"The New Economics of Bibliographic Publishing … What Librarians and Publishers must accomplish to make research more effective " Presented by Mr. Alan T. C. Lui Chief Representative, Asia - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts March, 2001 – Hong Kong

Presentation Will Cover... What’s Happening What’s Important Benefits … You can manage your library better through knowing how to maximize your interest when dealing with Publishers

Major Bibliographic Publishers American Institute of Physics (IOP) BIOSIS Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Elsevier Science (Ei) Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) INSPEC, Institution of Electrical Engineers National Library of Medicine (NLM) OCLC Public Affairs Information Service, Inc. Ovid Technologies, Inc. SilverPlatter Information, Inc. The H. W. Wilson Company

Bibliographic Publishing Today Identifying Acquiring Processing Abstracting Indexing Structuring Databasing

Bibliographic Publishing Today Identifying Acquiring Processing Abstracting Indexing Structuring Databasing Searching* Integrating* Linking* Updating* Monitoring* Alerting* *New Web-based activities

Bibliographic Publishing Today Identifying Acquiring Processing Abstracting Indexing Structuring Databasing Searching* Integrating* Linking* Updating* Monitoring* Alerting* Delivering Marketing Selling Usage Reporting* Servicing *New Web-based activities

What’s Happening Today High Demand for Quality Information Value Added Becoming More Important, down to individual users level Selling/Servicing More Appreciated Customization and Flexibility Valued Prospect Base Expanding (Internationally) Corporate World Expanding, Maybe? Revenue Increasing

What’s Happening Today  Cost of First Copy -- Still Very High  Cost of Duplication -- Approaching Zero  Cost of Delivery -- Approaching Zero  Cost of Selling -- Remains High  Cost of Marketing -- Trending Up  Cost of Human Capital -- Trending Up Pressure on Margins

What’s Important To... LibrariansPublishers

What’s Important To... Librarians Cost Usefulness Full Text Access Expert vs. Student Accessing Internet Resources Publishers

What’s Important To... Librarians Cost Usefulness Full Text Access Expert vs. Student Accessing Internet Resources Publishers Pricing / Education Usage Reporting Linking / Delivery Interface Options Indexing / Filtering

Usage Report: Logons

Usage Report: By Database

Linking Options

Full Text Linking

Web Resources Database

Summary Bibliographic publishing more important than ever Indexing of Web resources -- the next frontier Technology and competition driving down the Cost per Search

Thank you very much! 謝謝 ! Alan T. C. Lui – CSA Hong Kong Office Tel: (852) Mirror Site in China: csa.tsinghua.edu.cn ; Mirror Site in Taiwan: ; U.S. Main Site: