Books on ScienceDirect

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Books on ScienceDirect
Presented By Menno Nijssen Date June 27th 2007
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Presentation Overview

• Current Book products available on ScienceDirect
  
• Handbooks, Book Series, Reference Works
• Forthcoming eBooks

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A broader perspective on ScienceDirect

• Offers over 8 million full text articles
• Contains more than a quarter of the worlds
  scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed
  articles
• Over 300 million article downloads per year
• Users get a broad and deep perspective, all from
  one single easy-to-use interface, linking quickly
  and easily to and from
• Book content
• Journal articles
• Reference work entries
• Other publishers' platforms via CrossRef

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Current Books on ScienceDirect
Elsevier Reference Works
Elsevier Book Series
Elsevier Handbooks
IESBS Ency. of Materials Science
Technology Ency. of Energy Treatise on
Geochemistry Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry
Ency. of Physical Sciences Technology Ency. of
Analytical Science Ency. of Condensed Matter
Physics Ency. of Language Linguistics
Life Sciences Methods in Enzymology International
Review of Cytology Progress in Brain
Research Advances in Cancer Research Chemistry Ad
vances in Heterocyclic Chemistry Advances in
Quantum Chemistry
Handbooks in Economics series, 21
sub-series Handbooks in Operations Research and
Management Science, Handbook of Numerical
Analysis, Handbook of Statistics, Handbooks on
the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths,
Handbook of Magnetic Materials, Comprehensive
Analytical Chemistry
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Books on ScienceDirect
Elsevier Reference Works

• Reference works (58 titles)
• Available in various subject areas
• Sold per title
• One-time or subscription payment option
• Post-termination rights
• Continued Access policy similar to journals at
  ScienceDirect ( solely one-time payment option),
• or electronic tape
• or 80 discount on the print
• New titles
• Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry III  
• Ency of Quaternary Science
• Evolution of Nervous system    
• Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II           
• Ency of Gerontology

IESBS Ency. of Materials Science
Technology Ency. of Energy Treatise on
Geochemistry Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry
Ency. of Physical Sciences Technology Ency. of
Analytical Science Ency. of Condensed Matter
Physics Ency. of Language Linguistics
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Books on ScienceDirect
Elsevier Book Series

• Book Series (gt150 series)
• 5 subject packages available
• Chemistry, Life Science, Business/Econ, Social
  Sciences Psychology
• Subscription option
• Sold per discounted packages or per title (if
  publication schedule allows)
• 100 titles available individually as Pick and
  Choose including Methods in Enzymology
• Methods in Enzymology backfile for all volumes
  1955-1999 also available
• Price includes all new volumes coming out
  annually per series
• Post-termination rights
• Continued Access policy similar to journals at
  ScienceDirect
• or electronic tape

Life Sciences Methods in Enzymology International
Review of Cytology Progress in Brain
Research Advances in Cancer Research Chemistry Ad
vances in Heterocyclic Chemistry Advances in
Quantum Chemistry
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Books on ScienceDirect
Elsevier Handbooks

• Handbooks
• Available in various subject areas
• Sold per Series 7 series available
• Upfront and / or subscription payment option
• Post-termination rights
• Electronic tape
• or 80 discount on the print

Handbooks in Economics series, 21
sub-series Handbooks in Operations Research and
Management Science, Handbook of Numerical
Analysis, Handbook of Statistics, Handbooks on
the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths,
Handbook of Magnetic Materials, Comprehensive
Analytical Chemistry
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New on ScienceDirect eBooks
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eBooks imprints on ScienceDirect

• Academic Press
• Butterworth-Heinemann (business, technology)
• Syngress Digital Press (computing)
• Elsevier Science
• Gulf Professional Publishing (petroleum/petrochemi
  cal processing)
• Morgan Kaufmann (computer science)
• Newnes (electrical/electronic engineering)
• North-Holland (mathematics)
• Pergamon

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Business model

• Collections
• Complete eBooks Collection 1995-2006 vs. Subject
  Collections (18)
• Collection 1995-2006 and Frontlist Collections

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Quality content Award winning titles
Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 2005
Robert Aumann Handbooks in Economics Series
Choice 2004-2005  Outstanding Academic Titles
Awards Encyclopedia of Energy Encyclopedia of
Forest Sciences Library Journal Best Reference
2005 Encyclopedia of Geology Library Journal
Best Reference (previous years) Encyclopedia
of Atmospheric Sciences Encyclopedia of
Cancer Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
Award Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition Winner
of Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) Mary B.
Ansari Best Reference Work Award Treatise of
Geochemistry
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Quality content - Award winning titles

• Outstanding Reference Source from ALA's Reference
  User Services Assoc. Encyclopedia of
  Biodiversity
• Commended Title in the Mental Health category by
  the BMA
• Encyclopedia of Stress
• Highly Commended title in Basic and Clinical
  Sciences from the BMA
• Encyclopedia of Virology
• Highly Commended title in the Basic and Clinical
  Sciences from the BMA
• Encyclopedia of Immunology
• Library Journal Best Reference Sources
• Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
• Winner of the Best Reference Award 2004, American
  Society for Engineering Education, Eng
  Librarian's Division
• Comprehensive Structural Integrity
• Honorable Mention in ALA Dartmouth Medal
• Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences

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18 Subject Areas 3,630 titles in eBooks
Collection 1995-2006

• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 186
  books
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  248 books
• Chemical Engineering 315 books
• Chemistry 270 books
• Computer Science 466 books
• Earth and Planetary Sciences 215 books
• Energy 32 books
• Engineering 834 books
• Environmental Science 89 books
• Immunology and Microbiology 109 books
• Material Sciences 171 books
• Mathematics 180 books
• Medicine and Dentistry 65 books
• Neuroscience 101 books
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Sc.
  63 books
• Physics and Astronomy 90 books
• Psychology 178 books
• Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine
  18 books

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eBooks on ScienceDirect

• eBooks launchPDF only no abstracts.
• XML/HTML going forward in 2008. Authors being
  asked to include chapter abstracts for new
  titles.
• Keep in mind
• All PDFs can be searched with Full text search

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eBooks launch timeline

• Introduction trial 500 books or
• Subject collection trials
• Physical Science and engineering 25 books
• Life Sciences 25 books
• Chemistry 25 books

Commercial launch eBooks Collection 1995-2006
Introduction trial Subject collection trials
continue
Launch eBooks Collection 2007
9th of May 07 Aug/Sept 07 Sept /
Oct 07 Dec 07
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ScienceDirect eBooks expansion summary

• 3,630 titles in Collection (1995 2006) in
  September 2007
• 500 newly published titles added per year from
  September 2007
• Whats In eBooks
• Monographs
• Academic Reference
• Professional Reference
• Stand alone Handbooks
• Closed Series
• Whats not in (just yet)?
• Atlases, Dictionaries,Textbooks

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New ScienceDirect Informative site books May 2007

• Features
• - Subject area pages plus book title pages
• - Pricing will be available for all titles and
  collections
• - Top 10 books in each area
• - Collateral, emails and banners to help you
  promote to your users
• www.info.sciencedirect.com/books

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• Questions?

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