About Blackwell Publishing

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About Blackwell Publishing

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A Brief History of Blackwell's

• First shop opened by Benjamin Harris
  Blackwell
• Blackwell Scientific Publications founded
  (Blackwell Science Ltd)
• Merger of Blackwell Science and Blackwell
  Publishers to form Blackwell Publishing
• Representative office opens in Shanghai
• Representative office opens in Singapore
• 2006 Blackwell Publishing Journals list tops
  800 titles

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Original Blackwells Bookshop Broad Street,
Oxford
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Offices around the world
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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.
• We aim continuously to improve the quality and
  effectiveness of our products and services.
• Just as we support the advance of knowledge and
  learning, we are constantly developing our own
  professional skills too.
• We strive to align our goals and values with
  those of our clients and customers. In
  partnership with them we are making an important
  contribution to society.

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5 reasons why Blackwell Publishing journals are
different

• We are the worlds leading publisher on behalf of
  academic and professional societies.
• What this means our society journals represent
  excellent quality and value.
• The average prices of our journals are low.
• What this means the cost per use of our journals
  is low.
• We are committed to growing the intellectual
  strength of our journals and to publishing the
  best research.
• What this means our list is continuously growing
  in size and quality.
• Our list is both broad covering a wide range of
  disciplines and deep - we publish several of
  the top titles in many core subject areas.
• What this means our journals can meet the
  research needs of most institutions.
• Our online developments and licensing terms
  ensure that libraries get the most use from their
  purchase.
• What this means the value library customers get
  from their purchase is high.

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Publishing across multiple disciplines

• Agricultural and Animal Sciences
• Business, Economics, Accounting Maths
• Engineering, Computing Technology
• Health Sciences
• Humanities
• Life Physical Sciences
• Medicine
• Social Behavioural Sciences

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758 journals in the 2006 Collection
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The worlds leading society publisher
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Adding value to the publishing process

• Technical infrastructure
• Electronic editorial office
• Best practice
• Sharing costs
• Financial support
• Administrative services
• Copy editing
• XML tagging and mark up
• Proofing and typesetting
• Online publication
• Print publication
• Print distribution

• Management of metadata
• Marketing and sales
• Usage statistics
• Archival deposit
• Legal infringement monitoring

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Providing access in the Developing world

• HINARI (WHO)
• Launched January 2002
• Over 2700 journals from 60 publishers
• Access in 1600 Institutions in 113 countries
• 254 Blackwell journals included
• AGORA (FAO)
• Agora launched October 2003
• Over 700 journals from 20 publishers
• Access in 500 Institutions in 50 countries
• 138 Blackwell journals included
• PERI - INASP
• Established in 1992
• Access to all Blackwell journals in 13 less
  developed countries
• Particularly Africa, Asia Latin America
• Training programmes for local authors and editors

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Over 50 Journals transferring to Blackwell in 2006

• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences New
  York Academy of Sciences
• FEMS Microbiology Letters - Previously Elsevier
• FEMS Microbiology Reviews - Previously Elsevier
• FEMS Microbiology Ecology - Previously Elsevier
• FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology -
  Previously Elsevier
• FEMS Yeast Research - Previously Elsevier
• Journal of Agricultural Economics - Agricultural
  Economics Society
• EuroChoices - Agricultural Economics Society
• Journal of Forensic Sciences - American Academy
  of Forensic Sciences
• The Developing Economies - Institute of
  Developing Economies, Japan External Trade
  Organization
• Journal of Communication - International
  Communication Association
• Human Communication Research - International
  Communication Association
• Communication Theory - International
  Communication Association
• Journal of Computer Mediated Communication -
  International Communication Association
• The Journal of Dermatology - Japanese
  Dermatological Association
• Soil, Use and Management  - Previously CABI
• Journal of Zoology - Previously Cambridge
  University Press
• Animal Conservation - Previously Cambridge
  University Press
• Journal of Architectural Education - Previously
  MIT Press

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Blackwell journals represent excellent value for
money
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Share of ISI ranked journals by publisher
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Share of ISI citations by publisher Blackwell
has the second most cited list
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Average Increase in Impact Factor by Publisher,
2003-2004
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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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Corporate Site Redesign
Entry points for different customer client
groups
News features from Press Room
Top-level subjects listed on home page
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About the Subjects and Journals

• Medicine
• Professional
• Science
• Social Science
• Humanities

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164 Medical Journals Listed by ISI
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About Professional Journals from Blackwell

• Journals aimed at the professions
• Nurses
• Dentists
• Vets
• Engineers
• Fish Farmers
• Agriculturalists
• Industrial Chemists
• Food Technologists

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About Science Journals from Blackwell
Life Physical Sciences
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The Social Science and Humanities

• Over 300 journals
• 28 subjects from Aristotle to African Politics,
  from Linguistics to Labour Relations, from
  Finance to Family Therapy
• Over 200 societies many of the societies we
  publish for are household names in the academic
  world. Among them the American Finance
  Association, The Royal Economic Society, the
  Royal Anthropological Society. (Full list
  included at end)
• Top quality articles by top quality academics
  these are journals at the very forefront of their
  field, written by leading academics. This is
  reflected in another year of excellent
  performance in the ISI rankings.
• 68 new journals since 2000 a total of 68 new
  journals have joined Blackwell in the past 4
  years. In that time we have lost only 7 which
  have ceased publishing either by mutual agreement
  or through a sale. In 2004 we added 17 to the
  list and we have 14 new titles already signed for
  05 with more still to be confirmed.

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More number 1 ranked titles than anyone else
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Blackwell Compass Inspiring new online reviews
journals for the humanities
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About Compass

• 3 cutting edge reviews journals for the
  humanities
• History Compass, Literature Compass, Philosophy
  Compass
• Aimed at researchers, teaching faculty, and
  students across the humanities and social
  sciences.
• Each publishes 100 new peer-reviewed survey
  articles per year.
• Cross-disciplinary, aimed at experts in a field,
  those seeking succinct and lively overviews of
  another field, and students.
• Fast, continuous publication, with articles
  typically available 6-8 weeks from receipt of the
  final, peer-reviewed version.
• Distinct websites for each Compass with the
  content on Synergy all the benefits of Counter
  stats, metadata, Marc records, etc.

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Subscribing to Compass

• Access includes all available content on the
  Compass sites.
• Access includes perpetual archival rights to
  paid-for content.
• Trials available now.
• Any time start subscriptions.
• Coming in 2007 Geography Compass, Language
  Linguistics Compass, and Religion Compass.

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Digitized Journal Backfiles from Blackwell
Publishing
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About Digitized Backfiles from Blackwell

• 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.

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Journals Available to Order Now

• 121 journals available to order as of May 1st.
• 35 with content already loaded on Blackwell
  Synergy.
• Latest title and pricing update
  www.blackwellpublishing.com/backfiles
• Subject spread of available titles

MEDICINE 25
LIFE PHYSICAL SCIENCE 22
SOCIAL BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE 21
BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, FINANCE, ACCOUNTING, MATHS STATISTICS 17
NURSING, HEALTH DENTISTRY 12
HUMANITIES 10
AGRICULTURE ANIMAL SCIENCES 8
ENGINEERING, COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY 3
LAW 2
ARTS 1
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Purchasing Model

• Institutions may purchase a single title any
  selection of titles all titles currently
  available or the complete backfile collection.
• Hosting and maintenance fees charged based on the
  number of journal backfiles licensed. These will
  be waived until January 1, 2009 on all orders
  placed before December 31, 2006.

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Blackwell Synergy
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Blackwell Synergy Assets

• Your patrons have access to the most highly cited
  journals from top scholarly societies.
• Full-text HTML and PDF articles with reference
  links to CrossRef, PubMed, ISI, CSA, CIS, JSTOR
  and Medline links.
• Link forward to articles and papers that cite the
  current article.
• Self-service IP administration keeping you in
  control.
• COUNTER-compliant usage data thats easy to
  download.
• MARC 21 compliant holdings file for setting up
  links in your library OPAC
• SFX-compatible holdings file for easy OPAC
  integration.
• OnlineEarly articles available on Synergy before
  print.

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Our Licensing Terms are Generous

• License designed by librarians, for librarians
• 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

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Redesign of Blackwell Synergy coming soon
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Thank you !

• Reinhard Schuelke
• Journal Sales Manager
• reinhard.schuelke_at_ber.blackwellpublishing.com