Chris James

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Chris James 2007
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Why did libraries purchase books on
ScienceDirect?

• What factors influenced the purchase of Books on
  ScienceDirect
• - Simultaneous user access
• - Content Quality
• - Ease of use
• - Linking
• - Costs
• - Storage
• 2006 Results from research with 5 university
  libraries worldwide conducted by an external
  agency

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Benefits of e-books on ScienceDirect
Counter Compliant

• Same familiar platform with integrated book and
  journal searching
• Fair use policy (no Digital Rights Management)
• No more lost or damaged copies, saving shelf
  space
• Multimedia possibilities
• Linking and searching between volumes and between
  other content types
• Usage reports for the different content

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Available Books on ScienceDirect
Books on ScienceDirect
Book Series
Reference Works
Handbooks
eBooks (new for 2007!)

• Regularly updated as research work is cutting
  edge.
• Subject packages available Chemistry, Life
  Science, Business/Econ, Social Sciences,
  Psychology
• Other individual titles available including
  Methods in Enzymology

• A compendium of definitive summaries, references
  and glossaries that act as an introduction to a
  subject area
• E.g. Encyclopaedias or Comprehensive Reference
  Works

• Nearly all of Elseviers academic book titles
  are included like Academic and professional
  reference books, Text reference books, Closed
  Handbook Series, Closed Book Series and Monographs

• Are part of an ongoing series.
• 7 series available
• Volume one to current issue
• Commissioning and invitation only
• 15 year life cycle

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Books on ScienceDirect
                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                            

• Apart from growing the current book portfolio
  ScienceDirect launches additional books
• May 2007 500 Books on Trial
• End August 2007 4000 Books start
• Adding Yearly 500 800 Frontlist titles

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Elsevier Book Series

• New volumes published regularly.
• Focus on Advances in or Progress in etc.
• Series ISSN, volume ISBNs.
• Peer-reviewed, often highly cited.
• 163 Series now available in 7 packages
  including- Life Sciences
• - Psychology
• - Methods in Enzymology
• - Methods in Enzymology Backfiles from 1955

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Elsevier Reference Works

• High quality reference material.
• Highly detailed and structured.
• Highly used and cited.
• 51 now available on ScienceDirect including
• Encyclopedia of Cancer
• Encyclopedia of Endocrine Diseases
• Encyclopedia of Gastroenterology
• Encyclopedia of Hormones
• Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition
• Encyclopedia of Immunology
• Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Toxicology
• Encyclopedia of Virology
• Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry
• Meyler's Side effects on Drugs
• Encyclopedia of Genetics

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Elsevier Handbooks series

• Launched 7 series in Chemistry, Mathematics,
  Physics and Economics in 2005.
• Chapters by commissioning invitation only.
• Validated, refereed and edited by authoritative
  editors
• Highly cited.
• Usually long life cycle up to 15 years.

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Which titles are part of the eBooks programme?

• ALL academic ST books Books that are geared to
  upper level graduates and above
• - Monographs
• - Text reference
• - Professional reference
• - Series
• Note The Textbooks are excluded
• High quality Imprints such as Academic Press,
  Pergamon, Elsevier Science, North-Holland, JAI
  Press, Butterworth-Heineman
• Total in ScienceDirect in 2007 approximately
  4,000 books

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eBooks offered in 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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License policies

• One-time payment option
• Perpetual access as long as they have a SDOL
  license
• Post-termination rights
• Continued access and or tapes, like journals
• MARC records via OCLC (at no extra cost)

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3rd Party Partner Pick and Choose only

• Business models
• Annual platform fee in many cases
• Subscription model for aggregated content in some
  cases
• Traditional print vendors developing e-approval
  plans
• DRM restrictions on printing and downloading
• Books presented in searchable PDF

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SDOL Access vs 3rd Party Partners

• Unlimited Access Simple user access model (IP
  domain)
• No Digital Rights Management and no restrictions
  on printing and downloading. 
• Discounted collections
• Deeper backlist of books 
• ScienceDirect integrates proprietary book content
  with primary literature
• Subscriptions for Book Series, MRWs and Handbooks
• Major Reference Works, Book Series, Handbooks
  provided in XML

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Purchase Options

• 1) eBook Complete Backlist Collection and / or
  Frontlist Collection
• Backlist Collection (1995-2006)
• Frontlist Collection (2007, 2008)
• 2) eBook Subject Collections (18 of the 24
  existing SD subject classifications)
• Backlist Collection (1995-2006) i.e. Chemistry
  Backlist Collection
• Frontlist Collection (2007, 2008) i.e.
  Chemistry Frontlist Collection
• 3) Pick and Choose (eBook title level) - Minimum
  order of EUR 1000

Special Discount Available Until December 2007!
i.e. CHEMISTRY
2007 Collection
2008 Collection
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Promote book titles on ScienceDirect in your
library

• Emails available to send to library users to make
  them aware of a new titles
• Posters, bookmarks and stickers to promote the
  books on ScienceDirect in your library
• Brochures and other informational material
• Printed and online user guides

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Live Demo
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Contact details Elsevier
Chris James Account Development
Manager Northern Europe South Africa Phone
31(0)20 485 3243 E-mail cd.james_at_elsevier.com