Partner

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Partners Meeting
Springer Product Presentation

• Rio de Janeiro
• 3-5 August, 2005

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• A new Company

• Springer-Verlag y Kluwer Academic Publishers
  operan ahora bajo el nombre Springer
• 1er editor mundial de Libros científicos (gt 3500
  libros anualmente)
• 2do editor mundial de Revistas científicas (1250
  títulos)
• 5000 empleados en más de 70 oficinas en el mundo
• Oficinas Editoriales principales en Boston,
  Nueva York, Heidelberg, Londres, Tokio, Dordrecht
• Parte del grupo editorial Springer
  ScienceBusiness Media

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SpringerLink

• SpringerLink currently serves
• 300 Consortia worldwide with 4,000 libraries
• 6,700 institutions
• 240,000 registered individual users
• 120,000 publication alert subscribers

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Coverage

• Springer covers all the major areas in the
  Sciences
• Focus on Hard sciences but also Medicine and Life
  Sciences
• Medical Program 2005
• 300 books
• 1000 new issues in the 140 Medical journals
• 13000 new articles covering 24 medical
  specialties
• Life Sciences Program 2005
• 450 books
• 2000 new issues in the 215 Life- and Bio-sciences
  Journals
• 25000 new articles

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SpringerLink

• SpringerLink is the premier online publishing
  service from Springer (powered by MetaPress),
  providing

1,200 Online Journals Containing over 2 Million Articles
25 Online Book Series Containing 2,500 volumes
2,000 Online eBooks Containing 600,000 pages
20 Online Reference Works With regular up-dates
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Agenda

• OJA (Online Journal Archive)
• LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences)
• Landolt Börnstein
• Zentralblatt Mathematik
• Major Reference Works
• eBooks

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OJA Bringing Yesterdays Masters to Todays
Minds

• Complete digitization of archival journals
• Add content from Volume I, Issue 1
• Both Springer-Verlag and Kluwer Academic
  Publishers
• 11 Online Library Packages Journals available in
  a subject area package
• Triple the content presently on the online
  publishing platform
• 2 million articles since 1854
• 12-13 million pages, fully searchable by
  publication name, article title and keyword
• Easy access to information previously difficult
  to locate and obtain

Available Now from Springer
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Bringing Yesterdays Masters to Todays Minds

• Product Offering
• Eleven Online Library Packages
• Journals will be available in a subject area
  package
• Each contains 50-180 journal titles
• Titles may appear in more than one package
• All journals from Volume 1, Issue 1 (when
  available)
• Exclusions
• Journals presently not online
• Journals that are co-published (for example Maik
  Nauka)
• Journals not printed in English (Journals
  partially in English are included)
• Journals discontinued prior to1995

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OJA Bringing Yesterdays Masters to Todays
Minds

• Online Archive Specifications
• Searchable PDF (OCR) format at 300 dpi
  Superimposed images XML headers references
  DOIs inserted
• One-off payment for subject package
• Package Price related to number of pages
• Springer Online Archives are available as
  complete subject packages
• Individual articles may be purchased through
  pay-per-view sales

Available Now from Springer
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Journals growth

• Utilize all our assets

Yearly Articles Published (1842-Present)
Articles Published (in 000s)
1997
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Journals Quality content

• Included in Backfile material are articles
  published by 140 Nobel Prize laureates including

Otto P. Diels Chemistry
J.P. PavlovMedicine
Niels H. de BohrPhysics
Michael FreedmanMathematics
1904
1921
1922
1944
1950
1963
1986
Otto Hahn Chemistry
Albert EinsteinPhysics
Sir John EcclesMedicine
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Bringing Yesterdays Masters to Todays Minds

• Product Offering
• Eleven Online Library Packages
• Journals will be available in a subject area
  package
• Each contains 50-180 journal titles
• Titles may appear in more than one package
• All journals from Volume 1, Issue 1 (when
  available)
• Exclusions
• Journals presently not online
• Journals that are co-published (for example Maik
  Nauka)
• Journals not printed in English (Journals
  partially in English are included)
• Journals discontinued prior to1995

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Springer Online Book Series

• Computer Science
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
• Chemistry
• Advances in Biochemical Engineering /
• Biotechnology
• Advances in Polymer Science
• The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
• Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science
• Molecular Sieves
• Structure and Bonding
• Topics in Current Chemistry
• Topics in Organometallic Chemistry

• Earth Sciences
• Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
• Engineering
• Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR)
• Life Sciences
• The Prokaryotes
• Topics in Current Genetics
• Mathematics
• Lecture Notes in Mathematics
• Physics
• Advances in Solid State Physics
• Landolt-Börnstein
• Lecture Notes in Physics
• Springer Tracts in Modern Physics
• Topics in Applied Physics

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

• The series began in 1973 and has grown to over
  3,500 volumes and over 80,000 articles.
• One of the worlds most authoritative computer
  science research forums, covering the latest
  results in all areas of computer and information
  technology research, development and education.

• Bringing new developments in Computer Science and
  Information to your desktop!

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Highlights LNCS

• Highest rate among serials for rejecting
  proposals !!
• theoretical computer science (incl. cryptology)
  80 manuscripts are rejected
• experimental areas 50 manuscripts are rejected
• monographs 90 manuscripts are rejected
• Ranked 1 in ISI citations
• Reflecting its content of high quality

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LNCS Sub Libraries

• SL1 Theoretical Computer Sciences General
  issues
• SL2 Programming and Software Engineering
• SL3 Information Systems and Applications
  (Internet/Web)
• SL4 Security and Cryptology
• SL5 Computer Communication Networks
  Telecommunications
• SL6 Image Processing Computer Vision Pattern
  Recognition

• Publication program 2005
• 33 first International Conferences
• 24 second international Conferences
• 21000 papers of cutting edge material

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Benefits of Online Version of LNCS

• Keep valuable books continuously available
• Unlimited, concurrent usage
• No additional storage space needed
• Multi-lingual interface
• Receive all the functionality of SpringerLink
  such as
• Reliability
• Comprehensive Support
• Multiple Portals
• Subscriber Access
• Alerting Services

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Landolt-Börnstein Online

• Available through SpringerLink

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Landolt-Börnstein Online

• It is a systematic and comprehensive data
  collection covering all fields of
• Physics
• Physical Chemistry
• Geophysics
• Astronomy
• Material Technology
• Engineering
• Landolt-Bornstein (LB) Online brings the work of
  thousands of experts directly to your desktop via
  SpringerLink.
• Serving science and technology for over a
  century, LB Online is one of the most
  internationally respected references.

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Landolt-Börnstein Online

• Scientists, technicians and researchers utilize
  high quality properties data while
• preparing and conducting experiments
• developing and creating theories
• training of young researchers
• LB Online contains
• More than 260 volumes
• More than 30,000 Full Text Documents available as
  PDFs

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Landolt-Börnstein Online

• Users receive a coherent perspective of data,
  text, figures and references all collected,
  selected, assessed and presented in its
  scientific content by experts.
• Access to
• Surveys of numeric tables
• Data sets
• Graphs
• Phase diagrams
• Property tables
• Tables of special abbreviations
• and symbols
• Permanently updated

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Landolt-Börnstein Online

• LB Online is available as whole or by subject
  group.
• 8 subject groups include
• Group I - Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms
  
• Group II - Molecules and Radicals
• Group III - Condensed Matter
• Group IV - Physical Chemistry
• Group V - Geophysics
• Group VI - Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Group VII - Biophysics
• Group VIII - Advanced Materials and Technologies

NextZB
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Zentralblatt fur Mathematik

• The most complete and longest running
• reviewing service in MATH.

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Zentralblatt Math vs MathSciNet
ZMATH MathSciNet
Earliest entry 1868 1940
Covered serials 2,300 1,800
Articles 2,000,000 500,028
Maintained by European Mathematical Society American Mathematical Society
Nodes 12 6
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Zentralblatt MATH

• Digitized content from 1868
• Most complete and longest running abstractingand
  reviewing service in pure mathematics and applied
  mathematics
• Founded in 1931
• Maintained through partnership with European
  Mathematical Society
• Contains 2 Million Entries from 2,300 serials
• Integrated with Jahrbuch Database
• Entries classified according to Mathematics
  Subject Classification Code (MSC 2000)

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Benefits of Zentralblatt Math

• For Librarians and Researchers
• Provide patrons with easy access to
  mathematicalliterature dating back to 1868
• 250,000 links to e-journals
• Multiple formats
• Multi-lingual access
• Cross-reference linking
• Annual Backup-CD for Online Subscribers
• Integrated digitization and archiving projects
• Offers 12 nodes worldwide for fast online access

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Online Reference Works

• Online editions of milestone reference works in
  the fields of
• Computational, Engineering Mathematical
  Sciences
• Currently 8 Online Reference Works
• Earth, Plant, and Environmental Sciences
• Currently 4 Online Reference Works,
• Physical Sciences
• Currently 7 Online Reference Works

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Computational, Engineering Mathematical Sciences

• Online Reference Works including
• Coherent-Domain Optical Methods
• Computer Science and Communications Dictionary
• Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
• Encyclopedia of Operations Research and
  Management Science
• Encyclopedia of Optimization
• Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing
  Management
• Robust Electronic Design
• The Complete Handbook of the Internet

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Earth, Plant, Environmental Sciences

• Online Reference Works including
• The Earth Sciences Encyclopedia Online
• Encyclopedia of Entomology  
• Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual
• The World's Coasts Online    

The most complete reference on Earth Science in
the World!
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Physical Sciences

• Online Reference Works including
• Computational Methods in Biophysics,
  Biomaterials, Biotechnology and Medical Systems
• Concise Encyclopedia of Supersymmetry and
  Noncommutative Structures in Mathematics and
  Physics  
• Handbook of Nanophase and Nanostructured
  Materials
• Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry
• Magnetism  
• Polymer Blends Handbook
• Riegel's Handbook of Industrial Chemistry  

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New e-book strategy for Springer

• Presentation at DotLib Partners Meeting
• Rio de Janeiro, 3-5 August 2005
• Dr. Olaf Ernst
• Global Director e-books

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4 reasons for Springer to believe in E-book
business

• Take advantage of market trend toward growing
  usage of electronic content
• Learning from the Journal Business

Online migration

• New product functionalities (e.g. linked
  references, Pay and Download on Chapter-level,
  integrated search)
• New services (easy to browse and cite, alerting)
• Usage statistics

Product Innovation
Journals (300 mln)xxx

• Customized, subject based book packages
• Flexibility Ownership or subscription model
• Direct selling to libraries and corporate
  customers

New business Model

• Volume (1 STM book publisher)
• Brand reputation (Quality)
• Author relationship

CompetitiveAdvantage
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Initial feedback from the target groups shows
clear relevance
Researchers/Authors
Libraries

• More than 50 would like to have more online
  books
• 71 want more reference works
• 65 would like to receive content both at the
  chapter and whole-book level
• 50 have no problem reading full text PDFs on the
  screen

• Like the flexibility choose business
  model/content that best meets their needs
• Big institutes prefer the volume deal
• Like to collect as much quality e-content as
  possible
• Pricing models have to be easy and clearly
  communicated

Added value of integrated e-content
Waiting for interesting offer from publishers
Source SpringerLink user survey, n 1.332 Nov.
04Library Advisory Board U.S. (Nov. 04), Asia
(March 05), Europe (May 05) ALA, June 05
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Springers E-book activities

• Springer is digitizing all book content (e.g.
  3.500 books in 05) from 2005 forward
• E-books (mainly monographs) in subject based
  packages (11 online libraries) e-book series
  (e.g. LNCS) and e-MRWs (e.g. Landolt-Boernstein)
  

Content
Journals (300 mln)xxx
Channel

• Develop SpringerLink as an integrated e-content
  platform for journals, books and MRW
• Direct sales off e-book content to libraries

Business/Pricing models

• Flexibility of subscription vs. ownership model
• Price levels differ by size and type of academic
  institution

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New E-book prototype integrates all book content
of Springer
- Design Proposal -
Market Launch for testing Oct. 05
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Integrated e-content platform on SpringerLink
with added values to users
- Design Proposal -

• Market Launch
• Mai 06
• New Design
• New search
• engine (Endeca)
• New Linked references
• Concurrent user access
• New usage statistics
• ..

Simplify and improve functionality, search and
user interface
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Proposed business models should differ by e-book
content
Subscription
Ownership

• License fee for annual access to subscribed
  content plus yearly updates.
• Archiving/Storage rights for the content/updates
  subscribed to.
• Limited perpetual access (after 2 years annual
  maintenance fee).

• One time purchase for ongoing online access to
  sold e-book packages (online libraries)
• Multi year contracts possible.
• Archiving/Storage rights for owned content.
• Unlimited perpetual access for owned content.

Book series/MRW Journalized Books
E-books (mainly Monographs)
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Proposed pricing model for e-book content
offerings

• Base Value (BV) List price of package minus
  volume discount List price of individual MRW or
  book serie (e.g. LNCS)
• Two axes which determine pricing levels
  (Multiplier of BV)
• Size of institution ( of researchers/students)
• Type of institution (School/University/RD
  Institut)

50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 5,000
Size
Price
researchers and or students
BV
School
University
RD-Institut
Type
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E-book offerings in 2005

• Currently available on Springer Link
• Landolt-Börnstein (9 parts, 280 volumes, pdf
  format)
• Bookseries (24, incl. LNCS)
• Online eBooks powered by Netlibrary (2000
  titles, KAP/Springer titles up to 2004)
• Major Reference Works (19 titles, 100 volumes)
• Upcoming for 2005 and later New e-book platform
  on SpringerLink
• E-books approx. 3.500 e-book titles (total
  unique HC book production of 05)
• All e-book series with new volumes (e.g. LNCS
  LNM LNP etc.)
• All e-MRWs with new volume updates (e.g. LB)