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2. Agenda ScienceDirect • Brief Background • Using Advanced/Expert search • New features • eBooks • Usage

3. Niels Bohr Physics Louis Pasteur(Chemistry) Alexander Fleming Medicine Albert Einstein Physics George F. Smoot Physics John C. Mather Physics Roger D. Kornberg Chemistry Craig C Mello Medicine Elsevier has a long heritage of publishing renowned works by leading authors and prize winners Long Heritage of Publishing Leading Books Galileo published his “Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intoro a due nuoue scienze” — his last work — with Elzevir despite being banned by the Inquisition and is recognized as the first important work of modern physics The Publishing House of Elzevir was first established in 1580 by Lowys ElzevirJacobus George Robbers established the modern Elsevier Company in 1880 The publication of the book, edited by Sir Alexander Fleming, about a revolutionary new antibiotic, “Penicillin: Its Practical Application” in 1946` The publication of “Gray’s Anatomy” in 1858 was a landmark for the study of the human anatomy and in many ways for the whole of medicine Nobel Prize winners published with Elsevier

4. Elsevier has a global reach, working with leading institutions and researchers to meet their different content needs Global partner… More than 7,000 employees working at 77 offices in 24 countries… …serving over 30 million scientists, students, health and information professionals …to leading institutions Elsevier understands and meets the content needs of leading academic, government and commercial institutions

5. Elsevier articles are the most used and most cited resources driving leading research Elsevier’s journals are the world’s largest resource… Share of Articles Share of Citations Contribution to Research Elsevier Elsevier Others Others Wiley - Blackwell Wiley - Blackwell University press Springer University press Learned Societies Springer WK WK Learned Societies T&F T&F … and are the most used and cited by the scientific community

6. Handbooks eBooks Reference Works Book Series 1995 - present Backfiles pre 1995 Content on ScienceDirect today ~4,000 by 2008 7 series 51 titles 163 titles ~4.7 million articles 2000 journals ~4 million articles

7. Benefits of e-books on ScienceDirect • Same familiar platform with integrated book and journal searching • Fair use policy (no Digital Rights Management) • No more lost or damaged copies, saving shelf space • Multimedia possibilities • Linking and searching between volumes and between other content types

8. Available Books on ScienceDirect Books on ScienceDirect Handbooks Book Series Reference Works eBooks (new for 2007!) Regularly updated as research work is cutting edge. Subject packages available: Chemistry, Life Science, Business/Econ, Social Sciences, Psychology Other individual titles available including Methods in Enzymology A compendium of definitive summaries, references and glossaries that act as an introduction to a subject area E.g. Encyclopaedias or Comprehensive Reference Works Nearly all of Elsevier’s academic book titles are included like: Academic and professional reference books, Text reference books, Closed Handbook Series, Closed Book Series and Monographs Are part of an ongoing series. 7 series available Volume one to current issue Commissioning and invitation only 15 year life cycle

9. Wide range of subject areas – Large number of titles Covering 18 subject areas and over 4100 titles

10. 85 Elsevier offers better eBooks with leading imprints and authors eBooks: Renowned Imprints… by superior authors No. of documents published per author Academic Press Butterworth-Heinemann (business, technology) Syngress and Digital Press (computing) Elsevier Science Gulf Professional Publishing (petroleum / petrochemical processing) Morgan Kaufmann (computer science) Newnes (electrical / electronic engineering) North-Holland (mathematics) Pergamon Elsevier authors Publish More Elsevier eBooks Major Publisher No. of citations per author Elsevier authors are Cited More Elsevier eBooks Major Publisher Average author H-index Elsevier authors have Higher H-index Elsevier eBooks Major Publisher

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16. FAST Implementation • ScienceDirect has implemented the highly acclaimed FAST Enterprise Search Platform. • This new search engine, which is powerful, quick and flexible, was recently voted ‘Top Search and Retrieval Technology’ in Information Today’s first People’s Choice Awards.

17. Search Engine FAST Command language and syntax will change: • The connector AND is automatically inserted between terms • Multiple wildcards may be used in the same word • Accents will be recognized • FAST has it’s own dictionaries that offers alternatives to possible typos • If less than 20 results are found, the system offers alternative spellings

18. Spell Checker Quick Search Results 18 Articles Found Search Form

19. Synonyms and Alternative Spellings • English and American spellings • behaviour and behavior, flavour and flavor, colour and color • Plurals • horse and horses, woman and women, case and cases • Synonyms • Aspirin will also search acetylsalicylic acid

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21. Graphical Abstracts Standalone

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26. Article Page -- Today

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29. Redesign Reference Preview Within the Article - Mouse-over on the references within the HTML article will display a preview of the reference including links

30. Quick Search: Word Wheel

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34. PDF downloader Custom Naming Download Progress Download Summary & PPV Option

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43. Advanced Search

44. Advanced Search: wild cards + connector

45. Example: Advanced Search: wild cards + connector

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47. Saving a Search

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50. Hea*t: Finds both heart and heat {heart attack} : Find exact search Heart pre/2 attack: Find articles with 2,1 or 0 words between heart THEN attack hea?t Finds heart, but not heat ‘’’’heart attack’’’’: Find single, plurals Heart w/2 attack: Find articles with 2,1 or o words between heart attack or attack heart Tips on how to search