MINERVA Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung GmbH Your partner for subscriptions, E-journals and books Budapest 2006

founded 1909 part of the Springer Company based in Vienna representatives in Poland and the Czech Republic 17 employees 7,000 customers 45,000 subscriptions ordered books per year management of 3 Austrian consortia

Clients: Universities und Academies –Semmelweis Egyetem Budapest –MTA Pécsi, MTA Szegedi –All Austrian Universities –Statni Technicka in Prague –University Heidelberg Governmental institutions, Hospitals, … –Hungarian and Austrian Parliament –Ministries in Austria –General Hospital Vienna Economy and Industry –Siemens Austria –Böhringer Ingelheim International Organisations –UNO –IAEA

What we can do for you: All Journals, Series and Books, from all over the world published by all publishers – „in Print“ or as electronic version „Gray Literature“ „out of print“-publications → everything that has been published somewhere somehow – in print or electronically

Our Services: search for titles order processing adaptation of the invoices to the needs of your institutions management of the Online accesses to your subscribed journals

The technical tools: Homepage ( –Search for titles in various databases –Online ordering InfoNet (service.minerva.at) –Claim management –Access to your ordering data and invoice data –Information regarding changes of bibliographical data –Information regarding deliveries M/e/o/s ( –Access to full texts of your subscribed journals –Platform for the management of your library‘s links

M/e/o/s Minerva electronic online system meos2.minerva.at about 6,000 titles about 50 publishers (Springer, Blackwell, Thieme, …) other links can be added Statistics management

M/e/o/s 2 – User Access Identification / Registration via IP-Address Powerful search engine –Title –Author –DOI –Keyword –… Search in all titles … … to find out, which journals are available online or limit your search to the subscribed titles … to have access to the full text Direct link to the publisher’s homepage – identification via IP-address

M/e/o/s 2 Administrator’s Access Access protected via Username and Password 4 parts: –Product Management –Category Management –Customer Management –Statistics Management

Customer Management customize M/e/o/s 2 to your needs and likings add your library’s logo create your own welcome text you can fix the welcome page (“default page”) fix the language change your admin-password and username

Product Management enter your own links! –e-Journals and e-Books –Databases –Library relevant links (homepages, internal sites, etc.) –general information (news, the local weather broadcast, cinema program, …) – …

Category Management add your categories Institutes Fields of interest “Information”, “News”, … You can then add the relevant products to these categories

Statistics Management Statistics of the access to full texts can be done by the administrator himself –Chose the period (monthly, quarterly, semi- annually, annually) –Fix the parameter (product related data and customer related data – title, abstract, IP- address, …)

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