Discovery to Innovation

Jack O’Toole j.otoole@elsevier.com Vice President of Sales

Engineering Information Inc.

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Jack O’TooleEI Vice President of Sales

CONCERTNovember Taipei, Taiwan

DISCOVERY TO INNOVATIONINNOVATION

AgendaAgenda

• Tools for Your Innovation• Essential Content Sources• Thesaurus• What is ChemVillage ?• Handbooks• Engineering Innovation – Backfile from 1884• Government Documents and Reports• About eBooks• Questions

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CompendexCompendex

INSPECINSPEC

NTISNTIS

Link to Over 3000

Engineering

E-Journals

Library Library HoldingHolding

Link to Full Text Options

PatentsInformationStandards

200 + CRC

Hand

Books

Web SiteSCIRUS

NEWSNEWS

REFEREXREFEREX

ToolsTools for Your Innovationfor Your Innovation

• Engineering Village 2 is Ei’s interface for Engineering & Technical Resources

• Compendex & INSPEC & NTIS• CRC Press Handbooks• Referex• Patents, US and European• Standards• Scirus - web search interface• Links to full-text journals• Document Delivery from Linda Hall Library

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Essential Content Source Essential Content Source -- CompendexCompendex

• Comprehensive, interdisciplinary database for engineering• All fields of engineering• 5000 Journals• 1500 Conference Reports / Proceedings• 8 million+ records• From 1970+• Weekly updates• Backfile available - 1884

CompendexCompendex Subject CoverageSubject Coverage

Civil Engineering15%

Mining Engineering12%

MechanicalEngineering

12%

ElectricalEngineering

35%

ChemicalEngineering

15%

GeneralEngineering

11%

Mechanical Engineering Breakdown

– Aerospace Engineering

– Automotive Engineering

– Fluid flow: Hydraulics, Pneumatics and Vacuum

– Heat and Thermodynamics

– Materials Handling

– Mechanical Engineering General

– Mechanical Engineering Plant and Power

– Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

– Nuclear Technology

– Railroad Engineering

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Essential Content Source Essential Content Source -- INSPECINSPEC

• Leading international database covering Physics, Electronics, Computing and IT

• 3500 Journals

• 1500 Conference Proceedings

• 7 million+ records

• from 1969+

• Weekly updates

INSPEC DatabaseINSPEC Database

• Bibliographic Database for Science & Engineering - Physics- Electrical & Electronics Engineering- Computing & Control Engineering- Information Technology

• Wide range of cross-disciplinary topics• Journals, Conferences and Other Documents• Global Coverage• International Recognition for High Quality

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Source DocumentsSource Documents

ConferenceArticles16.8%

Journals 72.6%

Conference in Journal 8.5%

Other 2.1%

INSPEC Database SubjectsINSPEC Database Subjects

BElectrical

Engineering&

Electronics

CComputing&

Control

D InformationTechnology

APhysics 4.3 million4.3 million 2.5 million2.5 million

1.9 million1.9 million

57,00057,000

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Searching Compendex & INSPEC

• Broadest possible range of topics within scientific, applied science, engineering and technical disciplines

• 14 million records, from 1969+• Up to date information every week• International journal coverage• Thesaurus terms, helping end-users to explore more

RecordsRecords

• Bibliographic information• 200-300 word abstract• Keywords highlighted in RED• Ei controlled terms - thesaurus terms• Full-text links via Cross Ref, Science Direct etc ...• Links to local library holdings, catalogue• Document delivery link

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Record viewRecord view

Link to Science DirectLink to Science Direct

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Link to Science DirectLink to Science Direct

EiEi ThesaurusThesaurus

• New unique thesaurus for Compendex and INSPEC• Search and browse terms• View and select within hierarchy, broader, narrower

and related terms• Transfer to search database

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EiEi ThesaurusThesaurus

The next generation in research deliveryThe next generation in research delivery-- BackfileBackfile from 1884from 1884

• File Years 1884-1969• 1.8 Million Records• One Time Purchase

No matter how advanced science becomes, we will always need to acknowledge its foundations. The innovations of tomorrow will be built from the inspiration of the past. A definitive historical record provides a concrete starting point, and the perspective required to fuel progress.

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Government Documents and Reports Government Documents and Reports --NTISNTIS

• National Technical Information Service• Approximately 2M Records• Back File to 1964• Controlled Vocabulary• Federated Search• Can Search the Big Three Simultaneously

(Village 2/Compendex, INSPEC, NTIS)

About About eBookseBooks

REFEREX

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eBookeBook BackgroundBackground• The first electronic book was created in the

early 1970’s– Text only and housed on mainframes

• Electronic books would ‘wait’ over 20 years until the technology could better sustain commercial ebooks

• Around 2000ish, commercial ebookproducts picked up steam in the STM market

• Today, significant S&T players include NetLibrary, Knovel, McGraw-Hill, CRC Press, Pearson (Safari)

Books are not journals!Books are not journals!

• Different commercial models in print– Subscription vs. one off

• Different format– Journals highly structured

• Different content– New discovery vs. established reference– Peer review vs. expertise

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So what is it?So what is it?

Referex : Ref·ur·eks

• Referex Engineering aims to be the leading electronic reference productoffering the broadest and deepest available coverage of engineering reference

Turn to Turn to EiEi• Engineering Village 2 is the leading

discovery platform for the engineering community.– Offering a flagship databases Compendex,

Inspec, netBase etc.• Strategy for growth calls for active

‘acquisition’ of engineering content to support research and information needs– Growth through up-sell

• History of ebook success – CRC netBASE product line

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The basicsThe basics

• Referex Engineering aims to be the leading electronic reference collection in engineering with unparalleled breadth and depth

• Fully utilizes search technology from market leading discovery platform, Engineering Village 2

• Comprised of over 350 reference titles in 3 core collections

3 3 ReferexReferex Engineering CollectionsEngineering Collections

• Each collections is comprised of 100+ handbooks, monographs and professional reference texts– Mechanical and Materials– Electronic and Electrical– Chemical Petrochemical and Process

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Approach to PublishingApproach to Publishing

Our books provide engineers in practice, training and education with the information they need to succeed.

A few broad, general references (“Standard Handbooks…”) complemented by focused titles that drill down into more detailed knowledge.

• By Engineers for Engineers• Demystifying Technology series ™• Embedded Technology series™• Rules of Thumb series

Broad, high-level view

In the trenches…

Approach to PublishingApproach to Publishing

• Our Books provide breadth & depth, for engineers in the trenches

• Provide training materials to undergraduate and graduate engineering students, including at the vocational and technicianlevels

• Enable problem-solving, lifetime learning and continuing professional development by supplying accessible, current, and required resources for professionals.

• Focus on compliance and qualification-driven content where possible (c.f. legal/regulatory/certification/qualification issues)

• Deliver collected wisdom in current and cutting-edge technologies in “focused” handbook and reference book form

• Innovate all the above and combine electronic, database, e-learning, eBook, or other applicable forms as appropriate.

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……which means thatwhich means that……The book content comprising Referex is of

superior quality, timeliness and focus.It offers vertical depth of coverage, concentrated

in the 3 collection areas, which is unrivalled in competing products

Within the 3 collections there is breadth of content to satisfy wide-ranging search needs.

Complementary to 30,000ft, broad viewpoint content offered by CRC Press/EngNetBaseProduct.

Key Publishing ClustersKey Publishing ClustersOur strengths, from which we have drawn

content into the Referex collections, are in the following:

• Electrical Engineering (see detail)• Mechanical Engineering• Materials & Design• Industrial Engineering• Health & Safety• Chemical/Process Engineering• Petroleum Engineering• Environmental Engineering & Energy• Biomedical Engineering

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EE field detailEE field detail

• Electronics and signal processing: analog, digital & mixed-signal design, DSP, video/image processing

• Telecommunications: RF, wireless, optical, broadband, satellite

• Embedded systems: design, programming and applications, embedded internet, microcontroller applications

• Computer engineering / systems: digital video/audio design, interfacing, high-speed networking, storage technology & optical computer hardware

• Optical Engineering; optics & laser devices• Instrumentation and control, internet-based control systems• Electrical power engineering: renewables, power electronics,

power systems, control

Publishing StrategyPublishing StrategyEngineering growth markets –

information in most demand…

• Communications Engineering (Wireless, RF, signal and image processing, networking and telecommunications, data, video and voice systems)

• Embedded Systems/Computer Engineering (microprocessor systems for communications, automation, internetworking, interfacing, data acquisition and control etc.)

• Energy & Environmental Engineering (from petroleum/fossil fuels with the GPP imprint to the future of sustainable energy –wind, fuel cell etc. – and environmental impact/clean up)

• Materials/Bio-Engineering (some of the most exciting, and best funded practical engineering development going on is in theintersection of engineering disciplines with materials, biology, and computing.)

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Collection fit with IndustryCollection fit with IndustryWhere the collections are focused, and what sectors will be most targetable:

•Petrochemical/Process Engineering – Oil,gas,refining, energy and pipeline companies. Chemical, process, plastics, food, pharmaceutical and other bulk solids manufacturing companies.

•Mechanical/Materials Engineering – automotive, aerospace, marine, product design, advanced materials, polymer and plastics, electronics manufacturing companies, bearings, lubrication as well as sealants and adhesives businesses.

•Electrical Engineering – communications, networking, consumer electronics, hardware design, computer engineering, chip design and manufacturing companies, power supply, power generation and battery design and mfg.

Functionality Functionality –– SearchingSearching

eBooks search tab – Select collections– Keyword search of full text– Metadata search (ISBN, Title, Author,

Publisher)– Collection browse of book titles– Subject browse of book titles

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Chem Village

ChemVillageChemVillage

• Launched in January 2002

• A Web-based information delivery service offering a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals, and researchers working in chemistry and chemical engineering

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ChemVillageChemVillage• Standard Offering

– Databases (hosted at Ei; included in standard offering)• Chimica• Beilstein Abstracts• Chemical Business Newsbase

– Patent Databases• USPTO• esp@cenet

– SCIRUS

ChemVillageChemVillage

• CRC Press Products (add-on pricing)– CHEMnetBASE

• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics• Combined Chemical Dictionary• Polymers: a property database• Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds

– Properties of Organic Compounds– ENVIROnetBASE

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CRC PressHandbooks

CRC Press HandbooksCRC Press Handbooks

• ENGnetBASE full-text handbooks• Available online via EV2• Searchable PDF full-texts• 200+ titles• www.engnetbase.com

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ENGnetBASEENGnetBASE subjectssubjects• Aerospace Engineering • Biomedical Engineering • Ceramics & Glasses • Chemical Engineering • Circuits & Devices • Civil Engineering (General) • Composite Materials • Computer Engineering • Construction Engineering • Digital Signal Processing • Electrical Engineering (General) • Electrical Engineering Communications • Electronic Packaging • Electronics • Energy Engineering • Engineering (General) • Engineering Management • Environmental Engineering • Fire Science • Fluid Dynamics• Geotechnical Engineering• Vibrations

•Heat Transfer •Image Processing •Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing •Intelligent Systems •Lasers & Optical Engineering •Material Science •Mechanical Engineering (General) •MEMS •Metals & Alloys •Microelectronics •Microwaves & Electromagnetics•Nanoscience/Nanotechnology •Operations Research •Plant Engineering •Power Electronics •Power Engineering •Structural Engineering •Systems & Controls •Systems Engineering •Thermodynamics •Transportation Engineering •Tribology

Other CRC handbooksOther CRC handbooks

• CHEMnetBASE• ENVIROnetBASE• MATHnetBASE• STATSnetBASE• FOODnetBASE• FORENSICnetBASE• POLYMERSnetBASE• ITKnowledgeBASE• InfoSECURITYnetBase

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CompendexCompendex

INSPECINSPEC

NTISNTIS

Link to Over 3000

Engineering

E-Journals

Library Library HoldingHolding

Link to Full Text Options

PatentsInformationStandards

200 + CRC

Hand

Books

Web SiteSCIRUS

NEWSNEWS

REFEREXREFEREX