Enhancing Academic Research Resources: ScienceDirect Overview

1. New Content on ScienceDirectOpenURL linking & LinkFinderPlus InforumPrague 2004 Annemarie Koot Joost Gerdes

2. Topics • New products overview • Backfiles • Books Series online • MRW online • LinkFinderPlus & Open URL Linking

3. ScienceDirect - Full-Text Content • Journals • Current issues • Access to 4 years backwards from year of first subscription • Building an archive for subscribed titles • Backfiles • Growing program of back issues to Volume 1, issue 1 • Book Series • Reference Works

4. Added value of electronic full text • 24 hours availability • Multiple-users, campus-wide access • No need for multiple copies, shelving space and administration savings • Cross-referencing • Linking to other types of contents in SD • Linking to other publishers’ contents via Cross-Ref • ScienceDirect’s functionality, support and usage reports.

5. Backfiles Project • Initiative to digitise all Elsevier owned journals from 1994 back to volume 1 number 1 • Compiled and sold as a complete subject package • Started in 2001 • 6 months sourcing and shipping to Manila • 9 months inventarisation and database creation • 1.5 years compilation of titles per package • 3 years scanning and processing • 8 Core project team members – 1000 workers in Manila • Stakeholders - ES publishing company and the scientific community • Result = tripling of the SD database

6. The Lancet, Volume one, Issue one

7. The Lancet, Volume 1, Issue 1 on ScienceDirect

8. Four Sea Containers & Two Air Containers Millions of pages $40 million just for scanning

9. SD and Backfiles in Perspective 8 million articles = 70 million pages = 35 million double sided sheets = 3.8 KM

10. Backfiles - Usage of historical information • 16% of the print articles used is older then 5 years Source: King et al. 1998.

11. Collections coming soon: Medicine and Dentistry (2004) Nursing and Health Professions (2004) Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine (2004) Cell Press (2004) Harcourt Health Science Backfiles - Packages

12. Backfiles Package Chemistry Backfiles PackageSocial Science Backfiles Package Engineering Other Backfiles Packages Subject Collection Chemistry Subject Collection Social Sciences Subject Collection Engineering 18 other Subject Collections > 1730 Journal Titles Licensing models for journals on ScienceDirect Volume 1 Issue 1 Backfiles 1995 1996 1997 Journal Backfiles 1998 1999 Freedom Collection 2000 2001 Subject Collections SDOL License Agreement 2002 2003 Web Editions Now Print Subscriptions

13. Book Series - Overview • Contain review articles and essays on current research in a defined area, or a comprehensive overview of a particular topic • Typically graduate student through researcher are end-user candidates • Online Series publish regularly, at least one volume per year • Highly cited by bibliographic databases • Potentially high usage per article

14. Elsevier Book Series on ScienceDirect Online Book Series • First 100 Book Series were launched in 2004: • Chemistry Package – 12 titles • Business, Management & Economics Package – 54 titles • Life Sciences Package – 33 titles • Methods in Enzymology Package –1 title • In 2005 about 200 book series will be available • License give access to current year and 4 years back • Archiving rights like journals *Books series are not available individually, only in the composed pre-configured packages

15. How does the Product function? Book Series on ScienceDirect are VERY similar to online journals: • Reference linking & CrossRef functionality • Book Series included in All Sources search, Quick Search, etc. • Enabled with New Volume/Issue alerts • Includes Cited by

16. Certain “book serials” can be selected (Package) Book serials within a package -direct selection

17. Direkte Links

18. MAJOR REFERENCE WORK Links to other content Bibliographic Databases Journal Article MRW: The StartingPointfor Research Tertiary literature Primary literature Secondary literature

19. Online Reference Works 15 Titles Available Now: • Comprehensive Clinical Psychology • Comprehensive Composite Materials • Comprehensive Structural Integrity • Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences • Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition • Encyclopedia of Cancer • Encyclopedia of Genetics • Encyclopedia of Hormones • Encyclopedia of the Human Brain • Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology • Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences • Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences • Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy • Encyclopedia of Separation Science • International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

20. Selection of a certain MRW

21. Serach for Osteoporosis “osteop!” In all available MRW’s

22. Results– 3 Articles in 2 different MRW’s

23. Cross References, References • -- seamless linking to fulltext, • Databases, CrossRef” • A very quick overview of the • topis itself and related themes

24. Direct entry in various Categories within a MRW

25. Online Reference Works - Features • Browsing a variety of indexes depending on type of reference work (“encyclopedia” or “comprehensive”) and its structure • Browsing and searching the subject index • Searching at basic or advanced levels across all or part of a work • Extensive linking internally and to external primary-source material (including via CrossRef)

26. OpenURL linking & LinkFinderPlus Presented by: Joost Gerdes Product Sales Manager Endeavor Information Systems

27. The problem to solve • Libraries provide access to lots of unconnected content platforms • Users don’t want to switch platforms and type in metadata to find full text, but link to it directly from where they found it • Librarians want all of their content to be used to prevent unnecessary document delivery or interlibrary loan and save time and money • Needed: an efficient way of finding the location of the article the user has access to (the “appropriate copy”)

28. The OpenURL solution: what it does • The OpenURL standard was developed to solve this so-called “appropriate copy problem” • Using OpenURL linking will direct the user to the location of the copy of the article that is accessible for that user, stored locally or on line (i.e. the appropriate copy for that user)

29. Ref. Link to Lancet Science Direct The Lancet.com OpenURL containing metadata The OpenURL solution: basics • At the core is a tailored list of journals with their locations and date range (the “knowledge base”) … Lab. Econ. – www.sciencedir… Lancet – www.sciencedirect.co. Lancet – sciserv.somewhere.nl Lancet – www.thelancet.com Lingua – www.sciencedirect… Lithos – www.sciencedirect… …

30. The OpenURL solution: basics • List is different for every library • The list is part of a software application called a Link Resolver • Elsevier’s OpenURL link resolver is LinkFinderPlus, on site or hosted

31. Example: linking from EV2 to ScienceDirect

34. Facts & Figures • Pre-populated knowledge base: - 22,000+ target journals- 1700+ target sites (journal platforms) • Available soon: “Extended services”: links to library OPACs, Internet search engines etc. • ScienceDirect, Embase.com and Engineering Village 2 are OpenURL compliant • For other OpenURL compliant platforms go to http://www.endinfosys.com/prods/lfp_resources.htm

35. LinkFinderPlus: Summary • LinkFinderPlus offers users one-click access to all full text articles available to them • Avoiding unnecessary document delivery or inter-library loan saves time and money • Competitive pricing

36. Questions and Answers?? Annemarie Koot Joost Gerdes