VOWB Training session

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VOWB Training session Tuesday 24th April 2007
Matthew Crook Journal Sales Account Manager,
Benelux and Scandinavia
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Program for today..

• 10.00 10.10 Welcome Introduction to the
  session
• 10.10 10.20 Wiley-Blackwell Update Questions
  from VOWB Members
• 10.20 10.50 Blackwell Publishing Presentation
  Society Publishing (Policies and Collection
  models explained).
• 10.50 11.20 Blackwell Synergy (the redesign)
• 11.20 11.50 Practical exercises (audience
  participation)
• 11.50 12.00 Questions

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Wiley-Blackwell Update

• 5th February 2007 Acquisition of Blackwell
  Finalized
• Business as usual until December 2008..
• Upper levels of Management decided
• Transition team working on restructure
• - Sales team
• - Online Platform
• - Title lists
• Do you have any Questions..?
• http//www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/wiley2.pdf
  

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Blackwell Publishing Society publishing
(policies and collection models explained)
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Blackwell Publishing Mission Statement

• Partnerships in learning, research and
  professional practice
• Our mission is to provide an expert publishing
  service to other experts - authors, editors,
  librarians, researchers, teachers and their
  students, societies and professionals - enabling
  them to do their jobs better.

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• Blackwell has publishing partnerships with more
  societies than anybody else

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We Publish for the Worlds Leading Societies
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What this means

• The journals represent the best in their fields
  published for a distinct community of scholars.
• They tend to be lower priced.
• gt70 Society owned
• Much of the income is returned to the scholarly
  community More than 50
• STM HSS Collections

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• There is continuous annual growth in the number
  of titles and the amount of research we publish.

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A dynamic growing list of journals

• New Starts

• Transfers / Takeovers

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Journals transferring to Blackwell in 2006

• Alcoholism
• Animal Conservation
• Children and Society
• Clinical Psychology Science and Practice
• Communication Theory
• Ethics and International Affairs
• EuroChoices
• Experimental Techniques
• FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology
• FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• FEMS Microbiology Letters
• FEMS Microbiology Reviews
• FEMS Yeast Research
• Human Communication Research
• International Migration Reviews
• International Zoo Yearbook
• Journal of Agricultural Economics
• Journal of Architectural Education

• Journal of Communication
• Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
• Journal of Forensic Sciences
• Journal of Law Medicine
• Journal of Petroleum Geology
• Journal of Rural Health
• Journal of Travel Medicine
• Journal of World Intellectual Property
• Journal of Zoology
• Law Society Inquiry
• Legal Studies
• Nutrition Dietetics
• Politics Policy
• Religious Studies Review
• Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
• Soil, Use and Management 
• The Developing Economies
• Water Environment Journal

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• Journals Ceasing or Leaving Blackwell

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Journal Growth 1665-2001
Total number of active refereed learned journals
in 2001 14,700
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Main Cause of Journal Growth Content
More researchers ? more journals
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Investing in New Journals for New Specialist Areas

• Journals launching in 2007
• Journals now in Volume 2

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• Blackwell works to also grow the quality and
  impact of the journals we publish.

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50 titles in the Top 10 of their subject
category(up from 39 in 2003)

• 18 Journals Ranked Number 1

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432 journals ranked by ISI in 2004

• Average 2004 Impact Factor 1.6
• (up from 1.434 in 2003)
• 61 of the list increased its IF

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Impact Factor
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We Offer Choices to Libraries

• Single Subscriptions
• Premium subscriptions Extended online access
  back to 1997, OnlineEarly, plus archival rights
  (where we have the rights to deliver it).
• Standard Subscriptions 10 less than Premium
  Print plus limited online access to current plus
  one previous year.
• Online Only Subscriptions 15 less than
  Premium
• Collection Deals Standard
• Online Only Collection Deals
• Legacy Back-files
• Compass Review Journals
• Blackwells Reference Online

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The Collection

• Suitable for both consortia and individual
  institutions within open consortia.
• 1 Year agreement (some exceptions)
• Insists on maintenance of Subscriptions
• Top-up fee for access to the Collection (STM,
  HSS, FULL)
• The top-up fee is banded into three price
  categories by FTE (full time equivalent)
• Consortia are asked to pay an annual
  administration fee
• Transfer Titles ARE INCLUDED
• New/Young Titles ARE NOT INCLUDED
• Archival Access back to 1997
• Perpetual Access to Paid for Content

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Online Only or FLIP

• Suitable for centrally managed or centrally
  funded consortia.
• This model reverses (or flips) the traditional
  model of print plus a top-up for online access
  and makes the electronic fee the base price.
• Top-up fee provides access to Full Collection
• Print Subscriptions at DDP rates (20)
• One Central Invoice sent to the Consortia
• Multi-year deals for predictable pricing
• Title list is fixed at the start of the deal so
  that all new and transfer titles can be added on
  request.
• New Titles We use a multiplier
• Transfer titles Number of existing Subs X
  Online Only List Price

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Online Only or FLIP - Example
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• 500 journals will be digitized by the end of
  2008.
• 6.5 million pages of content.
• All issues from Volume 1, Issue 1, to December
  1996.
• All subject areas medicine science social
  science and humanities.
• Articles loaded in PDF format with XML-based
  headers, abstracts and references fully linked
  and searchable.
• Archival rights included.
• Seamless access through Blackwell Synergy to
  content in a journal, whether its published in
  2006 or 1906.
• http//www.blackwellpublishing.com/backfiles/defau
  lt.asp

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Digitized Journals Available to Order Now

• 274 journals available now.
• 110 with content already loaded on Blackwell
  Synergy.
• Latest title and pricing update
  www.blackwellpublishing.com/backfiles
• Subject spread of available titles

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Legacy Discount Levels
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• 3 cutting edge reviews journals for the
  humanities available now - History Compass,
  Literature Compass, Philosophy Compass
• Coming in 2007 - Religion Compass, Geography
  Compass, Language and Linguistics Compass
• Aimed at researchers, teaching faculty, and
  students across the humanities and social
  sciences.
• Each publishes 100 new peer-reviewed survey
  articles per year.

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Blackwell Reference Online
Largest Academic Social Science and Humanities
Reference Resource Online

• Almost 300 Reference Volumes covering Humanities
  and Social Sciences, including
• Blackwell Companions and Handbooks
• Major reference works
• Dictionaries, encyclopedias, subject guides

Available as a complete collection or as 6
subject bundles Business and Economics, History,
Language and Linguistics, Literature and Cultural
Studies, Philosophy and Religion, and Sociology
and Psychology.
One time purchase with archival rights
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Available in
print and online Available on subscription or as
one off purchase
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• Blackwell has a responsible pricing policy
  with low average prices and a moderate price
  increase for 2006

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Low average price
Average Price All Publishers
Blackwell Average Price
Data Source Independent Research, May 2005
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Our Licensing Terms are Generous

• License designed by librarians, for librarians
  (approved by NESLI)
• License permits
• Walk-in users
• Off-site use
• Course pack use
• Perpetual archival rights to paid-for content
• Access to articles published online before print
• Access to recent online back files during the
  period of the subscription
• Our license is currently under review

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Synergy
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• We have a popular, easy to use journals platform
  in Blackwell Synergy
• Your system works so well I'd love all the
  journals to be Blackwell's! Librarian, Baxter
  Healthcare

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About Blackwell Synergy

• Launched in 1998
• Now hosts all Blackwell Publishing online
  journals
• www.blackwell-synergy.com

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Redesign launched in 2006
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Blackwell SynergyFeatures and Benefits for
Library Administrators

• Daily updated COUNTER-compliant usage data,
  available in .txt, .htm, and XML formats. You
  can also arrange to be emailed the latest usage
  data on, say, a monthly basis.
• Self-service IP and remote username and password
  administration. Single sign-on Athens access is
  also available.
• Easy OPAC integration with a downloadable
  SFX-compatible holdings file and permanent urls
  at journal and article levels so that links never
  need updating.
• Marc21 records are available to download.
• OpenURL linking is supported.
• Z39.50 is supported.
• Upload the librarys logo so that readers within
  your institution know that their access has been
  provided by the library.
• Review the latest status of your institutions
  subscriptions.

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Blackwell Synergy

• Average 5 million sessions per month
• 2.7 million PDFs downloaded per month
• 900k searches carried out on the site each month
• Almost 3000 single articles bought each month
• Atypon contract resigned

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Used in institutions around the world
Data source top 1000 customers report, 2004
usage data
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15000 new registered users each month
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OnlineEarly access to peer-reviewed articles
before they appear in print
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Seamless reference linking
Link directly from references to cited articles
with CrossRef, or to ISI or Medline links
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Access your Library Administrator Homepage
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Synergy Administrator Page

• University X in Belgium
• 117,303 Full Text Downloads
• 850 titles accessed
• Usage on Core Titles 62,672
• Usage for Collection Titles 54,631 (47 of
  total)
• Cost per Download of collection titles Around
  0.26p
• 10 of the top 30 titles where collection titles
• 141 Collection titles experienced 100 or more
  downloads

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New look Synergy

• What's new?
• Faster loading times and overall improved site
  performance
• Cleaner design making the website easier to
  navigate
• Compliant with the ADA section 508 and W3C's
  WAI-AA accessibility standards
• Fluid page width to accommodate various screen
  resolutions
• New icons and labels to show access permissions,
  open access and free content
• Clearer labelling of terms, links, tools and
  actions
• New Tools section groups all the actions you can
  take at Abstract and Article level
• New Article menu on the right for easy access to
  references, supplementary material and to move
  from full text to PDF
• Publication history for articles first published
  online, published in issue etc
• Author affiliations appear in the centre of the
  page
• Article abbreviations (when applicable) appear on
  the left        

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New look Synergy

• What's gone or moved?
• Icons for OnlineEarly and OnlineAccepted have
  been removed
• Improved labelling following user feedback e.g.
  Download References has changed to Export
  Citation
• Definitions of actions appear when you roll over
  the text
• Menus, searching and new tools menu now on the
  left rather than the right
• Advanced search options now combined on one
  screen
• Images, tables and figures have moved to the left
  
• Sign-up for e-alerts and RSS newsfeeds are now
  grouped together on the left menu rather than in
  the centre
• RSS is now the only available format for xml
  syndication of all alerts, Atom is no longer
  available
• Society logos moved to the left
• Link to Journal Information moved from bottom
  right to top left
• Messages and adverts now appear on both the right
  and left margins      

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New look Synergy

• What's the same?
• Library administrators can upload their
  institution's branded graphic or text to appear
  on all pages
• Journal pages include branded headers
• All librarian administration features and COUNTER
  compliant reports remain
• Full and partial access flags indicate content
  availability
• Articles available in both full-text HTML and PDF
  
• Table and figure thumbnails can be expanded to
  larger images
• View most downloaded and most cited articles by
  journal
• Quick search and advanced search options
  available
• Search in other databases via CrossRef and PubMed
  
• Reference links and forward article links remain
• You can export citations to a number of reference
  management software packages
• OnlineOpen articles available free to all readers
  
• Access options via library IP authentication,
  Athens login, and personal subscription remain
• Email and RSS alerting services available for
  tables of contents, OnlineEarly and
  OnlineAccepted articles, citations, and research
  alerts by topic, author or other search term
• My Synergy personalization features remain
  including My Synergy page for registered users
  showing favorite journals and articles, e-alert
  settings, subscriptions and access settings

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Thank you!

• Matthew Crook
• Account Manager,
• Scandinavia Benelux