The Springer eBook Collection…. ….and…..New Products Cem Üzüm Sales Manger D/A/CH, Eastern Europe, Russia, North- and Central Asia Minsk, October 2010 Available on SpringerLink

Agenda Introduction E-Books SpringerMaterials SpringerImages SpringerProtocols Summary & Conclusions

eBook chapters are findable because of metadata! What is an eBook? Digital representation of printed material Available in PDF and/or HTML, etc. Can be fully indexed Can be fully searchable (OPAC, Google, publisher platform, etc.) Readable on any PC, eReader or PDA Can have extra features, such as audio, video, etc. Potentially unlimited amount of copies = users eBook chapters are findable because of metadata!

This is a Springer eBook PDF can be downloaded, saved, printed or put on an eReader The bibliographic information The content

In 2009 nearly 5 million chapter downloads by month! eBook Usage SpringerLink Fulltext Chapter Downloads 2007-2009 (in mio) In 2009 nearly 5 million chapter downloads by month!

eReaders – the future of reading?

SpringerLink eBooks are compatible with mobile readers Find Browse and find content on SpringerLink.com Download Download the PDF documents you need Connect Connect your mobile device to USB port (Sony Reader, iLiad, Kindle, etc) Save Save the PDF files on your reader Read Read the content on your mobile device

eBooks can be purchased in 12 annual Subject Collections Subject Collections 2010 copyright year number of books Behavioral Science 40 Biomedical and Life Science 340 Business and Economics 215 Chemistry and Materials Science 185 Computer Science 780 Earth and Environmental Science 175 Engineering 445 Humanities, Social Science & Law 260 Mathematics and Statistics 365 Medicine 325 Physics and Astronomy 250 Professional Computing and applied Computing 160 Total 3540

What is SpringerMaterials? SpringerMaterials is a new one-stop web platform. It contains a systematic & comprehensive database of selected and critically assessed physico chemical data. Based on Landolt-Börnstein, the unique and top-quality data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. It consists of 70,000 online documents, includes more than 120,000 figures, more than 1 million literature references and over 65,000 keywords. SpringerMaterials will replace the previous Landolt-Börnstein product as of January 2010 Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information

Figures Landolt-Börnstein is a data collection equivalent to >190,000 pages in 70,000 online documents (extracted from 380 printed volumes) >120,000 figures >1 Mio literature references 65,000 keywords >150,000 chemical substances >72,000 element systems >530,000 substance-property pairs nearly 1,5 Mio synonyms Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information

OR For example: 190,000 pages = 380 LaBö Vols. = 23 m piled up Hammering Man in Frankfurt OR Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information

Subject areas covered by SpringerMaterials Particles, Nuclei and Atoms Molecules and Radicals Electronic Structure and Transport Magnetism Semiconductivity Superconductivity Crystallography Thermodynamics Multiphase Systems Advanced Materials Advanced Technologies Astro- and Geophysics Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information

Number of PDF documents by subject area (shown in brackets) Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information

Who uses SpringerMaterials and Why? Academic Institutions: Researchers Corporations: Employees in R&D Departments Find the expert knowledge needed to reliably design new materials Find out which material offers the most suitable parameters for the research project Evaluate and verify experimental data after concrete measurements and refer to known material parameters Save time by not having to scan and evaluate existing literature on the research topic Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information

Who should buy SpringerMaterials Academic institutions with research departments in material science, physics, chemistry, and engineering. Corporate libraries in sectors such as: Chemical Companies and Labs, Aerospace and Defense/ Semiconductors/ Chemical Engineering/ Materials Science Companies, Metallurgy, Metals/ Construction and Materials/ Electrical Components and Equipments/ Industrial Machinery/ Mining Government institutions with materials science, physics, and chemistry research departments Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information

Search via Periodic Table – Search Result Page Select chemical elements Available content shown Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information

Business Model Institutional licenses Database / access-only license Annual subscription fee No local loading Subscribe to the complete collection Tiered pricing based on institutional size and type (FTE/FTR) Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information

What is SpringerImages? A database of over 2 million images and associated pieces of full-text from Springer XML content, and third-party scientific image sources Images Images include: drawings, photos, tables, charts, etc. Open Access Springer Journals biology image library Springer Books Biological Image Library (BioMed Central, biologyimagelibrary.com): Available after the launch. Description: The library is a collection of images, illustrations, movies and animations that are useful for research and education. It is also a new, easy way to share your work with others without losing any rights to it or limiting how you use it in the future. Images.MD (Current Medicine Group, images.md) Description: images.MD compiles over 70,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine Group LLC’s renowned series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts.

Key Facts About SpringerImages - database 2 million+ scientific, technical and medical images Images: photos, graphs, histograms, figures and tables Constantly growing database Variety of sources: SpringerLink, SpringerProtocols, images.MD, and more Peer-reviewed, trusted sources Unlimited concurrent users Availability: Entire collection or Medical and Life Sciences Permission to use images for personal, non-commercial use SpringerImages has its own, independent platform. At the moment no integration with SpringerLink – only connection is linking from an image to original full-text source on SpringerLink

All science image database – strong in medicine and ls Images* Subject Collection 181,000 Biomedicine 312,000 Life Sciences 481,000 Medicine & Public Health 2,000 Pharmacy 240,000 Chemistry 29,000 Computer Science 16,000 Economics/Management Science 6,000 Education 83,000 Engineering 34,000 Environment 3,000 Geography 100,000 Geosciences 15,000 Humanities/Art 18,000 Material Science 5,000 Mathematics 62,000 Physics 10,000 Psychology Social Sciences * Per 1 July 2009

Register once and log in to use features like ’image sets’ and ‘save searches’ Home Page Logo of the institution – access is granted by IP Basic search – search through image captions or all text fields Advanced search - extend your basic search with advanced search options Browse for images by subject area

Save your search (login required) Search Results Page Refine your search results easily by: text, subject, source, publication date or image type Zoom in to have a closer look at the results. Click on one of the thumbnails to go to image details page Drag and drop your favourite images to one of your image sets (log in required) Save your search (login required)

Image Details Page Image tools: see full size image, download orginal article, email, print or bookmark image or add image to a set Keywords – derived from orginal source or added by experts. Users can also add their own keywords Read the full caption of the image Extracts from the orginal article

Export Images Sets Easily browse through your favourite images Export your image sets to a PDF or PowerPoint file with just one click

Business Model Institutional licenses* Database / access-only license No local loading Annual subscription fee Subscribe to one of the following packages: SpringerImages: Full Collection SpringerImages: Medical and Life Sciences collection Tiered pricing based on institutional size and type (FTE/FTR) *Subscriptions for individuals are also available

Used primarily in the life sciences What are protocols? Step-by-step instructions, in a standardized format, that help researchers conduct experiments Predefined written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments including: Bias Safety Equipment Statistical methods Reporting Troubleshooting Used primarily in the life sciences

What makes a good protocol? Complete and thorough instructions Detailed materials list Clearly organized Supporting images/tables Video Protocols Trustworthy source Video Protocols are supplementary to some originally published protocols. Either the entire protocol or more complex sections of the published protocol is reproduced in video format.

Applications Researchers use protocols to: Solve biological problems on a molecular level Identify, understand, manipulate, and explain biological processes, functions, structure, and activity of molecular cell components Target cellular processes involved in disease (useful in developing early diagnosis and targeted treatments) Discover new approaches to treating disease Develop new drugs and lower the cost of drug development

Recreating experiments Protocols are used wherever scientific experiments are conducted Laboratory methods often first published in research literature – these often lack details of what can go wrong, hints and troubleshooting advise. Particularly for life sciences it’s important to document the course experiments precisely, step-by-step, so that other researchers can reproduce them.

Subject Areas Number of Protocols

Discoveribility Majority of Springer Protocols are available in other indexes: MEDLINE PubMed Embase.com Scopus ISI Web of Science Google and Google Scholar And many more…

Largest collection of protocols 2010 2011 protocols 22,000 24,000 SpringerProtocols database adds about 2,000 protocols every year The SpringerProtocols database keeps the alternative version, when a protocol is being updated. This allow labs without latest equipment to produce the same experiment with older equipment or methods Large collection allows researchers to pick the right protocols for the same procedure, e.g. when their labs doesn’t have all equipment available needed for protocols A, they can choose for protocols B.

Annual Content Increase Competitor Overview Publisher Product Protocols Annual Content Increase Update Frequency First Year Wiley Current Protocols 12,500 500-700 Quarterly 1987 Nature Nature Protocols 1225 225 Monthly 2006 Cold Spring Harbor CSH Protocols 1450 250 Springer Springer Protocols 21,724 2,000 Continuously 1980 Nature, Cold Spring Harbor, Springer Protocols counts as of 02/17/2010 Current Protocols, count as provided by website.

Summary SpringerLink Ebooks are here to stay 40.000 + titles on Springerlink 2.462 Journals 21.724 Protocols 1.150 Book Series Databases are here (to stay?) -SpringerMaterials (PS and En) -SpringerImages (LS and MS) Available on SpringerLink

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