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Knovel Product Update Lodz 2010 updates. Barbara Dixee, Director of Academic Sales. Content Highlights of 2009. Deployed 3 new products Increased content production 33% over 2008
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Knovel Product Update Lodz 2010 updates Barbara Dixee, Director of Academic Sales
Content Highlights of 2009 • Deployed 3 new products • Increased content production 33% over 2008 • Increased interactive object production over 350% over 2008. Users will be able to leverage interactive graphs, tables – and live equations • Added more than 20 publishers and society partners • Formed Editorial Advisory Board and Reviewer System • Created Engineering Cases series
Twenty New Publishing Partners DEStech MIT Press
New Subject Areas Industrial Engineering & Operations Mgmt For Engineering leadership: Risk assessment, risk control, business process improvement For Engineers: Remediation in all aspects of project management. New Publishers: DesTech, Project Management Institute, AMACOM. Transportation Engineering Covers topics for planning, functional design, implementation of transportation systems and infrastructure Key Publishers: AASHTO, Transportation Research Board, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, Elsevier
New Subject Areas continued Nanotechnology • Focus: Information on nanomaterials, their properties data from the major publishers; “recipes” for fabrication and manufacturing techniques • Publishers: Wiley, Springer, Royal Society of Chemistry, Woodhead, World Scientific
Themes of 2009 Proactive content development • Proactive content additions and product development based on engineering expertise and real opinions from the trenches Industry-specific brand names engineers trust • Increased cache by adding societies and smaller industry-specific publishers Deeper content for existing collections • Many more green fields within our existing content collections. Deeper information about specific topics that users have questions about today
Content Growth & Selection Process • Editorial Advisory Board Industry experts and academic leaders work with us to develop content strategy and prioritize new opportunities • Subject Matter Expert Review Engineers in the field review content collections on an ongoing basis. Make recommendations based on the information needs in their work and their experience. We welcome recommendations from your faculty • Listening to Customers Knovel’s customer service is considered top notch
Engineering Cases • New series designed to add another facet – real user experience – to referential content • Format: Case studies which describe innovative solutions for usual or unusual projects • Value-add to your subscription (eg, no additional cost) • Benefits • SEO, additional hits to Knovel, freely available, published monthly • Digestible content that gives additional context to lectures • Topics • Mechanical Engineering • Product Lifecycle Management • Sustainable Engineering • Chemical Engineering
What is ASM International? • Society dedicated to serving those working in materials science and engineering professions • 36,000 members worldwide with six societies under ASM umbrella • Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society • Heat Treating Society • International Metallographic Society • Thermal Spray Society • International Organization on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies • Society of Carbide and Tool Engineers • Publisher of materials information from structural to nanolevel including renown handbooks, datasets, and atlases. The ASM Handbooks are recognized as the Bible in materials science • Broad appeal for their content – anyone working in materials
ASM Materials Collection • Must-have content from the leading materials society, paired with Knovel’s powerful search and data analytical tools • Content is a great addition to the existing collection of materials information on Knovel. Top societies and publishers like NACE, ASTM and the Battelle Memorial Institute • ASM Premium Content is the exclusive licensee of this premium content. ASM content is not included within any of the ebook aggregators and it is not within the publisher-owned products like CRCnetBase or McGraw-Hill’s AccessEngineering. • Launch: Mid-July
2009 Highlights Over 90% renewals Knovel User Registration: ~30,000 registered since October Product Development fueled by Design Partner Program New User Experience Knovel Lab My Knovel, Admin Toolkit 2010 Opportunities Search Enhancing User Registration Performance MARC Records available to everyone – look for announcements soon Shibboleth Product Highlights 2009 and Opportunities 2010
To this Knovel … November 2009 MY KNOVEL • My Bookshelf: save frequently used titles and organize them into folders you create • My Saved Content: save and organize content into the folders you create • My Saved Searches: save search queries and re-execute with just one click • My Web Clips (in Knovel Lab)
2010, Short-term activities • Direct Export to Bibliographic Management Tools • Clip to Knovel
Design Partners Observed 20 What our engineering users care about : Fast[er] access to results Simple navigation Don’t give me zero results More types of content - standards, regulations Make interactive content more prominent Show me what I have; don’t tease me with entitlements I can’t have Let me use Knovel from anywhere Make My Knovel portable Help me find and connect to like-minded users to collaborate with BASED ON USER DATA
We Listened Our focus has been redirected in the next 12 months: • faster search • integration into your knowledge repository [Sharepoint] • integration into your federated search • higher quality search results • no zero results • better organization of search results [more prominent interactive tools, materials data, tables etc] • better discoverability [search Google = get Knovel results] • mobile device access
Facets Show me what I can and cannot access
Replace Adobe Reader; keeping users in the Web = faster, more flexible controls
Thank you! Diana Bittern dbittern@knovel.com