4-1 A&I Databases as Starting Points for Providing Solutions for the Academic and Research Communities Jack O’Toole Senior Director, Emerging Markets Engineering Information, Inc.

4-2 Modern Publishing Process Distribution Cataloging Abstracting Acceptance Production Publication Submission Peer review Revision Paper creation Informal peer review Proposal Experiment Results Author web site Preprint Server PreviewE.journals

4-3 Publisher sends print issues to Ei Hoboken –Ei forwards photocopies to indexers at Philippines Indexer keys abstracts and adds index terms –Indexer sends electronic abstracts to Ei Ei puts e-abstracts on tape/ftp and CPX-Web Time production process: weeks Production Process COMPENDEX

4-4 Traditional Currency Pattern months 20 % 10 %

4-5 Future Production Process Electronic.Abstract Indexing Web presence of abstract in CPX COMPENDEX Paper Abstract WWW

4-6 Article Relations Scientific Article Citation Related Data Related article Cited by

4-7 CPX and the Future Goal: CPX as starting point for discovery Requires: Timeliness: through e-flow Accuracy: through e-flow Coverage: through e-flow plus... Connectivity (linking to other content)... Intelligence (add value to content)...

4-8 Coverage E-flow provides: –easy access to more journals –easy access to all articles therein Add other content types: –books, and pre-prints –authors send in abstracts –creation of “CPX-timely”

4-9 Author versionpreprintpreviewpublication CPX timely………………………………………….CPX

4-10 Create links to other content –full text, patents, standards, regulations –company web sites, products, databases Requires meaningful tagging: –company names, products, compounds, … –used in automatic link construction Possibly start using XML Connectivity & Tagging

4-11 Intelligence Invest in manual content enrichment (indexing) Examples: –tag compounds with their roles –add problem and solution per article –continue to improve thesaurus

4-12 Interlinked & Searchable VILLAGE 2 Full text EngDirect/others Consulting/ Expert Services People News Compendex Web Abstracts Patents Standards Products VILLAGE 1 Engineering Direct Compendex Web AbstractsConsulting Databases Overview info Village 1To ……….Village 2