CIBER 11 may 2005

springeronline.com

Springer Update
Walter Montenarie
Licensing Manager

Roma, 11 May 2005


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New Springer
New SpringerLink
SpringerLink Products
– Electronic Journals
– Springer Online Journal Archives
– Springer Book Series
– Springer E-books
– Springer Reference Works Online

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New Springer
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Springer = Kluwer Academic Publishers and Springer Verlag

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Visitors to old kluweronline journal URL’s will be rerouted to their corresponding
URL’s on SpringerLink

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Historical usage statistics will be maintained

Kluwer Online retired, SpringerLink re-branded
Journal content to be available on SpringerLink since February 2005
Visitors to www.kluweronline.com are rerouted automatically to
www.springerLink.com

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New SpringerLink
SpringerLink

2004

2005

Overview

# of Journals

Over 500

Over 670

1,250

# of Articles avail.

300,000+

250,000+

600,000

Article downloads

13 million

10 million

35 million

Back issues

as of 1996

as of 1997

Volume 1 issue 1

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New SpringerLink
The new SpringerLink serves
– 200 Consortia worldwide with 4,000
libraries

– 6,700 institutions
– 300,000 registered individual users
– 100,000 publication alert subscribers

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New SpringerLink
Introducing SpringerLink - a powerful central access point for
researchers in science, technology and medicine.
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Powerful, easy-to-master search engine

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Redundant, reliable network infrastructure

SpringerAlert keeps users and librarians current with custom e-mail bulletins
Access control via IP address or User Name/Password
Pay-per-view purchase of full text journal articles, online book series and
eBooks
Worldwide Help Desk
Web Tutorials

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New SpringerLink
Features

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600,000 journal & book series
documents, organized by subject
into 11 Online Libraries spanning
medicine & the sciences

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Free access to...

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Tables of content
Abstracts
Sample articles / issues
Open choice articles

Online Libraries
1. Behavioral Sciences
2. Biomedical & Life Sciences
3. Business & Economics
4. Chemistry & Material Science
5. Computer Science
6. Earth & Environmental Sciences
7. Engineering
8. Humanities, Social Sciences
& Law
9. Mathematics
10. Medicine
11. Physics & Astronomy

Search
Alerting services
Favorites

Export Citation
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New SpringerLink
New Features

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Springer author alert

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“New” publication marker and ‘new
publications’ list

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Export of citations

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Feedback form

Quick search on publication /
issue / abstract page

“Most viewed articles” listed on
each journal’s home page on

Tell a colleague
Crossref search pilot
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SpringerLink Products
Electronic Journals
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1,250 journal titles in all scientific areas with 600,000 documents online.
The Online Journal Archives will be available in 2005 adding 2 million articles to
SpringerLink
Each journal has its own home page, displaying relevant information at a glance

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Aims and Scope

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Prominent links on the home page make it easy to request a sample copy, print
the page or e-mail it to a colleague

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Pay-Per-View service for individual users who are not journal subscribers

Editor and Editorial Board
Table of Contents
Submission Guidelines
Related Titles
Depending on their subscription rights, visitors can view abstracts, or full text
articles

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SpringerLink Products
Springer Online Journal Archives
Our Commitment
• Make valuable historical scientific information available now to
scientists and researchers

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Link the past to the present through the complete digitization of archival
journals

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Provide ready online access to a complete and comprehensive
collection of research work

The Scope
• The Online Archives Project will add all content from Volume I, Issue 1,
where available, from both the former Springer-Verlag and Kluwer
Academic Publishers.

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The Online Archives Project will triple the content presently on the
online publishing platform:

– 15 million pages
– 2 million articles

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Easy access to information previously difficult to locate and obtain
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SpringerLink Products
Springer Online Journal Archives
Product Offering
• Eleven Online Library Packages
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Journals will be available in a subject area package
Each contains 60-120 journal titles
Titles may appear in more than one package
All journals from Volume 1, Issue 1 (when available)

Exclusions

– Journals presently not online
– Journals not copyrighted (for example Maik Nauka)
– Journals not printed in English (Journals partially in English are
included)

– Journals discontinued prior to1995

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SpringerLink Products
Springer Online Journal Archives
Online Library Package subject areas
• Behavioral Sciences
• Biomedical and Life Sciences
• Business and Economics
• Chemistry and Materials Science
• Computer Science
• Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Engineering

• Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Physics and Astronomy
Note: Journals can be assigned to more than one package
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SpringerLink Products
Springer Online Journal Archives
Key Features of the Online Journal Archive

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Access to 2 million articles dating from 1869 available
electronically on your desktop and just a few clicks away

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Fully searchable by keyword, publication, article title
HTML title/author/abstracts information and XML references
Link to archive from current year journal page
Searchable PDF (OCR) format at 300 dpi
Superimposed images
DOIs inserted

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SpringerLink Products
Springer Online Journal Archives
Pricing Structure
• Flexible terms
• One-off payment for subject package
• Springer Online Archives are available as complete subject
packages

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Individual articles may be purchased through pay-per-view sales
Consortia arrangements available

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SpringerLink Products
Springer Book Series
Features

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Best 25 Springer Book Series available online

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2,700 volumes available through SpringerLink

Proceedings, text books and monographs
Main subject areas Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science and
Mathematics
Available through SpringerLink, subscriber access is gained
through:

– Passwords/Usernames for individuals and society members
– IP verification for institutions
Athens authentications are also available.

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Book Series available in a subscription model
Unlimited use
COUNTER statistics

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SpringerLink Products
Springer Book Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The series began in 1973 and has grown to over 1,700
volumes and over 45,000 articles.

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Sub-series include:
– Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
– Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI)

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Published with close cooperation with the computer
science R&D community, academics and prestigious
institutes.
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LNCS and its sub-series are a well established medium
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science and information technology research and

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teaching.

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SpringerLink Products
Springer Book Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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LNCS currently contains more than:
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1,800 volumes available online
36,000 full-text documents available as PDFs via SpringerLink
Data coverage 1983 – 2005
2005: 425 new volumes

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LNCS is highly committed to report the latest results
from all areas of computer science and information
technology.

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Total of citations is 16,816, ranked number 1 in the
ISI (JCR) computer science category in 2002
(comparing to the second position with 6,269
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SpringerLink Products
Springer Book Series

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SpringerLink Products
Springer e-books

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Powered by netLibrary,
Online eBooks provide:

– Nearly 2,000 books available
– Monographs and text books
– Online viewing
• No large downloads
• No software installation

– Usage statistics/reporting
– MARC records
– Multilingual support interface

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SpringerLink Products
Springer e-books

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Ultimate flexibility is available,
including:

– Online viewing for UNLIMITED
concurrent users

– Purchase individually or in bulk,
no required subject bundles

– Co-branding with your institution
– FULL-TEXT SEARCH and
keyword search

– Access through IP
authentification with personal
username and password

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SpringerLink Products
Springer e-books

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DRM

– Display of a single page at a
time in the browser

– The text of that page can be
copied and pasted, and
printed

– Everything has to be done one
page at a time

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SpringerLink Products
Springer e-books
Subject areas
• Arts
• Astronomy/Astrophysics/Spac
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Biological Sciences
Business Administration
Chemistry
Computer and Information
Science
Earth Sciences
Economics

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Engineering
Environmental Sciences
Humanities
Law

Linguistics
Materials Science
Mathematics
Medicine
Operations
Research/Management Science

Education
Electrical and Electronic
Engineering
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SpringerLink Products
Springer e-books
Pricing guidelines

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One-off price: pay once and the book is yours

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Different pricing model possible (e.g. subscription model)

No maintenance, update, subscriptions fees
When the Print price (P) is 100, then the E-only price (E) is 100 and E + P
= 120
Shared pricing schedules available for consortia/multiple institutions
Free trials available
Volume discount structure:
10%

15%

25-49

50-99

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25%

100-199 200-299

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40%
Discount

300-399 400-499

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eBooks


SpringerLink Products
Springer Reference Works Online
Providing the Best Features of
Interactivity:
– Powerful Search Capability
– Frequent Updates
– Multi-volume Links
– Campus-wide IP verification
Users can:
– Save searches for future
reference
– Make notes in the text for
reference
– Refer information to colleagues
– Bookmark specific references or
pages

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SpringerLink Products
Springer Reference Works Online
Titles
– Computational and Mathematical Sciences

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Coherent Domain Optical Methods
Computer Science and Communications Dictionary
Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science
Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management
Encyclopedia of Optimization
Robust electronic Design
The Complete Handbook of the Internet

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Computational Methods in Biophysics….Volume 1-4
Concise Encyclopedia of Supersymmetry and Noncommutative….
Handbook of Nanophase and Nanostructured Materials
Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry
Magnetism
Polymer Blends Handbook
Riegel’s Handbook of Industrial Chemistry

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