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SPIE Digital Library & eBooks Lund Online 2011 Paul Calow, Sales Director Burgundy Information Services Ltd (SPIE Distributor). What am I going to talk about?. Who is SPIE? The International Society for optics and Photonics.
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SPIE Digital Library & eBooks Lund Online 2011 Paul Calow, Sales Director Burgundy Information Services Ltd (SPIE Distributor)
Who is SPIE?The International Society for optics and Photonics • A not–for–profit international society—501c3 charity founded in 1955 • scientific conferences, • continuing education programs, • publications • patent precedent • career and professional growth activities • >190,000 constituents from 138 countries, 15,000 members • Supports 150 student chapters worldwide • Provides nearly US $2m annually in both dollars and in-kind support for scholarships, grants, and other education programs around the world
What is Optics and Photonics? Photonics World Market, Forecast
What is the SPIE Digital Library? • World’s largest collection of scientific and technical research in optics and photonics • >7,000 volumes of SPIE conference proceedings • x8 SPIE scholarly journals • >18,000 new papers published each year • Full coverage from 1990 – present • Course packs, Walk-in users and ILL • Counter 3 Compliant statistics • Archived via Portico • Indexed in Scopus, Compendex, Inspec, Google Scholar, Scitopia, Chem Abstracts etc. • Data-Mining allowed so long as use conforms to the terms of the standard license • Supply DL metadata to Summon/Primo/Ebsco Discovery Service Interdisciplinary content: Micro/Nanotechnology Sensor technologies Biomedical optics Defense and security Communications Imaging Lighting and Energy Astronomy
SPIE eBook Collection • Package Only. No single titles. • Subscription or one-time purchase. • PDF files that are downloaded at the chapter level. • Same platform as the rest of the Digital Library. • No print/copy restrictions. • Unlimited simultaneous user access. • Can be used on pdf compatible e-readers. • Download complete book to local server (purchase only) • eBooks have the same rules for ILL as Digital Library. • eBooks available before print. • Free Marc Records (inc. ToCs) • eBooks can be integrated into federated search systems >140 eBooks including… SPIE Press Monographs Authoritative reference books, textbooks, and handbooks SPIE Tutorial Texts Stand alone tutorials covering fundamental and emerging topics SPIE Field Guides Present information that students and practicing engineers and scientists need in a concise format.
What’s new for 2011? • New milestone reached (+300,000 technical papers) • Journal of Photonics for Energy (Open Access) • AIP/Scitation Platform upgrade • Improved searching • Abstract page redesign • Increased visibility of content • eBook collection growing (at least 15 new titles in 2011) • Top 10 Downloads lists for 13 different technical areas • Online Training now available • Global price freeze for 2011 (following 10% roll back in 2010) • SPIE now supports NIH mandate (Journal of Biomedical Optics)
New BIBSAM agreement in 2011 • Successful trial with good usage • Additional free access period during negotiations • Global 10% price roll-back in 2010 • Price freeze in 2011 • Fixed pricing until 2014 (0% increase) • New banding based on relevant FTE (Physics & Engineering only) • New Tier 5 price for smaller institutions • Opt-out clause • Additional discounts as number of participants increases • Optional ebook discounts • Flexibility with BIBSAM license and terms Consortium Participants 2011: Chalmers University of Technology (Digital Library) Linköping University (Digital Library) Lulea University of Technology (Digital Library) Mid Sweden University (Digital Library) Royal Institute of Technology - KTH (Digital Library) Swedish Defense Research Agency - FOI (Digital Library) Swedish Patent and Registration Office (Digital Library) Uppsala University (Digital Library) Other Swedish subscribers include: Lund Observatory (Digital Library) Blekinge Institute of Technology (ebooks only)
Useful Links Digital Library – Starting point for searching and browsing http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ Quick Start Guide – Online Tutorials; Searching, Browsing, Alerts, Citing http://spie.org/x34642.xml Subscriber Toolkit- Order Promotional Material, Schedule Training, FAQ’s for New Subscribers, Site Branding http://dlinfo.org/toolkit.aspx eBook Title List – Titles, Subject Groupings, No. of Pages, ISBN’s etc. http://spie.org/Documents/Publications/eBook-Titles.pdf Top 10 Downloads Lists - Updated monthly, Ranked by sub-discipline http://spie.org/x34650.xml Marc Records – Individual records and complete collection .mrc file http://spie.org/x37155.xml
Questions? Comments? Paul Calow Sales Director, Burgundy Information Services Ltd (SPIE Distributor) paul@burgundyservices.com
What do our customers say? “We find great value in the Digital Library’s multidisciplinary nature.” Carol Hoover, Librarian, Los Alamos National Laboratory “With the Digital Library, I don’t have to do all the R&D myself. I can go and download a great deal of convenient information. The archival coverage is absolutely essential.” Harry Levinson, Manager of Strategic Lithography Technology & Sr. Fellow, Global Foundries “The depth and breadth of the SPIE Digital Library makes it useful for a lot of different research areas.” Linette Koren, Engineering Librarian, Rochester Institute of Technology
What do our customers say? “Putting out papers as the become available is very good. We don’t have to wait until they are published online.” Sharon Mehl, Senior Librarian, Applied Materials Inc “The SPIE Digital Library broad enough to be useful; it covers a lot of different disciplines.” Bob Heyer-Gray, Librarian, University of California (Davis) “Our researchers really value the Digital Library for its content and extensive coverage.” Amy C. Smith, Senior Technical Librarian, Raytheon Company