1. Product Overview Health Science eBooks Embase SciVerse Scopus Jessica Herzog Customer Development Manager SCC MLA October 2010

2. Product Overview Health Science eBooks Embase SciVerse Scopus

3. Health Science eBooks on ScienceDirect 83% of Librarians saytheir patrons’ workflow productivity has been positively impacted by using Online Books on ScienceDirect

5. Approximately 700 newly published books added annually

6. Prestigious Imprints

7. Academic Press, Digital Press, Elsevier Science, Gulf Professional Publishing, Morgan Kaufmann, Newnes, North-Holland, Pergamon, Syngess, and more!

8. Available Book Formats

9. Reference Works

10. eBooks

11. Handbooks

14. From Elsevier’s Health Sciences division, the world’s largest health sciences publisher with a reputation for the highest quality content available from these imprints: Mosby, Saunders, and Churchill Livingston

16. Health Sciences eBook Collections provide diverse coverage of Medicine and Allied Health topics with a more clinical focus than existing S&T titles on ScienceDirect

17. MARC records available free via OCLC - very complete - include library of congress subject headings - supplied by batch for easy uploading

19. Simultaneous User Access: Multiple users can access the same content simultaneously without delay

20. One Time Investment: With only a one time investment, you gain perpetual access

22. Most preferred eBook Provider: why? Most preferred eBook Provider: why? Most preferred by users… For several reasons… Most Recurring Reasons for Preferring eBooks on ScienceDirect1 Most Preferred eBook Provider1 80% 8. Good Reputation 67% 70% 7. High Familiarity 1. Easy Access 60% Share of Users 50% 5. Most Comprehensive 40% 30% 2. Better Usability 4. Best Availability 20% 3. Quality Content 10% 12% 10% 6% 4% 0% Science
Direct Springer-
link Wiley Interscience Taylor & Francis Other Source: Elsevier eBooks user study (Monitor Group, 2008). 900 responses from faculty & students

23. Preferred Point of Entry to Online Resources: Researchers’ Preference Source: 2009 SMS Research/Elsevier Survey Responses from Researchers Worldwide

24. HS eBooks Collections include healthy discounts! Applied depending on the amount of content purchased Collection discounts: eBook Complete Backlist collection = 35% eBook CompleteFrontlist collection = 25% eBook SubjectBacklist collection = 25% eBook SubjectFrontlist collection= 15% *Complimentary 30-day trials are available

25. Product Overview Health Science eBooks  Embase SciVerse Scopus

26. What is Embase? The world’s most comprehensive, intelligent biomedical research tool, providing the drug and drug-related research community with reliable and authoritative content, to advance new biomedical and pharmaceutical discovery

27. Why Embase? Confidence Find all relevant articles that may not otherwise be found by alternative databases Deep biomedical indexing All relevant, up-to-date biomedical information from the research literature Precise retrieval Deep and focused research through powerful retrieval tools

29. 2,000 journal titles exclusively available in Embase

30. Over 23 million records from Embase Classic (1950 onwards)

31. 900,000 + records added annually; 3,500 added each day

32. 260,000+ Conference Abstracts; 1,000 added each day

35. With a total content exceeding 7,500 journal titles; Embase covers over 60 topic areas

36. Over 25% of Embase journal titles are unique**, including 30% of titles covering core pharmacology and clinical topics“Other” includes traditional MEDLINE topics: dentistry, veterinaryscience,nursing Embase covers all “traditional EMBASE” plus MEDLINE (just the core drug & clinical areas are highlighted here)

38. Initially from 6 publishers These publishers (together) account for 20% of all EMBASE journalsElsevier 555 titles Springer 268 titles Karger 91 titles Nature 66 titles Cambridge University Press 33 titles IEEE 4 titles These publishers (together) account for 20% of all EMBASE journals

40. Unique features:Every conference is summarized by a searchable review record All conference abstract records include searchable online abstracts All conference abstracts & reviews are indexed with Emtree Conference name, date and location are searchable

41. Confidence: Conference Abstracts (Jan 2010)

43. Drug and disease index terms are qualified by subheadings which define the context of use of each term

44. Five key drug subheadings are further qualified to show the linked drug or disease terms

45. Additional index terms include: drug and medical device trade names and manufacturer names, CAS registry numbers and molecular sequence numbers

47. More than 230,000 synonyms (with over 144,000 drugs and chemical synonyms)

48. 7,500 explosion terms (terms that define the hierarchical structure)

49. 78 subheadings (64 drug subheadings & 14 disease subheadings)

50. 20,300 links to CAS registry numbers

52. Comprehensive drug searching: Emtree includes chemical names, trade names, and laboratory/research codes as well as generic names.

53. Up-to-date: the latest drugs, diseases, organisms and procedures are indexed as candidate terms throughout the year, and the most frequently used terms are added annually to Emtree. This means you can search using even the newest terms.

54. Explosion (tree) searching: facilitated by Emtree's extensive hierarchical structure, with up to 12 levels, you can broaden and narrow your search.

55. Natural language terminology: no need to know "how" terms are defined in Emtree, just use natural language.

57. Choice of Emtree or MeSH terminology to carry out searches

58. All search results can be refined using biomedical and bibliographic filters

59. Daily update of new records for the best possible currency

62. Deep and sophisticated indexing allows users to extract specific and unique drug and disease information from the literature in an easy and comprehensive fashion

63. Efficient retrieval tools guide users to the most relevant results Embase is a recognized solution in the workplace, playing a key role in the advancement of new biomedical and pharmaceutical discovery

64. Using EMBASE and Scopus “We always start search in Embase and use Scopus for other possibilities. So I search in Embase and find an author of interest. I would like to find out more, such as, all name possibilities and affiliations so we then move to Scopus and use the author tools. We may also find key researchers in the field by using the citation tracker in Scopus. ”

65. Product Overview Health Science eBooks  Embase  SciVerse Scopus

66. SCOPUS: the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed scientific literature and web resources

67. What’s the coverage? 40 million records 18,000 titles 16,500 peer-reviewed journals 5,000 international publishers 3,500 Arts & Humanities titles 600 trade publications 350 book series 20 million cited records, 1996-present 20 million back files, 1823-1995 *Content is updated daily ~ 1.7 million records added per year

68. Multi-disciplinary Subject Coverage Over 5,000 Publishers 7,200 6,800 4,300 5,300 Life Sciences Physical Sciences Health Sciences Social Sciences

70. Author Identifier

71. Author Evaluator

72. Journal Analyzer

73. Affiliation Identifier

75. 35 Journal Analyzer Quick, easy and transparent view of journal performance and prestige

76. Citation tracker View and track up-to-date citation information for authors and articles

77. 37 Author Identifier Distinguishes between authors of the same name as well as those whose names have different variations

78. Author Identifier Distinguishes between authors of the same name as well as those whose names have different variations

79. Author Evaluator new

80. Affiliation Finder Recognizes and matches and organization with all its research output

81. Which journals are most popular in this area? Who’s active in this field? Is this a growing topic of interest? What are other related disciplines?

83. Are refreshed twice per year

84. Correct for citation behaviour

85. Provide insights into journal performance

87. Takes a research field’s citation frequency into account

88. Considers immediacy – how quickly a paper is likely to have an impact in a given field

89. Calculates without use of a journal’s subject classification to avoid delimitation

92. Eliminates manipulation: raise the SJR ranking by being published in more reputable journals

93. ‘Shares’ a journal’s prestige equally over the total number of citations for a journal

95. h-index h-index lists all publications in descending order by the number citations received to date An author’s h-index is the highest number of papers (h), that have each received at least h citations Rates a scientist’s performance based on their career publications, as measured by the lifetime number of citations each article receives Depends on both quantity (# of publications) and quality (# of citations) of a scientist’s publications

96. 2010 Scopus Advisory Board 20 scientists and researchers 10 subject librarians from all corners of the globe; representing all major scientific disciplines. They work with the Scopus team to understand how the product is used and how it could be enhanced. Their recommendations directly influence the overall direction of Scopus and the prioritization of requests for new features. The group also contributes to the content growth strategy to ensure Scopus content stays international, current and relevant.

97. Scopus mobile application – now available!

98. Product Overview Health Science eBooks  Embase  SciVerse Scopus 

99. Introducing: SciVerse SciVerse empowers the research community to accelerate science by opening ScienceDirect & Scopus content APIs for third-party application development, enabling intelligent search and discovery across integrated content from ScienceDirect, Scopus, and the scientific web

100. Key web trends defining the future Openness &Interoperability Personalization Collaboration & Trusted Views

103. Why SciVerse? Integrated Content & Discovery Tools + Productivity-Enhancing Applications

105. Increased scrutiny and pressure on demonstrating return on investment

106. Broader range of research products available in the market“Libraries are attempting to face a future in which almost every fixed point has disappeared. Users are changing; content is changing; research is taking new forms.” Derek Law Centre for Digital Library Research

107. Libraries can become focal point for applications

108. Open to accelerate science

109. We’re here to help! A range of support services are available to help you get the most out of these products: Health Science eBooks: www.healthonsciencedirect.com Embase: http://embase.com/info/helpfiles Scopus: http://www.info.sciverse.com/scopus Elsevier Training Desk offers tutorials, presentations, and live or pre-recorded training sessions http://trainingdesk.elsevier.com