1. The Springer eBook Collection….
….and…..New Products
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2. Agenda Introduction E-Books SpringerMaterials SpringerImages
SpringerProtocols
Summary & Conclusions

3. eBook chapters are findable because of metadata!
What is an eBook?
Digital representation of printed material
Available in PDF and/or HTML, etc.
Can be fully indexed
Can be fully searchable (OPAC, Google, publisher platform, etc.)
Readable on any PC, eReader or PDA
Can have extra features, such as audio, video, etc.
Potentially unlimited amount of copies = users
eBook chapters are findable because of metadata!

4. This is a Springer eBook
PDF can be downloaded, saved, printed or put on an eReader
The bibliographic information
The content

5. In 2009 nearly 5 million chapter downloads by month!
eBook Usage
SpringerLink Fulltext Chapter Downloads (in mio)
In 2009 nearly 5 million chapter downloads by month!

6. eReaders – the future of reading?

7. SpringerLink eBooks are compatible with mobile readers
Find
Browse and find content on SpringerLink.com
Download
Download the PDF documents you need
Connect
Connect your mobile device to USB port
(Sony Reader, iLiad, Kindle, etc)
Save
Save the PDF files on your reader
Read
Read the content on your mobile device

8. eBooks can be purchased in 12 annual Subject Collections
Subject Collections 2010 copyright year
number of books
Behavioral Science 40
Biomedical and Life Science
340
Business and Economics
215
Chemistry and Materials Science
185
Computer Science
780
Earth and Environmental Science
175
Engineering
445
Humanities, Social Science & Law
260
Mathematics and Statistics
365
Medicine
325
Physics and Astronomy
250
Professional Computing and applied Computing
160
Total
3540

9. What is SpringerMaterials?
SpringerMaterials is a new one-stop web platform. It contains a systematic & comprehensive database of selected and critically assessed physico chemical data.
Based on Landolt-Börnstein, the unique and top-quality data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering.
It consists of 70,000 online documents, includes more than 120,000 figures, more than 1 million literature references and over 65,000 keywords.
SpringerMaterials will replace the previous Landolt-Börnstein product as of January 2010
Landolt-Börnstein
SpringerMaterials
Siteguide of the Platform
Comparable Products
Additional Information

10. Figures Landolt-Börnstein is a data collection equivalent to
>190,000 pages in 70,000 online documents (extracted from 380 printed volumes)
>120,000 figures
>1 Mio literature references
65,000 keywords
>150,000 chemical substances
>72,000 element systems
>530,000 substance-property pairs
nearly 1,5 Mio synonyms
Landolt-Börnstein
SpringerMaterials
Siteguide of the Platform
Comparable Products
Additional Information

11. OR For example: 190,000 pages = 380 LaBö Vols. = 23 m piled up
Hammering Man in Frankfurt OR
Landolt-Börnstein
SpringerMaterials
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12. Subject areas covered by SpringerMaterials
Particles, Nuclei and Atoms
Molecules and Radicals
Electronic Structure and Transport
Magnetism
Semiconductivity
Superconductivity
Crystallography
Thermodynamics
Multiphase Systems
Advanced Materials
Advanced Technologies
Astro- and Geophysics
Landolt-Börnstein
SpringerMaterials
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13. Number of PDF documents by subject area (shown in brackets)
Landolt-Börnstein
SpringerMaterials
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14. Who uses SpringerMaterials and Why?
Academic Institutions: Researchers
Corporations: Employees in R&D Departments
Find the expert knowledge needed to reliably design new materials
Find out which material offers the most suitable parameters for the research project
Evaluate and verify experimental data after concrete measurements and refer to known material parameters
Save time by not having to scan and evaluate existing literature on the research topic
Landolt-Börnstein
SpringerMaterials
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Comparable Products
Additional Information

15. Who should buy SpringerMaterials
Academic institutions with research departments in material science, physics, chemistry, and engineering.
Corporate libraries in sectors such as: Chemical Companies and Labs, Aerospace and Defense/ Semiconductors/ Chemical Engineering/ Materials Science Companies, Metallurgy, Metals/ Construction and Materials/ Electrical Components and Equipments/ Industrial Machinery/ Mining
Government institutions with materials science, physics, and chemistry research departments
Landolt-Börnstein
SpringerMaterials
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16. Search via Periodic Table – Search Result Page
Select chemical
elements
Available content
shown
Landolt-Börnstein
SpringerMaterials
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Comparable Products
Additional Information

17. Business Model Institutional licenses Database / access-only license
Annual subscription fee
No local loading
Subscribe to the complete collection
Tiered pricing based on institutional size and type (FTE/FTR)
Landolt-Börnstein
SpringerMaterials
Siteguide of the Platform
Comparable Products
Additional Information

18. What is SpringerImages?
A database of over 2 million images and associated pieces of full-text from Springer XML content, and third-party scientific image sources Images
Images include: drawings, photos, tables, charts, etc.
Open Access
Springer Journals
biology image library
Springer Books
Biological Image Library (BioMed Central, biologyimagelibrary.com): Available after the launch.
Description: The library is a collection of images, illustrations, movies and animations that are useful for research and education. It is also a new, easy way to share your work with others without losing any rights to it or limiting how you use it in the future.
Images.MD (Current Medicine Group, images.md)
Description: images.MD compiles over 70,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine Group LLC’s renowned series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts.

19. Key Facts About SpringerImages - database
2 million+ scientific, technical and medical images
Images: photos, graphs, histograms, figures and tables
Constantly growing database
Variety of sources: SpringerLink, SpringerProtocols, images.MD, and more
Peer-reviewed, trusted sources
Unlimited concurrent users
Availability: Entire collection or Medical and Life Sciences
Permission to use images for personal, non-commercial use
SpringerImages has its own, independent platform.
At the moment no integration with SpringerLink – only connection is linking from an image to original full-text source on SpringerLink

20. All science image database – strong in medicine and ls
Images*
Subject Collection
181,000
Biomedicine
312,000
Life Sciences
481,000
Medicine & Public Health
2,000
Pharmacy
240,000
Chemistry
29,000
Computer Science
16,000
Economics/Management Science
6,000
Education
83,000
Engineering
34,000
Environment
3,000
Geography
100,000
Geosciences
15,000
Humanities/Art
18,000
Material Science
5,000
Mathematics
62,000
Physics
10,000
Psychology
Social Sciences
* Per 1 July 2009

21. Register once and log in to use features like ’image sets’ and ‘save searches’
Home Page
Logo of the institution – access is granted by IP
Basic search – search through image captions or all text fields
Advanced search - extend your basic search with advanced search options
Browse for images by subject area

22. Save your search (login required)
Search Results Page
Refine your search results easily by: text, subject, source, publication date or image type
Zoom in to have a closer look at the results. Click on one of the thumbnails to go to image details page
Drag and drop your favourite images to one of your image sets (log in required)
Save your search (login required)

23. Image Details Page
Image tools: see full size image, download orginal article, , print or bookmark image or add image to a set
Keywords – derived from orginal source or added by experts. Users can also add their own keywords
Read the full caption of the image
Extracts from the orginal article

24. Export Images Sets Easily browse through your favourite images
Export your image sets to a PDF or PowerPoint file with just one click

25. Business Model Institutional licenses* Database / access-only license
No local loading
Annual subscription fee
Subscribe to one of the following packages:
SpringerImages: Full Collection
SpringerImages: Medical and Life Sciences collection
Tiered pricing based on institutional size and type (FTE/FTR)
*Subscriptions for individuals are also available

26. Used primarily in the life sciences
What are protocols?
Step-by-step instructions, in a standardized format, that help researchers conduct experiments
Predefined written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments including:
Bias
Safety
Equipment
Statistical methods
Reporting
Troubleshooting
Used primarily in the life sciences

27. What makes a good protocol?
Complete and thorough instructions
Detailed materials list
Clearly organized
Supporting images/tables
Video Protocols
Trustworthy source
Video Protocols are supplementary to some originally published protocols. Either the entire protocol or more complex sections of the published protocol is reproduced in video format.

28. Applications Researchers use protocols to:
Solve biological problems on a molecular level
Identify, understand, manipulate, and explain biological processes, functions, structure, and activity of molecular cell components
Target cellular processes involved in disease (useful in developing early diagnosis and targeted treatments)
Discover new approaches to treating disease
Develop new drugs and lower the cost of drug development

29. Recreating experiments
Protocols are used wherever scientific experiments are conducted
Laboratory methods often first published in research literature – these often lack details of what can go wrong, hints and troubleshooting advise.
Particularly for life sciences it’s important to document the course experiments precisely, step-by-step, so that other researchers can reproduce them.

30. Subject Areas
Number of Protocols

31. Discoveribility
Majority of Springer Protocols are available in other indexes:
MEDLINE
PubMed
Embase.com
Scopus
ISI Web of Science
Google and Google Scholar
And many more…

32. Largest collection of protocols
2010
2011
protocols
22,000
24,000
SpringerProtocols database adds about 2,000 protocols every year
The SpringerProtocols database keeps the alternative version, when a protocol is being updated. This allow labs without latest equipment to produce the same experiment with older equipment or methods
Large collection allows researchers to pick the right protocols for the same procedure, e.g. when their labs doesn’t have all equipment available needed for protocols A, they can choose for protocols B.

33. Annual Content Increase
Competitor Overview
Publisher
Product
Protocols
Annual Content Increase
Update Frequency
First Year
Wiley
Current Protocols
12,500
Quarterly
1987
Nature
Nature Protocols
1225
225
Monthly
2006
Cold Spring Harbor
CSH Protocols
1450
250
Springer
Springer Protocols
21,724
2,000
Continuously
1980
Nature, Cold Spring Harbor, Springer Protocols counts as of 02/17/2010
Current Protocols, count as provided by website.

34. Summary SpringerLink Ebooks are here to stay
titles on Springerlink
2.462 Journals
Protocols
1.150 Book Series
Databases are here (to stay?)
-SpringerMaterials (PS and En)
-SpringerImages (LS and MS)
Available on
SpringerLink

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