New Content on Science Direct Open URL linking

New Content on Science. Direct Open. URL linking & Link. Finder Plus Annemarie Koot Joost Gerdes Inforum Prague 2004

Topics • New products overview – Backfiles – Books Series online – MRW online – Link. Finder. Plus & Open URL Linking 2

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

Added value of electronic full text • • 4 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 Science. Direct’s functionality, support and usage reports.

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 – – – • 5 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

The Lancet, Volume one, Issue one 6

The Lancet, Volume 1, Issue 1 on Science. Direct 7

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

SD and Backfiles in Perspective 8 million articles = 70 million pages = 35 million double sided sheets = 3. 8 KM 9

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

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

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

Book Series - Overview • • • 13 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

Elsevier Book Series on Science. Direct 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 14

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

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

Direkte Links 17

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

Online Reference Works 15 Titles Available Now: • • • • 19 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

Selection of a certain MRW 20

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

Results– 3 Articles in 2 different MRW’s 22

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

Direct entry in various Categories within a MRW 24

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

Open. URL linking & Link. Finder. Plus Presented by: Joost Gerdes Product Sales Manager Endeavor Information Systems

The problem to solve • • 27 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”)

The Open. URL solution: what it does • • 28 The Open. URL standard was developed to solve this so-called “appropriate copy problem” Using Open. URL 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)

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

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

Example: linking from EV 2 to Science. Direct 31

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Facts & Figures • • 34 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. Science. Direct, Embase. com and Engineering Village 2 are Open. URL compliant For other Open. URL compliant platforms go to http: //www. endinfosys. com/prods/lfp_resour ces. htm

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

Questions and Answers? ? Annemarie Koot Joost Gerdes