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Niels Bohr Physics Louis Pasteur (Chemistry) Alexander Fleming Medicine Albert Einstein Physics George F. Smoot Physics Roger D. Kornberg Chemistry Craig C Mello Medicine John C. Mather Physics Nobel Prize winners published with Elsevier The Publishing House of Elzevir was first established in 1580 by Lowys Elzevir Jacobus George Robbers established the modern Elsevier Company in 1880 Long Heritage of Publishing Leading Books The publication of “Gray’s Anatomy” in 1858 was a landmark for the study of the human anatomy and in many ways for the whole of medicine The publication of the book, edited by Sir Alexander Fleming, about a revolutionary new antibiotic, “Penicillin: Its Practical Application” in 1946` Galileo published his “Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intoro a due nuoue scienze” — his last work — with Elzevir despite being banned by the Inquisition and is recognized as the first important work of modern physics Elsevier has a long heritage of publishing renowned works by leading authors and prize winners

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Share of Articles Elsevier articles are the most used and most cited resources driving leading research Elsevier Wiley - Blackwell Springer WK T&F Learned Societies University press Others Elsevier Wiley - Blackwell Springer WK T&F Learned Societies University press Others Elsevier’s journals are the world’s largest resource… Share of Citations … and are the most used and cited by the scientific community Contribution to Research

~4,000 by 2008 Content on ScienceDirect today ~4 million articles 163 titles 51 titles 7 series ~4.7 million articles 2000 journals Handbooks Reference Works Book Series present Backfiles pre 1995 eBooks

Benefits of e-books on ScienceDirect – Same familiar platform with integrated book and journal searching – Fair use policy (no Digital Rights Management) – No more lost or damaged copies, saving shelf space – Multimedia possibilities – Linking and searching between volumes and between other content types

Are part of an ongoing series. 7 series available Volume one to current issue Commissioning and invitation only 15 year life cycle Regularly updated as research work is cutting edge. Subject packages available: Chemistry, Life Science, Business/Econ, Social Sciences, Psychology Other individual titles available including Methods in Enzymology A compendium of definitive summaries, references and glossaries that act as an introduction to a subject area E.g. Encyclopaedias or Comprehensive Reference Works Available Books on ScienceDirect Book SeriesReference WorksHandbooks Books on ScienceDirect Nearly all of Elsevier’s academic book titles are included like: Academic and professional reference books, Text reference books, Closed Handbook Series, Closed Book Series and Monographs eBooks (new for 2007!)

Wide range of subject areas – Large number of titles Covering 18 subject areas and over 4100 titles Subject Area# of Books Agricultural and Biological Sciences~201 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ~265 Chemical Engineering~348 Chemistry~304 Computer Science~585 Earth and Planetary Sciences~247 Energy~38 Engineering~931 Environmental Science~113 Subject Area# of Books Immunology and Microbiology~114 Material Sciences~186 Mathematics~205 Medicine and Dentistry~80 Neuroscience~120 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science ~74 Physics and Astronomy~112 Psychology~193 Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine ~19

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License policies One-time payment option Perpetual access as long as they have a SDOL license Post-termination rights: Continued access and or tapes, like journals

Purchase Options 1) eBook Complete Backlist Collection and / or Frontlist Collection Backlist Collection ( ) Frontlist Collection (2007, 2008) 2) eBook Subject Collections (18 of the 24 existing SD subject classifications) Backlist Collection ( ) i.e. ‘Chemistry’ Backlist Collection Frontlist Collection (2007, 2008) i.e. ‘Chemistry’ Frontlist Collection

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Facts ScienceDirect – did you know that … – ScienceDirect contains over 8.8 Million peer reviewed articles in over 2,000 peer reviewed journals – 11 million researchers worldwide have access to ScienceDirect. – At peak hours almost 5,000 researchers are online simultaneously. – 36 full text downloads every second during an average working day – Since the launch over 1 billion articles have been downloaded from ScienceDirect

FAST Implementation ScienceDirect has implemented the highly acclaimed FAST Enterprise Search Platform. – This new search engine, which is powerful, quick and flexible, was recently voted ‘Top Search and Retrieval Technology’ in Information Today’s first People’s Choice Awards.

Search Engine FAST Command language and syntax will change: The connector AND is automatically inserted between terms Multiple wildcards may be used in the same word Accents will be recognized FAST has it’s own dictionaries that offers alternatives to possible typos If less than 20 results are found, the system offers alternative spellings

Spell Checker Quick Search Results Search Form 18 Articles Found

Synonyms and Alternative Spellings English and American spellings – behaviour and behavior, flavour and flavor, colour and color Plurals – horse and horses, woman and women, case and cases Synonyms – Aspirin will also search acetylsalicylic acid

55 Additional Clinics Titles Added

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Tips on how to search Hea*t: Finds both heart and heat {heart attack} : Find exact search Heart pre/2 attack: Find articles with 2,1 or 0 words between heart THEN attack hea?t Finds heart, but not heat ‘’’’heart attack’’’’: Find single, plurals Heart w/2 attack: Find articles with 2,1 or o words between heart attack or attack heart

Tips on how to search Hea*t: Finds both heart and heat {heart attack} : Find exact search Heart pre/2 attack: Find articles with 2,1 or 0 words between heart THEN attack hea?t Finds heart, but not heat ‘’’’heart attack’’’’: Find single, plurals Heart w/2 attack: Find articles with 2,1 or o words between heart attack or attack heart

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Search tips: Pre/n finds articles where the first term precedes the second term within a stated number of words

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Usage Stats Web-based, accessible with Admin ID Can be used to calculate the most important costs/usage indicators like CPA ( Cost per Article) CPR ( Cost per Researcher) The most detailed Usage Reports of any full-text platform available Provides valuable insights into users behaviour Easy export options ( HTML or Excel), Graphic reports

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