Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent Publishers 120 Years

120 YEARS S.Karger AG, founded by Samuel Karger in 1890 in Berlin Karger : 120 Years, Connecting the World of Biomedical Science 2 / May He devised “a plan to gather a collection of compendia which would represent the entire field of medicine in single compartments” and “Turning Medical Progress into Print” The first compendium, the Geburtshulfliche Vademecum, was published in 1890; in 1893, Karger published its first periodical, Dermatologische Xeischirift, which still appears today under the English title Dermatology.

Karger : 120 Years, Connecting the World of Biomedical Science 2 / May Based in Switzerland, family owned and independent Run by the fourth generation Heinz KargerThomas KargerSteven KargerGabriella Karger The fourth generation

Karger : 120 Years, Connecting the World of Biomedical Science 2 / May The newly extended head office of Karger Publishers Earlier site

Karger : 120 Years, Connecting the World of Biomedical Science 2 / May Long History : One Focus S.Karger Publishers since 1890 One Focus - Biomedicine The company employs more than 200 people at the Basel headquarters and has a worldwide network of branch offices and distribution Centers produces close to 80 scientific journals and about 150 serial and non-serial book titles and supplement or themed journal issues per year, primarily in English.journals serialnon-serial All journals and most of the books are also available in electronic format, published online first. From Turning Medical Progress into Print to Connecting the World of Biomedical Science

At the forefront of electronic publishing – an established online presence Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent 2 / May Over a decade of experience connecting clients electronically to high-quality medical content (complete journal and book program since 1998) Over a century of biomedical journal articles available through Karger’s digital archives

Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent 3 / May Karger‘s Case Reports Journals are a series of free, Open Access journals Karger Gazette is a free, annual, newspaper- style publication featuring articles that are both fascinating and important in focus: a free selection of original research, reviews and more on the most critical current topics in medicine Quick access to Karger’s complete book and journal collections and all the information you need

Customized Content Packages for Academic Users Karger Complete Online Journals Karger eBooks Collection Karger Journal Archive Collection Demand driven packages designed and priced to fit your information requirements and budgetary needs 22 / May Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent

4 / May Easy Access to Online Research Access and Access Control Online Content and Special Features How-to-use Tutorial (coming soon)

Access and Access Control Easy Access to Online Research 5 / May Via IP authentication, proxy server or Shibboleth - A single sign-on identification and authentication tool Enables your clients to access library resources easily and securely from any PC Karger implements this service upon request (where available), providing technical support to simplify access management for your online subscriptions Federation Home Organization

Access and Access Control One login to journals, books, and archived content Unlimited multiple-user access Perpetual access to purchased content Help Desk: Friendly, accessible and efficient Library Administrator’s Login (ID + PW) for statistics and holdings overview Easy Access to Online Research 5 / May Salutatio n Logo Library Branding

Access and Access Control: Your Subscriptions Customizable features accessible from every page for every user Easy Access to Online Research 6 / May Salutation Logo Library Branding Salutation Logo

Journal Home Personalized Welcome with your library’s logo on every page Issue overview (online first, current, recent and archive) Link to societies (if applicable) Library Recommendation form RSS Feeds and Alerts for each journal and new book release Free online sample issue for every journal Top 10 articles Online Content: Journals 8 / May Pulldown List for Archived Content (pre-1997) Salutation Logo Library Branding

Online Content: Journals Online Full Text PDF and HMTL full text, Free Abstracts 6 / May Every article has its own ahead-of-print publication date stamp Received: July 14, 2009 Accepted: January 11, 2010 Published online: April 8, 2010

Online Content: Journals 10 / May Supplementary Material for Online Users (when applicable)

Online Content and Special Features Online Full Text and Special Features Article References linked to source material located on the Web 11 / May

12 / May Online Book Content Access to Content of all Serial & Non-serial Books

Online Content and Special Features Search Search per issue, title or complete contents Karger uses the Google Search Appliance for most precise search results 13 / May

Medline/PubMed, Google etc. Data Distributed to More than 40 ePartners Karger Publications Discoverable At All Levels Joining with Key Partners for Maximum Discoverability 14 / May

Nearly all Karger journals and most books series listed in Medline/PubMed Full Text link to Karger and LinkOut functionality Key Partners for Maximum Discoverability 15 / May Medline/PubMed

Key Partners for Maximum Discoverability Google, Google Scholar, Google Book Search Google harvests data directly from Karger Karger sends fully tagged metadata for deep indexing in Google Karger content can also be found in Yahoo and other search engines 16 / May

Key Partners for Maximum Discoverability Data Distributed to More than 40 A&I databases, Search Services Metadata shipped to all major Abstracting and Indexing databases: Medline, CAS, Current Contents, Reference Update, Scopus, Biological Abstracts, EMBASE/Excerpta, Medica, Science Citations Index and more … 17 / May

Key Partners for Maximum Discoverability 18 / May Karger Publications Can Be Found At All Search Levels Karger content is indexed by key partners and often syndicated to other online platforms such as medical or consumer databases – helping users find Karger throughout the Web

Offering Services to Add Value Combining Top Industry Standards with Partnerships to Link Content Online Support that Goes Behind the Scenes 19 / May

Statistics COUNTER compliant Karger interactive statistics Support that Goes Behind the Scenes 20 / May

Support that Goes Behind the Scenes Offering Services to Add Value Library records management: new releases downloads, titles registered in WorldCat for loading on OPAC Metadata formats: MARC, ONIX, Excel, and Text 21 / May Dark Archive: in Cooperation with OCLC

Support that Goes Behind the Scenes Combining Top Industry Standards with Partnerships to Link Content PubMed ID displayed at the article level with link to article in PubMed DOI/CrossRef (Digital Object Identifier) at the article level EndNote (Citation management download) 22 / May

Support that Goes Behind the Scenes All publications are OpenURL- supported 23 / May Combing Top Industry Standards with Partnerships to Link Content SFX (ExLibris) link resolvers help clients access reference materials easily within the library system by identifying online or physical rights, and automatically linking to the source work.

Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent Easy Access to Online Research Providing tools to give you and your clients access wherever you are Putting all the information you need at your fingertips in a smooth online environment at Joining with Partners for Maximum Discoverability Placement in Google and PubMed/ Medline makes Karger content highly discoverable Karger also distributes data to more than 40 key A&I databases Online Support that Goes Behind the Scenes Karger provides services to help ensure that libraries can provide top service to their clients, from records management to interactive statistics ePartnership with important industry databases and service providers such as PubMed, CrossRef and SFX/ ExLibris allow for maximum, easy linking to quality medical content Summary 24 / May

20 / May Karger Headquarters S. Karger AG P.O Box CH-4009 Basel (Switzerland) Karger Regional Office (Malaysia) -South East Asia, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Tel: Hp: Contact: Raymond Chew 周邦喜 Karger: 120 YEARS, Connecting the World of Biomedical Science