Presented by: Lisa Layton Title: Account Development and Training Manager Date: October 9, 2007 Elsevier Update

2 AgendaAgenda  ScienceDirect New Content  SD Launches eBooks  Functionality  Scopus Update  Questions

3 The Content 8.5 million full-text articles in: JournalsOver 2,000 titles Backfiles1,700 titles Reference Works50 titles Book Series150 titles Handbooks 7 Series (164 Volumes) ………And still growing every day……

4 New content: China Collection China Collection on ScienceDirect  Access to established (society) journals covering the expanding field of Chinese research  Insight into groundbreaking practices and methodologies rarely used elsewhere  Perspectives on the increasingly influential Chinese academic tradition, enhancing your users’ understanding of their field  42 titles currently available and more to follow  Journal examples – Chinese Journal of Biotechnology – Chinese Journal of Catalysis – Journal of the Chinese Medical Association – Journal of Rare Earths  For title list:

5 New content: New Scientist  May be purchased stand alone or part of College Editions  New Scientist is the leading science news magazine with over 680,000 readers worldwide  Published since 1956, New Scientist offers the latest science and technology news from around the world.  For more info see:

6 New Content: Cell Host & Microbe Introducing an exciting new addition to the family of Cell Press journals: Cell Host & Microbe. Cell Host & Microbe will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and concepts between scientists studying the microbe with those studying the host immune and cellular response upon colonization or infection by a microbe. Topics covered will include:  molecular and cell biology of microbes  microbial pathogenesis  host cellular and immune response to microbes  immune evasion  therapeutics  evolution and natural history of microbes  vaccine design and development  and emerging pathogens

7 New Content: Cell Stem Cell We are delighted to announce the planned launch of the twelfth Cell Press journal, Cell Stem Cell. Our goal is to provide a forum for the publication of leading stem cell research and the exchange of ideas between scientists working in the burgeoning field of stem cell biology. Cell Stem Cell will be the official affiliated journal of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).

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9 New for 2007: eBooks on ScienceDirect

10 ScienceDirect eBooks expansion summary  3,630 titles in Collection (1995 – 2006) in September 2007  500+ newly published titles added per year from September 2007  What’s in eBooks: – Monographs – Academic Reference – Professional Reference – Stand alone Handbooks – Closed Series  What’s not in (just yet)? – Atlases, Dictionaries,Textbooks

11 Renowned eBooks imprints & diverse subject coverage  Respected and quality-driven imprints – Academic Press – Butterworth-Heinemann (business, technology) – Syngress & Digital Press (computing) – Elsevier Science – Gulf Professional Publishing (petroleum/petrochemical processing) – Morgan Kaufmann (computer science) – Newnes (electrical/electronic engineering) – North-Holland (mathematics) – Pergamon

12 eBooks on ScienceDirect  eBooks launch–PDF only; no abstracts  XML/HTML going forward in Authors being asked to include chapter abstracts for new titles  Users will be able to search, browse and download book content and link to and from referenced journal articles  Keep in mind: – All PDFs can be searched with “Full text search”

13 License policies eBooks  One-time payment FTE based  Perpetual access with ScienceDirect license  Post-termination rights: – Continued access and or tapes, like journals  MARC –records via OCLC at no charge to customer

Collection2008 Collection – eBooks Complete Collection and / or Frontlist Collection eBooks Collection ( ) eBooks Collection (2007, 2008) – eBooks Subject Collections (18 SDOL Collections) eBooks Collection ( ) i.e. ‘Chemistry’ Backlist Collection eBooks Collection (2007, 2008) i.e. ‘Chemistry’ Frontlist Collection Pick and Choose (eBook title level) - Minimum order of $ Collection i.e. CHEMISTRY Purchase Options

15 Released in 2007 – New Functionality  RSS feeds - RSS feeds will be offered, available from the Browse, Search Result, Cited By Result, Topic Alerts, Alerts, Journal/Book Series Home, and Article pages. The Search feed, Topic feed, Citation Feed and Article feed, as they will be named, all contain AiP (when available).  ‘Cited by’ in Scopus – in the Article pages on ScienceDirect, it will be shown how many times the article is cited in Scopus. Clicking on the ‘Cited by in Scopus’ link will take the user to Scopus.  High Quality Artwork – in the Article pages of a selected number of journals and book series will be a 3rd option to thumbnails and full image will be displayed next to the thumbnail images.  Inward linking simplification - OpenURL standard 1.0 instead of 0.1. For current linking partners and customers nothing will change. But new partners can build links more easily and more flexibly (eg. linking to combined issues will be easier). For more info see:

16 New Alert: Top 25 For whom: All researchers worldwide What: Free quarterly alerting service on the Top 25 most downloaded articles per journal title or per subject area Details:  Keep track of the latest trends in your speciality and find out what your colleagues are reading  Click on any of the listed articles takes you to the journal abstract and the option to download any article straight to your desktop Where:

What’s New with Scopus

New for 2007 More content Enhancements to author searching Calculation of h-index Citation visualization tools RSS & HTML feeds

Content Update 785 new titles added in 2007 –Including more than 200 social science titles 30 million records, of which: –15 million records include references going back to 1996 –15 million pre-1996 records go back as far as million references, added to records from 1996 onwards In addition to traditional scientific and academic journals, Scopus covers: –1000 Open Access journals –500 Conference Proceedings –600 Trade Publications –125 Book Series –Medline (100% coverage) –275 million quality web sites including 21 million patents from 5 patent offices UK Patents added to Scirus

New – Enhanced Author Detail Page Find unmatched authors Evaluate citation tracker & h- index with one click Source and affiliation history list

What is the h -Index? Performance measurement tool for scientific authors (similar idea to journal impact factors but for individuals) Established by Jorge Hirsch at UC San Diego “A scientist has index h if h of his/her N p papers have at least h citations each, and the other ( N p - h ) papers have no more than h citations each.” Source: Hirsch, J. E. (2005, September 29). An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. Retrieved from

The h-index A scientist has index h if h of his or her N p papers have at least h citations each and the other ( N p – h ) have at least ≤ h citations each

Authors can exclude self citations here The h-index rating with option to obtain graph h -Index in Citation Report

The h - Graph Plots citations per article Incision = h-index Shows low & highly cited-by counts Completely transparent The date range can change Practical Interpretation: Promotion, Evaluation, Funding, Tenure, Benchmarking

Author Cited-by’s & Author Articles History Shows level of activity Shows highs & lows Users can change the date range

Cross-searching Scopus & CSA Illumina: –Expansion of Scopus coverage in Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities –Expansion of CSA Illumina coverage in Natural Sciences and Business & Economics Seamless & user-friendly: Users will get de- duplicated search results linking to the ‘original’ database Integration offered to joint customers of both products at no extra cost offering more return on investments »Never done before! Partnership Scopus and ProQuest

Integrated results with direct link Result from Sociological Abstracts on CSA Illumina, only shown if user is entitled to that database. Scopus citation count for that article, indicating how often it has been cited in Scopus.

View record in CSA Illumina

Benefits for Scopus users Arts & Humanities users –Search Scopus for high value A&H content of 2,200 titles (1,2 million records) plus the existing 220 titles Scopus already covers Social Sciences users –Next to 2,850 titles in Scopus (back to 1996) users can search an additional 1.3 million records (2,300 titles) with improved coverage to 1952 For CSA Illumina users: –Search an additional 3,500 Scopus titles in Natural Sciences –Find results of 1,000 Scopus titles in Business and Economics

RSS Feeds What is RSS? RSS is an XML format for distributing web content on the internet From Scopus: Your RSS reader will periodically check the feeds you have selected and download new information to your computer. Scopus offers RSS feeds for: – Document searches – Citation searches – Related documents searches (shared references)

31 Thank you for your attention Elsevier Account Development Manager Lisa Layton

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