karger Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent

1. 120 Years Publishers www.karger.com Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent

2. Karger : 120 Years, Connecting the World of Biomedical Science 120 YEARS S.Karger AG, founded by Samuel Karger in 1890 in Berlin • He devised “a plan to gather a collection of compendia which would represent the entire field of medicine in single compartments” and “Turning Medical Progress into Print” • The first compendium, the Geburtshulfliche Vademecum, was published in 1890; in 1893, Karger published its first periodical, Dermatologische Xeischirift, which still appears today under the English title Dermatology. 2 / May 2010 www.karger.com

3. Karger : 120 Years, Connecting the World of Biomedical Science • Based in Switzerland, family owned and independent • Run by the fourth generation Heinz Karger Thomas Karger Steven Karger Gabriella Karger The fourth generation 2 / May 2010 www.karger.com

4. Karger : 120 Years, Connecting the World of Biomedical Science The newly extended head office of Karger Publishers Earlier site 2 / May 2010 www.karger.com

5. Karger : 120 Years, Connecting the World of Biomedical Science Long History : One Focus S.Karger Publishers since 1890 One Focus - Biomedicine • The company employs more than 200 people at the Basel headquarters and has a worldwide network of branch offices and distribution Centers • produces close to 80 scientific journals and about 150 serial and non-serial book titles and supplement or themed journal issues per year, primarily in English. • All journals and most of the books are also available in electronic format, published online first. From Turning Medical Progress into Print to Connecting the World of Biomedical Science 2 / May 2010 www.karger.com

6. Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent www.karger.com At the forefront of electronic publishing – an established online presence • Over a decade of experience connecting clients electronically to high-quality medical content (complete journal and book program since 1998) • Over a century of biomedical journal articles available through Karger’s digital archives 2 / May 2010 www.karger.com

7. Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent www.karger.com Quick access to Karger’s complete book and journal collections and all the information you need in focus: a free selection of original research, reviews and more on the most critical current topics in medicine Karger‘s Case Reports Journals are a series of free, Open Access journals Karger Gazette is a free, annual, newspaper-style publication featuring articles that are both fascinating and important 3 / May 2010 www.karger.com

8. Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent www.karger.comCustomized Content Packages for Academic Users Karger Complete Online Journals Karger eBooks Collection Karger Journal Archive Collection Demand driven packages designed and priced to fit your information requirements and budgetary needs 22 / May 2010 www.karger.com

9. Easy Access to Online Research • Access and Access Control • Online Content and Special Features • How-to-use Tutorial (coming soon) 4 / May 2010 www.karger.com

10. Easy Access to Online Research • Access and Access Control • Via IP authentication, proxy server or Shibboleth • - A single sign-on identification and authentication tool • Enables your clients to access library resources easily and securely from any PC • Karger implements this service upon request (where available), providing technical support to simplify access management for your online subscriptions Federation Home Organization 5 / May 2010 www.karger.com

11. Easy Access to Online Research • Access and Access Control • One login to journals, books, and archived content • Unlimited multiple-user access • Perpetual access to purchased content • Help Desk: Friendly, accessible and efficient • Library Administrator’s Login (ID + PW) for statistics and holdings overview Library Branding SalutationLogo 5 / May 2010 www.karger.com

12. Easy Access to Online Research Access and Access Control: Your Subscriptions Customizable features accessible from every page for every user SalutationLogo Library Branding Library Branding SalutationLogo 6 / May 2010 www.karger.com

13. Online Content: Journals Library Branding • Journal Home • Personalized Welcome with your library’s logo on every page • Issue overview (online first, current, recent and archive) • Link to societies (if applicable) • Library Recommendation form • RSS Feeds and E-mail Alerts for each journal and new book release • Free online sample issue for every journal • Top 10 articles SalutationLogo Pulldown List for Archived Content (pre-1997) 8 / May 2010 www.karger.com

14. Online Content: Journals • Online Full Text • PDF and HMTL full text, Free Abstracts Received: July 14, 2009 Accepted: January 11, 2010 Published online: April 8, 2010 Every article has its own ahead-of-print publication date stamp 6 / May 2010 www.karger.com

15. Online Content: Journals Supplementary Material for Online Users (when applicable) 10 / May 2010 www.karger.com

16. Online Content and Special Features • Online Full Text and Special Features • Article References linked to source material located on the Web 11 / May 2010 www.karger.com

17. Online Book Content Access to Content of all Serial & Non-serial Books 12 / May 2010 www.karger.com

18. Online Content and Special Features • Search • Search per issue, title or complete contents • Karger uses the Google Search Appliance for most precise search results 13 / May 2010 www.karger.com

19. Joining with Key Partners for Maximum Discoverability • Medline/PubMed, Google etc. • Data Distributed to More than 40 ePartners • Karger Publications Discoverable At All Levels 14 / May 2010 www.karger.com

20. Key Partners for Maximum Discoverability Medline/PubMed • Nearly all Karger journals and most books series listed in Medline/PubMed • Full Text link to Karger and LinkOut functionality 15 / May 2010 www.karger.com

21. Key Partners for Maximum Discoverability • Google, Google Scholar, Google Book Search • Google harvests data directly from Karger • Karger sends fully tagged metadata for deep indexing in Google Karger content can also be found in Yahoo and other search engines 16 / May 2010 www.karger.com

22. Key Partners for Maximum Discoverability • Data Distributed to More than 40 A&I databases, Search Services • Metadata shipped to all major Abstracting and Indexing databases: • Medline, CAS, Current Contents, Reference Update, Scopus, Biological Abstracts, EMBASE/Excerpta, Medica, Science Citations Index and more … 17 / May 2010 www.karger.com

23. Key Partners for Maximum Discoverability Karger Publications Can Be Found At All Search Levels • Karger content is indexed by key partners and often syndicated to other online platforms such as medical or consumer databases – helping users find Karger throughout the Web 18 / May 2010 www.karger.com

24. Online Supportthat Goes Behind the Scenes • Offering Services to Add Value • Combining Top Industry Standards with Partnerships to Link Content 19 / May 2010 www.karger.com

25. Support that Goes Behind the Scenes • Statistics • COUNTER compliant • Karger interactive statistics 20 / May 2010 www.karger.com

26. Support that Goes Behind the Scenes • Offering Services to Add Value • Library records management: new releases downloads, titles registered in WorldCat for loading on OPAC • Metadata formats: MARC, ONIX, Excel, and Text • Dark Archive: in Cooperation with OCLC 21 / May 2010 www.karger.com

27. Support that Goes Behind the Scenes • Combining Top Industry Standards with Partnerships to Link Content • PubMed ID displayed at the article level with link to article in PubMed • DOI/CrossRef (Digital Object Identifier) at the article level • EndNote (Citation management download) 22 / May 2010 www.karger.com

28. Support that Goes Behind the Scenes Combing Top Industry Standards with Partnerships to Link Content SFX (ExLibris) link resolvers help clients access reference materials easily within the library system by identifying online or physical rights, and automatically linking to the source work. • All publications are OpenURL-supported 23 / May 2010 www.karger.com

29. Summary www.karger.com Your Connection to Scholarly Medical eContent Online Support that Goes Behind the Scenes Karger provides services to help ensure that libraries can provide top service to their clients, from records management to interactive statistics ePartnership with important industry databases and service providers such as PubMed, CrossRef and SFX/ ExLibris allow for maximum, easy linking to quality medical content Easy Access to Online Research Providing tools to give you and your clients access wherever you are Putting all the information you need at your fingertips in a smooth online environment at www.karger.com Joining with Partners for Maximum Discoverability Placement in Google and PubMed/ Medline makes Karger content highly discoverable Karger also distributes data to more than 40 key A&I databases 24 / May 2010 www.karger.com

30. Karger: 120 YEARS, Connecting the World of Biomedical Science • Karger HeadquartersS. Karger AGP.O BoxCH-4009 Basel (Switzerland)karger@karger.ch • Karger Regional Office (Malaysia) • South East Asia, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan • E-Mail: r.chew@karger.cn • Tel: +603 776 6803 • Hp: +6012 716 6803 • Contact: Raymond Chew 周邦喜 • www.karger.com 20 / May 2010 www.karger.com