Jack OToole

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DISCOVERY TO INNOVATION
Jack OToole EI Vice President of Sales
CONCERT November Taipei, Taiwan
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Agenda

• Tools for Your Innovation
• Essential Content Sources
• Thesaurus
• What is ChemVillage ?
• Handbooks
• Engineering Innovation Backfile from 1884
• Government Documents and Reports
• About eBooks
• Questions

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Patents Information
Standards
Link to Over 3000 Engineering E-Journals
REFEREX
NTIS
200 CRC Hand Books
INSPEC
Library Holding
Compendex
Web Site SCIRUS
Link to Full Text Options
NEWS
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Tools for Your Innovation

• Engineering Village 2 is Eis interface for
  Engineering Technical Resources
• Compendex INSPEC NTIS
• CRC Press Handbooks
• Referex
• Patents, US and European
• Standards
• Scirus - web search interface
• Links to full-text journals
• Document Delivery from Linda Hall Library

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Essential Content Source - Compendex

• Comprehensive, interdisciplinary database for
  engineering
• All fields of engineering
• 5000 Journals
• 1500 Conference Reports / Proceedings
• 8 million records
• From 1970
• Weekly updates
• Backfile available - 1884

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Compendex Subject Coverage

• Mechanical Engineering Breakdown
• Aerospace Engineering
• Automotive Engineering
• Fluid flow Hydraulics, Pneumatics and Vacuum
• Heat and Thermodynamics
• Materials Handling
• Mechanical Engineering General
• Mechanical Engineering Plant and Power
• Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
• Nuclear Technology
• Railroad Engineering

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Essential Content Source - INSPEC

• Leading international database covering Physics,
  Electronics, Computing and IT
• 3500 Journals
• 1500 Conference Proceedings
• 7 million records
• from 1969
• Weekly updates

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INSPEC Database

• Bibliographic Database for Science Engineering
• - Physics
• - Electrical Electronics Engineering
• - Computing Control Engineering
• - Information Technology
• Wide range of cross-disciplinary topics
• Journals, Conferences and Other Documents
• Global Coverage
• International Recognition for High Quality

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Source Documents
Journals 72.6
Other 2.1
Conference in Journal 8.5
Conference Articles 16.8
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INSPEC Database Subjects
4.3 million
2.5 million
1.9 million
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Searching Compendex INSPEC

• Broadest possible range of topics within
  scientific, applied science, engineering and
  technical disciplines
• 14 million records, from 1969
• Up to date information every week
• International journal coverage
• Thesaurus terms, helping end-users to explore
  more

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Records

• Bibliographic information
• 200-300 word abstract
• Keywords highlighted in RED
• Ei controlled terms - thesaurus terms
• Full-text links via Cross Ref, Science Direct etc
  ...
• Links to local library holdings, catalogue
• Document delivery link

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Record view
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Link to Science Direct
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Link to Science Direct
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Ei Thesaurus

• New unique thesaurus for Compendex and INSPEC
• Search and browse terms
• View and select within hierarchy, broader,
  narrower and related terms
• Transfer to search database

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Ei Thesaurus
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The next generation in research delivery-
Backfile from 1884
No matter how advanced science becomes, we will
always need to acknowledge its foundations. The
innovations of tomorrow will be built from the
inspiration of the past. A definitive historical
record provides a concrete starting point, and
the perspective required to fuel progress.

• File Years 1884-1969
• 1.8 Million Records
• One Time Purchase

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Government Documents and Reports -NTIS

• National Technical Information Service
• Approximately 2M Records
• Back File to 1964
• Controlled Vocabulary
• Federated Search
• Can Search the Big Three Simultaneously (Village
  2/Compendex, INSPEC, NTIS)

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About eBooks

• REFEREX

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eBook Background

• The first electronic book was created in the
  early 1970s
• Text only and housed on mainframes
• Electronic books would wait over 20 years until
  the technology could better sustain commercial
  ebooks
• Around 2000ish, commercial ebook products picked
  up steam in the STM market
• Today, significant ST players include
  NetLibrary, Knovel, McGraw-Hill, CRC Press,
  Pearson (Safari)

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Books are not journals!

• Different commercial models in print
• Subscription vs. one off
• Different format
• Journals highly structured
• Different content
• New discovery vs. established reference
• Peer review vs. expertise

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So what is it?

• Referex Refureks
• Referex Engineering aims to be the leading
  electronic reference product offering the
  broadest and deepest available coverage of
  engineering reference

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Turn to Ei

• Engineering Village 2 is the leading discovery
  platform for the engineering community.
• Offering a flagship databases Compendex, Inspec,
  netBase etc.
• Strategy for growth calls for active
  acquisition of engineering content to support
  research and information needs
• Growth through up-sell
• History of ebook success
• CRC netBASE product line

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The basics

• Referex Engineering aims to be the leading
  electronic reference collection in engineering
  with unparalleled breadth and depth
• Fully utilizes search technology from market
  leading discovery platform, Engineering Village 2
• Comprised of over 350 reference titles in 3 core
  collections

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3 Referex Engineering Collections

• Each collections is comprised of 100 handbooks,
  monographs and professional reference texts
• Mechanical and Materials
• Electronic and Electrical
• Chemical Petrochemical and Process

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Approach to Publishing

• Our books provide engineers in practice, training
  and education with the information they need to
  succeed.
• A few broad, general references (Standard
  Handbooks) complemented by focused titles that
  drill down into more detailed knowledge.
• By Engineers for Engineers
• Demystifying Technology series
• Embedded Technology series
• Rules of Thumb series

Broad, high-level view
In the trenches
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Approach to Publishing

• Our Books provide breadth depth, for engineers
  in the trenches
• Provide training materials to undergraduate and
  graduate engineering students, including at the
  vocational and technician levels
• Enable problem-solving, lifetime learning and
  continuing professional development by supplying
  accessible, current, and required resources for
  professionals.
• Focus on compliance and qualification-driven
  content where possible (c.f. legal/regulatory/cert
  ification/qualification issues)
• Deliver collected wisdom in current and
  cutting-edge technologies in focused handbook
  and reference book form
• Innovate all the above and combine electronic,
  database, e-learning, eBook, or other applicable
  forms as appropriate.

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which means that

• The book content comprising Referex is of
  superior quality, timeliness and focus.
• It offers vertical depth of coverage,
  concentrated in the 3 collection areas, which is
  unrivalled in competing products
• Within the 3 collections there is breadth of
  content to satisfy wide-ranging search needs.
• Complementary to 30,000ft, broad viewpoint
  content offered by CRC Press/EngNetBase Product.

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Key Publishing Clusters

• Our strengths, from which we have drawn content
  into the Referex collections, are in the
  following
• Electrical Engineering (see detail)
• Mechanical Engineering
• Materials Design
• Industrial Engineering
• Health Safety
• Chemical/Process Engineering
• Petroleum Engineering
• Environmental Engineering Energy
• Biomedical Engineering

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EE field detail

• Electronics and signal processing analog,
  digital mixed-signal design, DSP, video/image
  processing
• Telecommunications RF, wireless, optical,
  broadband, satellite
• Embedded systems design, programming and
  applications, embedded internet, microcontroller
  applications
• Computer engineering / systems digital
  video/audio design, interfacing, high-speed
  networking, storage technology optical computer
  hardware
• Optical Engineering optics laser devices
• Instrumentation and control, internet-based
  control systems
• Electrical power engineering renewables, power
  electronics, power systems, control

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Publishing Strategy

• Engineering growth markets information in most
  demand
• Communications Engineering (Wireless, RF, signal
  and image processing, networking and
  telecommunications, data, video and voice
  systems)
• Embedded Systems/Computer Engineering
  (microprocessor systems for communications,
  automation, internetworking, interfacing, data
  acquisition and control etc.)
• Energy Environmental Engineering (from
  petroleum/fossil fuels with the GPP imprint to
  the future of sustainable energy wind, fuel
  cell etc. and environmental impact/clean up)
• Materials/Bio-Engineering (some of the most
  exciting, and best funded practical engineering
  development going on is in the intersection of
  engineering disciplines with materials, biology,
  and computing.)

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Collection fit with Industry

• Where the collections are focused, and what
  sectors will be most targetable
• Petrochemical/Process Engineering
  Oil,gas,refining, energy and pipeline companies.
  Chemical, process, plastics, food, pharmaceutical
  and other bulk solids manufacturing companies.
• Mechanical/Materials Engineering automotive,
  aerospace, marine, product design, advanced
  materials, polymer and plastics, electronics
  manufacturing companies, bearings, lubrication as
  well as sealants and adhesives businesses.
• Electrical Engineering communications,
  networking, consumer electronics, hardware
  design, computer engineering, chip design and
  manufacturing companies, power supply, power
  generation and battery design and mfg.

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Functionality Searching

• eBooks search tab
• Select collections
• Keyword search of full text
• Metadata search (ISBN, Title, Author, Publisher)
• Collection browse of book titles
• Subject browse of book titles

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• Chem Village

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ChemVillage

• Launched in January 2002
• A Web-based information delivery service offering
  a wide range of quality resources for information
  specialists, professionals, and researchers
  working in chemistry and chemical engineering

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ChemVillage

• Standard Offering
• Databases (hosted at Ei included in standard
  offering)
• Chimica
• Beilstein Abstracts
• Chemical Business Newsbase
• Patent Databases
• USPTO
• esp_at_cenet
• SCIRUS

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ChemVillage

• CRC Press Products (add-on pricing)
• CHEMnetBASE
• Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
• Combined Chemical Dictionary
• Polymers a property database
• Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
• Properties of Organic Compounds
• ENVIROnetBASE

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CRC Press Handbooks
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CRC Press Handbooks

• ENGnetBASE full-text handbooks
• Available online via EV2
• Searchable PDF full-texts
• 200 titles
• www.engnetbase.com

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ENGnetBASE subjects

• Heat Transfer
• Image Processing
• Industrial Engineering Manufacturing
• Intelligent Systems
• Lasers Optical Engineering
• Material Science
• Mechanical Engineering (General)
• MEMS
• Metals Alloys
• Microelectronics
• Microwaves Electromagnetics
• Nanoscience/Nanotechnology
• Operations Research
• Plant Engineering
• Power Electronics
• Power Engineering
• Structural Engineering
• Systems Controls
• Systems Engineering

• Aerospace Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Ceramics Glasses
• Chemical Engineering
• Circuits Devices
• Civil Engineering (General)
• Composite Materials
• Computer Engineering
• Construction Engineering
• Digital Signal Processing
• Electrical Engineering (General)
• Electrical Engineering Communications
• Electronic Packaging
• Electronics
• Energy Engineering
• Engineering (General)
• Engineering Management
• Environmental Engineering
• Fire Science

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Other CRC handbooks

• CHEMnetBASE
• ENVIROnetBASE
• MATHnetBASE
• STATSnetBASE
• FOODnetBASE
• FORENSICnetBASE
• POLYMERSnetBASE
• ITKnowledgeBASE
• InfoSECURITYnetBase

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Patents Information
Standards
Link to Over 3000 Engineering E-Journals
REFEREX
NTIS
200 CRC Hand Books
INSPEC
Library Holding
Compendex
Web Site SCIRUS
Link to Full Text Options
NEWS