Elsevier Solutions for the Digital Library

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Elsevier Solutions for the Digital Library

• Geoffrey Adams
• Director, IT Solutions
• Global Sales Organization

Part II Development of Science Direct Japan,
May 2003
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Overview

• ScienceDirect product family
• Demonstration
• Extending Critical Mass Linking and Crossref
• Future Developments

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ScienceDirect family

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ScienceDirect, ScienceDirect OnSite (SDOS) and
Scirus

• ScienceDirect
• Single Website located in Dayton accessible from
  all over the world
• ScienceDirect OnSite
• Digital Library management control
• Datafeed to local campus closed websites in
  organizations
• Integration with existing systems
• ScienceServer / (En)Compass
• Software with which an organization can build a
  digital library
• Scirus
• Search engine covering all science

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ScienceDirect OnSite

• Digital Library management control
• Ownership of storage and access ES other
  publishers content
• Single customizable interface to all sources,
  including internal publications databases
• Integration with existing systems
• Links to other Web sites
• Intranet speed of access
• 1,700 journals from Elsevier Science
• SGML, Full text PDF files and raw ASCII text
  for searching
• Bibliographic data References in SGML
• Delivered on CD-Rom datasets or via network

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ScienceDirect OnSite customers

• Some Major Fullset (1700 titles) customers
• Taiwan consortium
• British Library
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• University of Toronto
• Peoples Republic of China
• OhioLink
• CSIRO (Australia)

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ScienceDirect and SD OnSite worldwide
Only larger SDOS customers included
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Overcoming the Critical Mass Linking and
CrossRef
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ScienceDirect
Journal
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clicking onreference 90 ...
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for instance, selecting one ...
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..brings you directly to the cited article
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Cited by ...
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Cited by ...
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links to all the articles that cite the target
article
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lets returnto the original article ...
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we are now about to cross the border and
request an article from another publishers
website
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we are now about to cross the border and
request an article from another publishers
website
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we are now about to cross the border and
request an article from another publishers
website
the crossref link identifies the article as an
externally available document
select the CrossRef link in ScienceDirect
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... after whichyou arrive at the abstract page
in the external website
where you can view the full article...
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this was a link FROM ScienceDirect via CrossRef
TOan external website
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now the reverse FROMan external website TOan
article in ScienceDirect
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now the reverse FROMan external website TOan
article in ScienceDirect
FROMthe website of another publisher or ...
FROMthe website of your own library
in this example we will use BioMedNet to find a
journal ...
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... select a journal ...
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... select an article ...
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... after which you arrive at the requested
article
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Relationships without CrossRef
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Relationships with CrossRef
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CrossRef (August 2002)

• The CrossRef Metadata Database covered 6,400
  journals covering more than 5 million articles
• 218 Organisations are participating in CrossRef
• 149 Members (Publishers, Societies, etc)
• 27 Affiliates (Agents, Database hosts, etc.)
• 42 Library affiliates
• 93 Active depositors
• 45 Members creating reference links
• See www.crossref.org

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ScienceDirectPreparing for the Future
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ScienceDirect Preparing for the Future ....

• Areas Of Customer Interest
• More linking via CrossRef
• More content types - patents, reference works
• More search functionality
• More personalisation features
• More content (Backfiles)
• Articles in Press improving timeliness
• Multimedia components

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More choice in content
Comprehensiveness
10,000 titles
Navigational layer
New
3rd party


3rd party
Full-Text ES journals 1,700 (including IDEAL)
New (MRW, Books, patents)
40,000,000 abstracts
Navigational layer
Depth
Backfiles
CrossRef
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Projected To Host 8 Million Articles In 2004
Engineering Technology Neuroscience Earth
Planetary Medicine Materials Decision
Science Computer Science Energy
Power Agricultural Academic Press
Mathematics Economics Psychology Social
Science Physics Astronomy Pharmacology Immunolog
y Bio-Chemistry, Genetics, ..
Chemistry Organic Inorganic Chemical
Engineering Phys. Anal. Chem.