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About World Scientific

World Scientific Journals & eBooks Lund Online 2011 Paul Calow, Sales Director Burgundy Information Services Ltd (World Scientific Distributor). About World Scientific. What am I going to talk about?. Publishing Partnerships. About eJournals via WorldSciNet. About eBooks via WorldSciNet.

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About World Scientific

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  1. World Scientific Journals & eBooksLund Online 2011Paul Calow, Sales DirectorBurgundy Information Services Ltd (World Scientific Distributor)

  2. About World Scientific What am I going to talk about? Publishing Partnerships About eJournals via WorldSciNet About eBooks via WorldSciNet What’s new for 2011?

  3. About World Scientific • Established with the support of two Asian Nobel Laureates, C.N.Yang and A.Salam, in 1981 • One of the largest independent STM publishers in the world and the largest in Asia-Pacific • (Managed by publishers and academics, not financial investors) • HQ in Singapore with Editiorial/Sales offices around the world inc. UK and US • >110 journals (>20,000 circulation) • >7,000 books (>300 published each year) • Publish across a broad range of disciplines • (Physical Sciences & Mathematics titles are some of the best among all publishers in these areas) Chen Ning Yang1957 Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam1979 Nobel Laureate

  4. Authors and Contributors • A few examples include: • YoichiroNambu (2008) • Osamu Shimomura (2008) • Ahmed Zewail (1999) • Martinus J. G. Veltman (1999) • Gerardus 'tHooft (1999) • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1991) • Abdus Salam (1979) • Philip W. Anderson (1977) • Chen Ning Yang (1957) World Scientific and its imprints are known to publish titles by prominent scientists, many of which are Nobel Laureates.

  5. Partnerships: The Nobel Foundation Alfred Nobel Nobel Prize Ceremony Nobel Lectures (1996-2000) Among World Scientific’s notable successes was being awarded the exclusive rights in 1991 by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm to publish the entire series of Nobel Lectures.

  6. Partnerships: Imperial College London In 1995, Imperial College Press was founded as a collaboration between Imperial College London and World Scientific. The imprint has since published >600 books, 5 journals, and is one of the few successful, self-sustaining university presses worldwide.

  7. Partnerships: Mathematical Society of Japan • Global distributor for Mathematical Society of Japan • First academic society in Japan - founded in 1877 • >5,000 members • Japanese Journal of Mathematics launched in 1924

  8. World Scientific eJournals • >110 journals, >7,000 articles per year • Subscribe to collections or single titles • Collections by subject • Broad range of subjects covered • Publishing in new/important/emerging disciplines: • Climate Change Economics • Machine Consciousness • Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines • Middle East Development • Adaptive Data Analysis • Discrete Mathematics & Applications • Unlimited simultaneous user access • 60% of titles indexed by ISI • Abstracting metadata sent to Scopus, OCLC, GoogleScholar, Swets, Ebsco etc. • Contributors include: • Stephen Smale • Wolf’s Prize Winner 2007 • George F Smoot • Nobel Prize Winner 2006 • Terence Cao • Fields Medalist 2006 • Frank Wilczek • Nobel Prize Winner 2004 • Wolfgang Ketterle • Nobel Prize Winner 2001 • And many more…

  9. World Scientific eBooks • >500,000 pages of content • >300 titles added yearly • Purchase packages or single titles • Packages by subject or by year • One-time purchase only • Unlimited simultaneous user access • Free Marc Records (inc. ToCs) • New editions treated as new books • PDF files that are downloaded at the chapter level. • No special software required • No print/copy restrictions • Download complete book to local server • Can be used on pdf compatible e-readers • Subject Collections include… • Physical and Applied Sciences • Mathematics • Physics • Chemistry/Materials Science/Nanotechnology • Computer Science • Engineering • Medical Sciences • Medicine and Healthcare • Life Sciences • Social Sciences • Business and Economics • Social Sciences and Asian Studies

  10. World Scientific eArchives • Launched in 2005 • Abstracts and full-text from 1973 • Currently >30,000 articles from >60 journals available • Purchase subject collections or single titles • Physics • Mathematics • Computer Science • Engineering • Medical and Life Sciences • Economics, Finance and Management • Nonlinear Science • Materials Science • One-time perpetual access fee or “leased” subscription

  11. Existing Subscribers in Sweden/Denmark • CHALMERS UNIV OF TECHNOLOGY • HANDELSBANKEN MARKETS • JONKOPING UNIVERSITY • LINKOPING UNIVERSITY • LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY • LULEA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY • LUND UNIVERSITY • MALARDALEN UNIVERSITY • MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY • OREBRO UNIVERSITY • ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY • STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS • STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY • SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH • SWEDISH HERBAL INSTITUTE (SHI) • SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES • UNIVERSITETSSJUKHUSET HAND-OCH PLASTIKKIR KLIN • UNIVERSITY OF SKOVDE • UPPSALA UNIVERSITY • AALBORG HOSPITAL • AALBORG UNIVERSITY • DHI WATER & ENVIRONMENT • NIELS BOHR INSTITUTE • TECHNICAL UNIV OF DENMARK • UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS • UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN • UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK

  12. http://www.worldscinet.com/ • All World Scientific e-content • >110 ejournals • >3,000 ebooks • Journal Archives • Portico Member • ILL/Course packs/Walk-in users • Supply metadata to Summon and Ebsco Discovery Services and to Primo very soon • Data-mining at abstract level only ✘ No COUNTER compliance ✘ No dedicated library admin area ✘ No cross-searching

  13. What’s new for 2011? • New platform launching in 2011 • (August-December?): • Atypon technology – same as ACS, IEEE, OUP, T&F etc… • Improved user interface • Increased visibility of content • Improved integration with federated search systems • Improved searching/browsing across all product types • Dedicated library admin area • COUNTER compliant usage data • Metadata feed to Primo Central

  14. What’s new for 2011?

  15. Useful Links “Navigating WorldSciNet” User Guide http://www.worldscinet.com/librarians/navigating.pdf eJournal Price List http://www.worldscinet.com/journal_prices2011.xls eBook Price List http://ebooks.worldscinet.com/profiles/price_list.xls eArchive Price List http://www.worldscinetarchives.com/prices.shtml eJournal Access Portal http://www.worldscinet.com/ eBook Access Portal http://ebooks.worldscinet.com/ eArchive Access Portal http://archives.worldscinet.com/

  16. Questions? Comments? Thank you! Paul Calow, Sales Director Burgundy Information Services Ltd (World Scientific Distributor) paul@burgundyservices.com

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