My keynote at the MCPC 2011 conference

1. Wither Scientific Publishing?
Collaborative Innovation,
Open Platforms and
Personalized Workflow Solutions
Has an Answer
Vishal Gupta
Elsevier Inc
Director, Developer Network
@Visha1Gupta
Nov 19, 2011

2. Who we are
• We publish around 2,000 scientific journals and close to
20,000 books and major reference works in STM
(Science, Technology and Medical Sciences).
• We develop online information solutions for over 30
million scientists, professionals and students.
• A global community of 7,000 journal editors, 70,000
editorial board members, 300,000 reviewers and
600,000 authors.

3. 1638

4. XML
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8. FUNDAMENTAL
SHIFT IN THE
WAY WE
COMMUNICATE

9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/spursfan_ace/2328879637/sizes/l /

10. “It is not the strongest of
the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most
responsive to change.”
- Charles Darwin

12. Platform as a Service...Platform for innovation
APP
ScienceDirect APP APP Scopus
APP
APP APP
10 MILLION 15 THOUSAND 41 MILLION
FULL TEXT E-BOOKS RECORDS
ARTICLES
Web/Third Party Content SciTopics
300 MILLION 13 SOURCES
WEB PAGES SOCIETY
APP
APP APP PAGES SHARE
WRITTEN BY YOUR KNOWLEDGE
18 INSTITUTIONS 23 MILLION SCIENTIFIC AND LEARN FROM
INTL. REPOSITORY PATENT FILES APP EXPERTS ONLY OTHERS
APP APP

13. Collaborating with scientific community, developers
and researchers...
ARTICLE AUTHOR
CONTENT DATA
ABSTRACTS AFFILIATION
DATA
CONTENT
…to develop domain specific workflow tools and
improve our agility in responding to customer needs

16. Developers, developers, developers,...........

17. forum for idea exchange

18. Creating Apps integrated across different products
1 Hub results page 3 ScienceDirect article page
2 Scopus abstract page 4 ScienceDirect results page

19. Open to 3rd party innovations

20. Contextual information
User experience enriched with apps

21. seamless integration with the product

22. Enriched content
Unique engaging experience

23. bring agility to product development to respond to
end user needs
from concept to release 24 hours

24. Apps Mean Customized Experiences

25. Subject Specificity-Customized Experience

26. Collaboration with scientific community
In discussions
Under development
Existing Partners

27. NONE OF US
IS AS SMART
AS ALL OF US

30. Across Global Boundaries

31. Global Application Challenge

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34. With the Students…Developer Hack Event at NJIT
“The Elsevier hackathon is the kind
of challenging practical real-world
collaborative programming
experience we like to provide
to students to augment the
concepts that we teach in the
classroom”
-Narain Gehani
Dean College of Computer
Sciences, NJIT

35. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Hackathon