1. "The New Economics of Bibliographic Publishing … What Librarians and Publishers must accomplish to make research more effective " Presented by Mr. Alan T. C. Lui Chief Representative, Asia - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts March, 2001 – Hong Kong

2. Presentation Will Cover... What’s Happening What’s Important Benefits … You can manage your library better through knowing how to maximize your interest when dealing with Publishers

3. Major Bibliographic Publishers American Institute of Physics (IOP) BIOSIS Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Elsevier Science (Ei) Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) INSPEC, Institution of Electrical Engineers National Library of Medicine (NLM) OCLC Public Affairs Information Service, Inc. Ovid Technologies, Inc. SilverPlatter Information, Inc. The H. W. Wilson Company

4. Bibliographic Publishing Today Identifying Acquiring Processing Abstracting Indexing Structuring Databasing

5. Bibliographic Publishing Today Identifying Acquiring Processing Abstracting Indexing Structuring Databasing Searching* Integrating* Linking* Updating* Monitoring* Alerting* *New Web-based activities

6. Bibliographic Publishing Today Identifying Acquiring Processing Abstracting Indexing Structuring Databasing Searching* Integrating* Linking* Updating* Monitoring* Alerting* Delivering Marketing Selling Usage Reporting* Servicing *New Web-based activities

7. What’s Happening Today High Demand for Quality Information Value Added Becoming More Important, down to individual users level Selling/Servicing More Appreciated Customization and Flexibility Valued Prospect Base Expanding (Internationally) Corporate World Expanding, Maybe? Revenue Increasing

8. What’s Happening Today  Cost of First Copy -- Still Very High  Cost of Duplication -- Approaching Zero  Cost of Delivery -- Approaching Zero  Cost of Selling -- Remains High  Cost of Marketing -- Trending Up  Cost of Human Capital -- Trending Up Pressure on Margins

9. What’s Important To... LibrariansPublishers

10. What’s Important To... Librarians Cost Usefulness Full Text Access Expert vs. Student Accessing Internet Resources Publishers

11. What’s Important To... Librarians Cost Usefulness Full Text Access Expert vs. Student Accessing Internet Resources Publishers Pricing / Education Usage Reporting Linking / Delivery Interface Options Indexing / Filtering

13. Usage Report: Logons

14. Usage Report: By Database

15. Linking Options

16. Full Text Linking

17. Web Resources Database

18. Summary Bibliographic publishing more important than ever Indexing of Web resources -- the next frontier Technology and competition driving down the Cost per Search

19. Thank you very much! 謝謝 ! Alan T. C. Lui – CSA Hong Kong Office Email: alanlui@csa-asia.com Tel: (852) 26365636 Mirror Site in China: csa.tsinghua.edu.cn ; Mirror Site in Taiwan: www.csa.com.tw ; U.S. Main Site: www.csa.com