The importance of scholarly information in the research process

1. The importance of scholarly information in the research process Endre Béky Account ManagerELSEVIER B.V. Date: April 14, 2009

2. Introduction Introduction • Dissemination, by scientific publishers, of high quality scientific output across the globe is a crucial part of research • In recent years the move from paper to electronic content delivery has drastically changed researchers time-spending • Researchers are able to spend significantly less time on searching for relevant content and at the same time have access to a wider range of content • At the same time the increase of usage clearly positively affects the quantity and quality of scientific output • Comparing macro-economic and demographic data with the uptake of usage and scientific output enables decision-makers to analyze the productivity and efficiency of their investments • Elsevier has invested heavily in the increase of productivity and efficiency of researchers all over the world through the ScienceDirect platform, Scopus and many other highly specialized products

3. Introduction • Organise editorial boards • Launch new specialist journals Solicit and manage submissions Manage peer review Archive and promote Publish and disseminate Edit and prepare Production Elsevier is the leading S&T publisher with a market share of 20-25% • 1,000 new editors per year • 18 new journals per year • >500,000+ article submissions per year • 200,000 referees • 1 million referee reports per year • 8 million articles now available • 40%-90% of articles rejected • 10 million researchers • 4,500+ institutions • 180+ countries • >300 million+ downloads per year • 2.5 million print pages per year • 7,000 editors • 70,000 editorial board members • 6.5 million author/publisher communications per year • >250,000 new articles produced per year • 180 years of back issues scanned, processed and data-tagged

4. Introduction • Organise editorial boards • Launch new specialist journals Solicit and manage submissions Manage peer review Archive and promote Publish and disseminate Edit and prepare Production Elsevier invests significantly to service its Academic, Government and Corporate clients in the most efficient way Author Gateway and Elsevier Editorial Systems $15 million ScienceDirect Scopus Scirus eNewsletters and alerts >$200 million eJournal Backfiles eReference Works $40 million Electronic Warehouse $15 million Production Tracking System $5 million Estimated cumulative investment since 2000

5. Introduction Elsevier is the leading STM journal publisher in Ukraine with a 17.5% paper market share # Publications at Elsevier in Ukraine 2007 Market share of Articles in Ukraine Indexed on Scopus # Citations received (2004-2007)

6. Introduction Assets/ Laboratories The training and Physical fitness of the athlete A good position at the start (Indicated by demographic data) (Research performance indicators) High Performance Research Engine Access to Content Resources/ Researchers The Quality of your shoes (Elsevier provides high quality access) Research is like running a marathon…

7. Macro-economics The training and physical fitness of the athlete Haile Gebrselassie Born: 18-04-1973 Nat.: Ethiopian Haile finishing first in the 2007 marathon of Berlin in a new world-record of 2 hours 4 minutes and 26 seconds

8. Macro-economics Population (X Mio) # of researchers (X Thousand) (%) of total population Growth rate 0.3% 0.1% -0.1% -0.3% -0.7% 0.27% 0.26% 0.24% 0.16% - % GDP (PPP) (X Bln $) R&D Spend (X Mio $) Growth rate (%) of GDP 2.8% 3.9% 6.4% 3.9% 7.1% 1.7% 1.1% 1.4% 1.0% 1.1% Economic growth in Ukraine is above UK, however R&D Spendand # of researchers can be improved Source: CIA world book of facts 2007, UNESCO, All values are against GDP(PPP)

9. Macro-economics The per capita R&D spend shows room for improvement 2006 – GDP/Capita 2006 – R&D-spend/Capita 4.1X 1.8X 1.5 X 1.2 X 7.5 X 3.2 X 1.9 X 1.9 X $ $ ? Low and Medium developed countries can significantly increase their performance in R&D by increasing their investment per Capita to the UK-GDP/Capita ratio Source: CIA world book of facts 2007, UNESCO, All values are against GDP(PPP)

10. comparing countries research performance To win a marathon a good position at the start is crucial Ukraine Czech Republic Hungary Spain UK US

11. comparing countries research performance International rankings still show a huge lead for UK and US universities 2006 2007 Ukraine Hungary Czech Republic Spain United Kingdom United States

12. comparing countries research performance Ukraine share of articles indexed on Scopus has declined to 0.34 % while neighbours share has grown, a trend shared by UK and US Average share of articles published worldwide Article output market shares derived from The UK and US contribute 32.3% of world articles but representing only 5.5% of the world population

13. comparing countries research performance The quality of your shoes Source: www.basf.com

14. comparing countries research performance To win in R&D, Elsevier provides the best equipment

15. comparing countries research performance Electronic access to large volumes of content has significant influenceon the article output growth of countries worldwide

16. comparing countries research performance The rapidly increasing usage of SD further explains the sharp increasein # of articles published Meant for whitepaper

17. comparing countries research performance The rapidly increasing usage of SD further explains the sharp increasein # of articles published

18. comparing countries research performance Developing countries have a larger benefit from electronic access tohigh quality content than developed countries • Historically UK has large access-levels to content, making the transition from paper to electronic small in terms of additional availability • In Poland the transition from paper to electronic content opened up access to a much larger volume of content • In China the amount of content available before the launch of SD was insignificant compared to the amount available today Low development countries 4.5x faster growth Access growth accelerator 2.3x faster growth High development countries 1.9x faster growth

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