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Agenda Tools for Your Innovation Essential Content Sources Thesaurus What is ChemVillage ? Handbooks Engineering Innovation – Backfile from 1884 Government Documents and Reports About eBooks Questions

Compendex INSPEC NTIS Link to Over 3000 Engineering E-Journals Library Holding Link to Full Text Options Patents Information Standards CRC Hand Books Web Site SCIRUS NEWS REFEREX

Tools for Your Innovation Engineering Village 2 is Ei’s interface for Engineering & Technical Resources Compendex & INSPEC & NTIS CRC Press Handbooks Referex Patents, US and European Standards Scirus - web search interface Links to full-text journals Document Delivery from Linda Hall Library

Essential Content Source - Compendex Comprehensive, interdisciplinary database for engineering All fields of engineering 5000 Journals 1500 Conference Reports / Proceedings 8 million+ records From Weekly updates Backfile available

Compendex Subject Coverage Mechanical Engineering Breakdown – Aerospace Engineering – Automotive Engineering – Fluid flow: Hydraulics, Pneumatics and Vacuum – Heat and Thermodynamics – Materials Handling – Mechanical Engineering General – Mechanical Engineering Plant and Power – Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering – Nuclear Technology – Railroad Engineering

Essential Content Source - INSPEC Leading international database covering Physics, Electronics, Computing and IT 3500 Journals 1500 Conference Proceedings 7 million+ records from Weekly updates

INSPEC Database Bibliographic Database for Science & Engineering - Physics - Electrical & Electronics Engineering - Computing & Control Engineering - Information Technology Wide range of cross-disciplinary topics Journals, Conferences and Other Documents Global Coverage International Recognition for High Quality

Source Documents Conference Articles 16.8% Journals 72.6% Conference in Journal 8.5% Other 2.1%

INSPEC Database Subjects B Electrical Engineering & Electronics C Computing & Control D Information Technology A Physics 4.3 million 2.5 million 1.9 million 57,000

Searching Compendex & INSPEC Broadest possible range of topics within scientific, applied science, engineering and technical disciplines 14 million records, from Up to date information every week International journal coverage Thesaurus terms, helping end-users to explore more

Records Bibliographic information word abstract Keywords highlighted in RED Ei controlled terms - thesaurus terms Full-text links via Cross Ref, Science Direct etc... Links to local library holdings, catalogue Document delivery link

Record view

Link to Science Direct

Ei Thesaurus New unique thesaurus for Compendex and INSPEC Search and browse terms View and select within hierarchy, broader, narrower and related terms Transfer to search database

Ei Thesaurus

The next generation in research delivery - Backfile from 1884 File Years Million Records One Time Purchase No matter how advanced science becomes, we will always need to acknowledge its foundations. The innovations of tomorrow will be built from the inspiration of the past. A definitive historical record provides a concrete starting point, and the perspective required to fuel progress.

Government Documents and Reports - NTIS National Technical Information Service Approximately 2M Records Back File to 1964 Controlled Vocabulary Federated Search Can Search the Big Three Simultaneously (Village 2/Compendex, INSPEC, NTIS)

About eBooks REFEREX

eBook Background The first electronic book was created in the early 1970’s – Text only and housed on mainframes Electronic books would ‘wait’ over 20 years until the technology could better sustain commercial ebooks Around 2000ish, commercial ebook products picked up steam in the STM market Today, significant S&T players include NetLibrary, Knovel, McGraw-Hill, CRC Press, Pearson (Safari)

Books are not journals! Different commercial models in print – Subscription vs. one off Different format – Journals highly structured Different content – New discovery vs. established reference – Peer review vs. expertise

So what is it? Referex : Ref·ur·eks Referex Engineering aims to be the leading electronic reference product offering the broadest and deepest available coverage of engineering reference

Turn to Ei Engineering Village 2 is the leading discovery platform for the engineering community. – Offering a flagship databases Compendex, Inspec, netBase etc. Strategy for growth calls for active ‘acquisition’ of engineering content to support research and information needs – Growth through up-sell History of ebook success – CRC netBASE product line

The basics Referex Engineering aims to be the leading electronic reference collection in engineering with unparalleled breadth and depth Fully utilizes search technology from market leading discovery platform, Engineering Village 2 Comprised of over 350 reference titles in 3 core collections

3 Referex Engineering Collections Each collections is comprised of 100+ handbooks, monographs and professional reference texts – Mechanical and Materials – Electronic and Electrical – Chemical Petrochemical and Process

Approach to Publishing Our books provide engineers in practice, training and education with the information they need to succeed. A few broad, general references (“Standard Handbooks…”) complemented by focused titles that drill down into more detailed knowledge. By Engineers for Engineers Demystifying Technology series ™ Embedded Technology series™ Rules of Thumb series Broad, high-level view In the trenches…

Approach to Publishing Our Books provide breadth & depth, for engineers in the trenches Provide training materials to undergraduate and graduate engineering students, including at the vocational and technician levels Enable problem-solving, lifetime learning and continuing professional development by supplying accessible, current, and required resources for professionals. Focus on compliance and qualification-driven content where possible (c.f. legal/regulatory/certification/qualification issues) Deliver collected wisdom in current and cutting-edge technologies in “focused” handbook and reference book form Innovate all the above and combine electronic, database, e- learning, eBook, or other applicable forms as appropriate.

…which means that… The book content comprising Referex is of superior quality, timeliness and focus. It offers vertical depth of coverage, concentrated in the 3 collection areas, which is unrivalled in competing products Within the 3 collections there is breadth of content to satisfy wide-ranging search needs. Complementary to 30,000ft, broad viewpoint content offered by CRC Press/EngNetBase Product.

Key Publishing Clusters Our strengths, from which we have drawn content into the Referex collections, are in the following: Electrical Engineering (see detail) Mechanical Engineering Materials & Design Industrial Engineering Health & Safety Chemical/Process Engineering Petroleum Engineering Environmental Engineering & Energy Biomedical Engineering

EE field detail Electronics and signal processing: analog, digital & mixed- signal design, DSP, video/image processing Telecommunications: RF, wireless, optical, broadband, satellite Embedded systems: design, programming and applications, embedded internet, microcontroller applications Computer engineering / systems: digital video/audio design, interfacing, high-speed networking, storage technology & optical computer hardware Optical Engineering; optics & laser devices Instrumentation and control, internet-based control systems Electrical power engineering: renewables, power electronics, power systems, control

Publishing Strategy Engineering growth markets – information in most demand… Communications Engineering (Wireless, RF, signal and image processing, networking and telecommunications, data, video and voice systems) Embedded Systems/Computer Engineering (microprocessor systems for communications, automation, internetworking, interfacing, data acquisition and control etc.) Energy & Environmental Engineering ( from petroleum/fossil fuels with the GPP imprint to the future of sustainable energy – wind, fuel cell etc. – and environmental impact/clean up) Materials/Bio-Engineering (some of the most exciting, and best funded practical engineering development going on is in the intersection of engineering disciplines with materials, biology, and computing.)

Collection fit with Industry Where the collections are focused, and what sectors will be most targetable: Petrochemical/Process Engineering – Oil,gas,refining, energy and pipeline companies. Chemical, process, plastics, food, pharmaceutical and other bulk solids manufacturing companies. Mechanical/Materials Engineering – automotive, aerospace, marine, product design, advanced materials, polymer and plastics, electronics manufacturing companies, bearings, lubrication as well as sealants and adhesives businesses. Electrical Engineering – communications, networking, consumer electronics, hardware design, computer engineering, chip design and manufacturing companies, power supply, power generation and battery design and mfg.

Functionality – Searching eBooks search tab – Select collections – Keyword search of full text – Metadata search (ISBN, Title, Author, Publisher) – Collection browse of book titles – Subject browse of book titles

Chem Village

Launched in January 2002 A Web-based information delivery service offering a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals, and researchers working in chemistry and chemical engineering

ChemVillage Standard Offering – Databases (hosted at Ei; included in standard offering) Chimica Beilstein Abstracts Chemical Business Newsbase – Patent Databases USPTO – SCIRUS

ChemVillage CRC Press Products (add-on pricing) – CHEMnetBASE Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Combined Chemical Dictionary Polymers: a property database Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds – Properties of Organic Compounds – ENVIROnetBASE

CRC Press Handbooks

CRC Press Handbooks ENGnetBASE full-text handbooks Available online via EV2 Searchable PDF full-texts 200+ titles

ENGnetBASE subjects Aerospace Engineering Biomedical Engineering Ceramics & Glasses Chemical Engineering Circuits & Devices Civil Engineering (General) Composite Materials Computer Engineering Construction Engineering Digital Signal Processing Electrical Engineering (General) Electrical Engineering Communications Electronic Packaging Electronics Energy Engineering Engineering (General) Engineering Management Environmental Engineering Fire Science Fluid Dynamics Geotechnical Engineering Vibrations Heat Transfer Image Processing Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing Intelligent Systems Lasers & Optical Engineering Material Science Mechanical Engineering (General) MEMS Metals & Alloys Microelectronics Microwaves & Electromagnetics Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Operations Research Plant Engineering Power Electronics Power Engineering Structural Engineering Systems & Controls Systems Engineering Thermodynamics Transportation Engineering Tribology

Other CRC handbooks CHEMnetBASE ENVIROnetBASE MATHnetBASE STATSnetBASE FOODnetBASE FORENSICnetBASE POLYMERSnetBASE ITKnowledgeBASE InfoSECURITYnetBase

Compendex INSPEC NTIS Link to Over 3000 Engineering E-Journals Library Holding Link to Full Text Options Patents Information Standards CRC Hand Books Web Site SCIRUS NEWS REFEREX