New Content on ScienceDirect

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New Content on ScienceDirect

• Dr. Lukas Mayerhoff
• Account Manager
• l.mayerhoff_at_elsevier.com

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Topics

• The Elsevier product portfolio
• New products overview
• Backfiles
• Books Series online
• MRW online
• Pricing and Licensing

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Managing Electronic Content
Web Portals Layer
Federated Search Layer
Bibliographic Data Layer
AI Databases
OPAC
Resources Layer
Library Management Systems
grey literature / datasets / multimedia /
books local sources / lecture notes /
dissertations e-learning content/modules community
news/jobs/non-science
full text journalsbooksmultimedia
www
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Managing Electronic Content Elsevier products
Web Portals Layer
ENCompass
Federated Search Layer
Scirus
ENCompass
Endeavour Informations Systems
Bibliographic Data Layer
Discovery Gate , EV2 , Embase.com, Crossfire
Beilstein, Gmelin, MDL DBs
Emscope
Resources Layer
www
ScienceDirect
ENCompass, I LS Voyager
STM Publisher Content
Internal Content
Other
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ScienceDirect - Full-Text Content

• Journals
• Current issues
• Access to 4 years backwards from year of first
  subscription
• Building an archive for subscribed titles
• Backfiles
• Growing program of back issues to Volume 1, issue
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• Book Series
• Reference Works

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Added value of electronic full text

• 24 hours availability
• Multiple-users, campus-wide access
• No need for multiple copies, shelving space and
  administration savings
• Cross-referencing
• Linking to other types of contents in SD
• Linking to other publishers contents via
  Cross-Ref
• ScienceDirects functionality, support and usage
  reports.

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Backfiles Project

• Initiative to digitise all Elsevier owned
  journals from 1994 back to volume 1 number 1
• Compiled and sold as a complete subject package
• Started in 2001
• 6 months sourcing and shipping to Manila
• 9 months inventorisation and database creation
• 1.5 years compilation of titles per package
• 3 years scanning and processing
• 8 Core project team members 1000 workers in
  Manila
• Stakeholders - ES publishing company and the
  scientific community
• Result tripling of the SD database

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The Lancet, Volume one, Issue one
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The Lancet, Volume 1, Issue 1 on ScienceDirect
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Four Sea Containers Two Air Containers
Millions of pages 40 million just for scanning
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SD and Backfiles in Perspective
8 million articles 70 million pages 35
million double sided sheets 3.8 KM
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Backfiles - Usage of historical information

• 16 of the print articles used is older then 5
  years

Source King et al. 1998.
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Backfiles - Packages

• Collections coming soon
• Medicine and Dentistry (2004)
• Nursing and Health Professions (2004)
• Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine (2004)
• Cell Press (2004)
• Harcourt Health Science

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Licensing models for journals on ScienceDirect
Volume 1 Issue 1
Backfiles
1995
1996
1997
Journal Backfiles
1998
1999
Freedom Collection
2000
2001
Subject Collections
SDOL License Agreement
2002
2003
Web Editions
Now
Print Subscriptions
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Book Series - Overview

• Contain review articles and essays on current
  research in a defined area, or a comprehensive
  overview of a particular topic
• Typically graduate student through researcher are
  end-user candidates
• Online Series publish regularly, at least one
  volume per year
• Highly cited by bibliographic databases
• Potentially high usage per article

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Elsevier Book Series on ScienceDirect

• Online Book Series
• First 100 Book Series were launched in 2004
• Chemistry Package 12 titles
• Business, Management Economics Package 54
  titles
• Life Sciences Package 33 titles
• Methods in Enzymology Package 1 title
• In 2005 about 200 book series will be available
• License give access to current year and 4 years
  back
• Archiving rights like journals
• Books series are not available individually,
  only in the composed preconfigured packages

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How does the Product function?

• Book Series on ScienceDirect are VERY similar to
  online journals
• Reference linking CrossRef functionality
• Book Series included in All Sources search, Quick
  Search, etc.
• Enabled with New Volume/Issue alerts
• Includes Cited by

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MRW The Starting Point for Research
Tertiary literature
Secondary literature
Primary literature
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Online Reference Works

• 15 Titles Available Now
• Comprehensive Clinical Psychology
• Comprehensive Composite Materials
• Comprehensive Structural Integrity
• Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition
• Encyclopedia of Cancer
• Encyclopedia of Genetics
• Encyclopedia of Hormones
• Encyclopedia of the Human Brain
• Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Technology
• Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy
• Encyclopedia of Separation Science
• International Encyclopedia of the Social
  Behavioral Sciences

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Online Reference Works - Features

• Browsing a variety of indexes depending on type
  of reference work (encyclopedia or
  comprehensive) and its structure
• Browsing and searching the subject index
• Searching at basic or advanced levels across all
  or part of a work
• Extensive linking internally and to external
  primary-source material (including via CrossRef)

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Online Reference Works - The Offer

• Yearly subscription fee - easy to manage your
  budget
• Updates included in that fee
• Discounts on 2 or more
• Elsevier abstracts are free of charge on
  ScienceDirect
• IP-based, plus portable access
• Population-based pricing
• Usage reports
• Training, dedicated helpdesk support
• Free trials

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Pricing and Licensing - Summary

• Backfiles
• One time payment for each archive package
• Book Series - Online
• Like for journals Yearly subscription model
• 4 years back and current year building archival
  policy
• Major Reference Works Online
• Yearly subscription without archival policy
• Archive Print version available at deeply
  discounted price

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Thank you!