The Springer eBook Collection….

1. Available on SpringerLink The Springer eBook Collection…. ….and…..New Products Cem Üzüm Sales Manger D/A/CH, Eastern Europe, Russia, North- and Central Asia Minsk, October 2010

2. Agenda • Introduction • E-Books • SpringerMaterials • SpringerImages • SpringerProtocols • Summary & Conclusions

3. What is an eBook? • Digital representation of printed material • Available in PDF and/or HTML, etc. • Can be fully indexed • Can be fully searchable (OPAC, Google, publisher platform, etc.) • Readable on any PC, eReader or PDA • Can have extra features, such as audio, video, etc. • Potentially unlimited amount of copies = users • eBook chapters are findable because of metadata!

4. PDF can be downloaded, saved, printed or put on an eReader This is a Springer eBook The bibliographic information The content

5. SpringerLink Fulltext Chapter Downloads 2007-2009 (in mio) eBook Usage In 2009 nearly 5 million chapter downloads by month!

6. eReaders – the future of reading?

7. SpringerLink eBooks are compatible with mobile readers

8. eBooks can be purchased in 12 annual Subject Collections

9. Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information What is SpringerMaterials? • SpringerMaterials is a new one-stop web platform. It contains a systematic & comprehensive database of selected and critically assessed physico chemical data. • Based on Landolt-Börnstein, the unique and top-quality data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. • It consists of 70,000 online documents, includes more than 120,000 figures, more than 1 million literature references and over 65,000 keywords. • SpringerMaterials will replace the previous Landolt-Börnstein product as of January 2010

10. Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information Figures • Landolt-Börnstein is a data collection equivalent to • >190,000 pages in 70,000 online documents (extracted from 380 printed volumes) • >120,000 figures • >1 Mio literature references • 65,000 keywords • >150,000 chemical substances • >72,000 element systems • >530,000 substance-property pairs • nearly 1,5 Mio synonyms

11. Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information For example: 190,000 pages = 380 LaBö Vols. = 23 m piled up Hammering Man in Frankfurt OR

12. Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information Subject areas covered by SpringerMaterials • Particles, Nucleiand Atoms • MoleculesandRadicals • Electronic Structureand Transport • Magnetism • Semiconductivity • Superconductivity • Crystallography • Thermodynamics • Multiphase Systems • Advanced Materials • Advanced Technologies • Astro- andGeophysics

13. Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information Number of PDF documents by subject area (shown in brackets)

14. Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information Who uses SpringerMaterials and Why? • Academic Institutions: Researchers • Corporations: Employees in R&D Departments • Find the expert knowledge needed to reliably design new materials • Find out which material offersthemostsuitableparametersfortheresearchproject • Evaluateandverify experimental data after concretemeasurementsandrefertoknown material parameters • Save time by not having to scan and evaluate existing literature on the research topic

15. Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information Who should buy SpringerMaterials • Academic institutions with research departments in material science, physics, chemistry, and engineering. • Corporate libraries in sectors such as: Chemical Companies and Labs, Aerospace and Defense/ Semiconductors/ Chemical Engineering/ Materials Science Companies, Metallurgy, Metals/ Construction and Materials/ Electrical Components and Equipments/ Industrial Machinery/ Mining • Government institutions with materials science, physics, and chemistry research departments

16. Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information Search via Periodic Table – Search Result Page Select chemical elements Available content shown

17. Landolt-Börnstein SpringerMaterials Siteguide of the Platform Comparable Products Additional Information Business Model • Institutional licenses • Database / access-only license • Annual subscription fee • No local loading • Subscribe to the complete collection • Tiered pricing based on institutional size and type (FTE/FTR)

18. What is SpringerImages? • A database of over 2 million images and associated pieces of full-text from Springer XML content, and third-party scientific image sources Images • Images include: drawings, photos, tables, charts, etc. Open Access Springer Journals Springer Books biology image library

19. Key Facts About SpringerImages - database • 2 million+ scientific, technical and medical images • Images: photos, graphs, histograms, figures and tables • Constantly growing database • Variety of sources: SpringerLink, SpringerProtocols, images.MD, and more • Peer-reviewed, trusted sources • Unlimited concurrent users • Availability: Entire collection or Medical and Life Sciences • Permission to use images for personal, non-commercial use • SpringerImages has its own, independent platform. • At the moment no integration with SpringerLink – only connection is linking from an image to original full-text source on SpringerLink

20. All science image database – strong in medicine and ls

21. Register once and log in to use features like ’image sets’ and ‘save searches’ Home Page Logo of the institution – access is granted by IP Basic search – search through image captions or all text fields Advanced search - extend your basic search with advanced search options Browse for images by subject area

22. Search Results Page Refine your search results easily by: text, subject, source, publication date or image type Zoom in to have a closer look at the results. Click on one of the thumbnails to go to image details page Drag and drop your favourite images to one of your image sets (log in required) Save your search (login required)

23. Image Details Page Image tools: see full size image, download orginal article, email, print or bookmark image or add image to a set Keywords – derived from orginal source or added by experts. Users can also add their own keywords Read the full caption of the image Extracts from the orginal article

24. Export Images Sets Easily browse through your favourite images Export your image sets to a PDF or PowerPoint file with just one click

25. Business Model • Institutional licenses* • Database / access-only license • No local loading • Annual subscription fee • Subscribe to one of the following packages: • SpringerImages: Full Collection • SpringerImages: Medical and Life Sciences collection • Tiered pricing based on institutional size and type (FTE/FTR)

26. What are protocols? • Step-by-step instructions, in a standardized format, that help researchers conduct experiments • Predefined written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments including: • Bias • Safety • Equipment • Statistical methods • Reporting • Troubleshooting • Used primarily in the life sciences

27. What makes a good protocol? • Complete and thorough instructions • Detailed materials list • Clearly organized • Supporting images/tables • Video Protocols • Trustworthy source

28. Applications Researchers use protocols to: • Solve biological problems on a molecular level • Identify, understand, manipulate, and explain biological processes, functions, structure, and activity of molecular cell components • Target cellular processes involved in disease (useful in developing early diagnosis and targeted treatments) • Discover new approaches to treating disease • Develop new drugs and lower the cost of drug development

29. Recreating experiments • Protocols are used wherever scientific experiments are conducted • Laboratory methods often first published in research literature – these often lack details of what can go wrong, hints and troubleshooting advise. • Particularly for life sciences it’s important to document the course experiments precisely, step-by-step, so that other researchers can reproduce them.

30. Subject Areas Number of Protocols

31. Discoveribility Majority of Springer Protocols are available in other indexes: • MEDLINE • PubMed • Embase.com • Scopus • ISI Web of Science • Google and Google Scholar And many more…

32. Largest collection of protocols 2010 2011 protocols 22,000 24,000 • SpringerProtocols database adds about 2,000 protocols every year • The SpringerProtocols database keeps the alternative version, when a protocol is being updated. This allow labs without latest equipment to produce the same experiment with older equipment or methods

33. Competitor Overview

34. Summary Ebooks are here to stay 40.000 + titles on Springerlink 2.462 Journals 21.724 Protocols 1.150 Book Series Databases are here (to stay?) -SpringerMaterials (PS and En) -SpringerImages (LS and MS) Available on SpringerLink

35. Thank You Questions? Cem Üzüm Cem.uezuem@springer.com + 49 62214878670