ScienceDirect Updates

• Approaching nine million articles

Books Content

• eBooks Collection 2008 launched
• Book Series Backfiles on ScienceDirect
• Coming in Q4 - first online-only MRWs from S&T Books
• Copyright permissions for Book content enabled through ScienceDirect

Journals Content

• Backfiles image quality, missing pages and issues – Progress Report Report 7
• Three leading journals added to ScienceDirect in response to customer demand

2collab Updates

• 2collab integrated on ScienceDirect

Librarian Tips/Help

• Information professionals talk about serving Millennials
• Curious about impacts of Elsevier's information philanthropy initiatives?

Events

• Upcoming events

Scirus Updates

• Scirus appoints Topic Pages subject editors
• Scirus Topic Pages development

Approaching nine million articles

The nine millionth article will be loaded on ScienceDirect in the coming days. Since launch in 1999, there have been approximately on average two articles added every minute. You can find the daily updated article count at the top of the Browse box on the left of the ScienceDirect homepage.
Once the nine millionth article has been published, we will interview the author to find out, among other things, how electronic publishing has affected his/her working life. The interview will be made available externally shortly thereafter.

eBooks Collection 2008 launched

The eBooks Collection 2008 was launched on May 20. Of the 440 titles in the catalogue, 200 are still awaiting publication. The titles are arranged in 19 subject areas. Offering comprehensive coverage of the full range of scientific disciplines, including those published under the renowned Pergamon and Academic Press imprints, over 4,400 books are now fully integrated with the existing books and journals on ScienceDirect.

Book Series Backfiles on ScienceDirect

On May 30, the complete Backfiles of 63 Elsevier Book Series went live on ScienceDirect. In total, 2,700 volumes are covered going right back to Volume 1 of each Book Series.

Ten new Book Series titles have also been launched on ScienceDirect.

For more information see the ScienceDirect Info site.

Coming in Q4 - first online-only MRWs from S&T Books

In addition to x-Pharm, Elsevier S&T Books' first online-only Major Reference Work, which was launched on ScienceDirect in January, two more e-only Major Reference Works will be made available exclusively on ScienceDirect this year. The Encyclopedia of Neurosciences and the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences 2nd Edition are scheduled to be released in October and November 2008 respectively.

Copyright permissions for Book content enabled through ScienceDirect

Subscribers can order copyright permissions for all of the books on ScienceDirect directly through the platform now that Rightslink® has been selected for online copyright permissions.

“Last year, we selected Rightslink to license more than 2,500 Elsevier journals,” said Helen Gainford, Elsevier’s Director of Global Rights. “We were impressed with how it improved customer responsiveness and accelerated turn-around times for copyright permissions. Our customers readily accepted it, and the application is handling thousands of copyright permissions every month.”

CCC’s Rightslink service has firmly established itself as the de facto industry standard among major publishers for online rights and permissions. Publishers using Rightslink significantly increase their rights and permissions revenues while saving on handling and transaction costs.

Backfiles image quality, missing pages and issues – Progress Report Report 7

This is a follow up from Progress Report 6 in ScienceDirect Connect March/April 2008.

Current situation
The following packages have completed the analysis phase.

The next packages being analysed are the Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Backfile and Environmental Science Backfile.

Due to a few problems with the metadata, loading onto ScienceDirect is not currently going as fast as we had planned. We hope to iron out these problems soon but we are experiencing a delay.

For more information see the ScienceDirect Info site.

Three leading journals added to ScienceDirect in response to customer demand

Three National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Journals - American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, and Journal of Renal Nutrition - became available on ScienceDirect on April 1, 2008. It is the first time that they have been made widely available to institutions via IP address on a robust, reliable electronic platform.

American Journal of Kidney Diseases is the NKF’s flagship journal. It is recognized worldwide as a leader in clinical nephrology content.

Each topic-based issue of Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease provides in-depth, scholarly review articles about the care and management of persons with early kidney disease and kidney failure, as well as those at risk for kidney disease.

Journal of Renal Nutrition is the only journal devoted exclusively to renal nutrition science and renal dietetics.

In order to allow introduction of this new offering to the marketplace, full-text access to the journals on the platform will remain open and free until September 1, 2008.

2collab integrated on ScienceDirect

Users can now see researcher-generated information from 2collab on ScienceDirect.

Introduced as a new box on the right hand-side of the abstract and full-text article page, the integrated content includes the tags used by researchers to describe an article, the number of times an article has been bookmarked, researcher comments and article ratings, and details of 2collab groups the article is shared with.

This is in addition to the “Add to 2collab’’ bookmarking button that allows people to quickly add an article as a bookmark to 2collab.

What is 2collab?
2collab is a free research collaboration tool from Elsevier. Watch the three-minute video about 2collab here.

What can your researchers do with 2collab?

• Store, manage and share web references and bookmarks
• Browse and search through other experts' public bookmarks
• Discover, evaluate and initiate contact with other 2collab users
• Export and import bookmarks / references from EndNote and RefWorks
• Use the 2collab browser button to easily add bookmarks for any site

For more information about 2collab, please read the PDF Librarian Factsheet or visit the About page at 2collab.com.

Information professionals talk about serving Millennials

The new Library Connect Newsletter, 6:2 (April 2008) addresses "Serving Millennials." In this issue, you can enjoy these articles:

• "Commons, chat and collaboration: How we’re connecting with Millennials at Murdoch University Library" by Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University, Australia
• "The future of the undergraduate library: Asking questions with too many answers and too many opportunities" by John E. Ingram, University of Florida, USA
• "Millennial disconnects with publishers and libraries" by Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
• "Undergrads’ research habits, motivators and attitudes: What studies tell us" by Brant Emery, Elsevier, The Netherlands
• "How we're moving to a primarily digital library" by Professor Yigal Burstein, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• "How we’re redesigning academic libraries to keep them as the center of campus" by Edith Falk, The Hebrew University Library Authority, Israel
• "How we're transforming our library spaces and mindset" by Oren Weinberg, Haifa University, Israel
• "The ScienceDirect High School Program: Participants report excellent results" by Rochelle L. Gore, Elsevier, USA
• "Talking with a Turkish university librarian about lending eBook readers" by Olivier Diesnis, Elsevier, The Netherlands

• Jing Xu, Reference Librarian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library, Shanghai, China
• Dr. Oliver Obst, Director of Medical Library, University of Muenster, Germany
• Nigel Lees, Manager Library & Archival Services, The Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK
• Sarah Kibirige, Assistant Director: Technical Services and Electronic Resources Management, Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service, South Africa
• Ian Colford, Assistant University Librarian for Collections Development, Killam Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Jeffrey Beall, Metadata Librarian/Assistant Professor, Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver, USA
• Melissa J. Allen, Technical Information Specialist, Technical Information Center, Caterpillar, Inc., Mossville, IL, USA
• Qinghua Liu, Head of Reference Department, Northeast Normal University Library, Changchun, China

Access the issue at www.elsevier.com/libraryconnect. Do you need print copies? Write to libraryconnect@elsevier.com.

• Dr. Mohamed Jalloh, MD, Consultant Urologist, FWACS Department of Urology, Hôpital Général de Grand Yoff, Dakar, Sénégal, talking about HINARI
• Edda Tandi Lwoga, Librarian, Sokoine National Agricultural Library, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania, talking about AGORA
• Lucy Waruingi, Head of GIS/ICT, African Conservation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, talking about OARE
• Edna Adan Ismail, Director, Edna Adan Maternity Hospital, Hargeisa, Somaliland, talking about Book Aid International
• Hasina Afroz, Deputy Librarian, Head of Library, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, talking about the Social Science Library
• Ms. Tumurbaatar Naranchimeg, Deputy Director-General, National Information Technology Park, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, talking about the Elsevier Foundation

Access the pamphlet at www.elsevier.com/libraryconnect. Do you need print copies? Write to libraryconnect@elsevier.com.

Upcoming events

Elsevier/ScienceDirect will be present at the following library shows:

American Library Association Annual Conference 2008 in Anaheim, CA, from June 26 - July 2, 2008.

Judy Luther, Informed Strategies moderator for the panel discussion entitled “Making the Switch from Print to Online: Why, When, and How"

Sunday, June 29, 1:30-3:30 - ACC (Anaheim Convention Center), Rm. 204 B

Product: ScienceDirect

Topic: University of Illinois Case Study

Description: Is your library moving from a print based collection to an increasingly online collection? Panellists will examine the issues of switching from print to online from several different viewpoints. Two colleagues, one from a large STM publisher and the other from a university press, will describe the challenges associated with maintaining both print and online formats, and when and under what conditions they would choose to provide e-only. Two librarians will discuss the issues and decision-making strategies associated with dropping print and moving to e-only.

World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council in Québec from August 10 - 14 2008.

ALIA 2008 Biennial Conference in Alice Springs, Australia from September 2 - 5 2008

Scirus appoints Topic Pages subject editors

The Scirus team is in the process at appointing 12 subject editors to moderate and advise on the evolution of the Topic Pages ecosystem.

Biographical details for the first three Topic Pages subject editors are available on the Scirus Info site. Biographies on the others will be added in the coming weeks.

Scirus Topic Pages development

Scirus Topic Pages is quickly becoming a topic-centered communication and collaboration platform for scientists. During the latest development period, support for the following features was implemented:

• Author/member comments will appear in their personal profiles - Each author and each member has a personal profile page, with information on their research interests, their affiliation and possibly a picture. As it is now possible to comment on Topic Pages, the comments that an author or a member makes on any Topic Page will be visible on this personal profile page as well.

• Subject classification - Authors are asked to give their Topic Page a subject classification. In a later stage it will become possible to search on Topic Pages in a particular subject area, and this is the first step towards that. The classification also allows people to subscribe to an RSS feed per subject area (see next item).

• RSS feed of Topic Pages - It is now possible to be kept up to date with all the new Topic Pages that are published by subscribing to the RSS feed. It is possible to subscribe to updates in all subject areas or a particular subject area.

• Publication list on profile page using Scopus ID - The publication list of an author or member can now be easily added to their public profile page by using their Scopus ID. As the Scopus ID is stored, the publication list will be kept up to date with any new publications by the author or member.

For more information on Scirus Topic Pages see the Scirus Info site.

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