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" 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. Presentation Will Cover. What’s Happening
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"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
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
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 Major Bibliographic Publishers
Bibliographic Publishing Today Identifying Acquiring Processing Abstracting Indexing Structuring Databasing
Bibliographic Publishing Today Identifying Acquiring Processing Abstracting Indexing Structuring Databasing Searching* Integrating* Linking* Updating* Monitoring* Alerting* *New Web-based activities
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
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
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
Librarians Publishers What’s Important To...
Librarians Cost Usefulness Full Text Access Expert vs. Student Accessing Internet Resources Publishers 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 What’s Important To...
Usage Report: Logons
Usage Report: By Database
Summary • Bibliographic publishing more important than ever • Indexing of Web resources -- the next frontier • Technology and competition driving down the Cost per Search
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