alerting
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Administrator
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Easy to Use Admin Area
Stay in control of your institutions online
subscriptions, access and usage.
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SFX-compatible holdings file
Download a tab separated holdings file for easy
integration in your OPAC or library website
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Usage Data
First Publisher to produce COUNTER-compliant
usage reports
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Customise Synergy
Upload your institutions logo to appear on every
screen
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Many benefits for endusers
Endusers can register to set up table of contents
e-mail alerts, and access free sample issues
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Benefits of Blackwell Synergy

• Your patrons have access to the most highly cited
  journals from top scholarly societies.
• Full-text HTML and PDF articles with reference
  links to CrossRef, PubMed, ISI, CSA, CIS, JSTOR
  and Medline links.
• Link forward to articles and papers that cite the
  current article.
• Self-service IP administration keeping you in
  control.
• COUNTER-compliant usage data thats easy to
  download.
• MARC 21 compliant holdings file for setting up
  links in your library OPAC
• SFX-compatible holdings file for easy OPAC
  integration.
• OnlineEarly articles available on Synergy before
  print.

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5 reasons to buy from Blackwell Publishing

• We are the worlds leading publisher on behalf of
  academic and professional societies.
• What this means our society journals represent
  excellent quality and value.
• The average prices of our journals are below
  average.
• What this means the cost per use of our journals
  is low.
• We are committed to growing the intellectual
  strength of our journals and to publishing the
  best research.
• What this means our list is continuously growing
  in size and quality.
• Our list is both broad covering a wide range of
  disciplines and deep - we publish several of
  the top titles in many core subject areas.
• What this means our journals can meet the
  research needs of most institutions.
• Our online developments and licensing terms
  ensure that libraries get the most use from their
  purchase.
• What this means the value library customers get
  from their purchase is high.

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Keeping Librarians Informed

• Newsletter distributed by email every 2 months
• Hosted on our Librarians website (10,000 hits
  per month)
• Includes
• New and transfer journal news
• Title changes, cessations, changes in frequency
• New features and how to use them
• Blackwell company updates, policy, and news
• Sign up on our website!
• www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians

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Self Help Resources

• Corporate website resources
• Price list www.blackwellpublishing.com/cservices/p
  ricelist.pdf
• 2006 Collection brochures
• www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians/collection.
  asp?site1
• Synergy guide
• www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians/templates/S
  ynergyInstructions.PDF
• Librarians newsletter
• www.blackwellpublishing.com/librarians/newsletter.
  asp?site1

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New Corporate Website
Entry points for different customer client
groups
News features from Press Room
Top-level subjects listed on home page
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Synergy Redesign later in 2006
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