1 ScienceDirect Goes beyond search to research Genevieve Musasa - Customer Consultant Africa G.musasa@elsevier.com Stefan Blanché -Your Account Manager S.Blanche@elsevier.com April 2015
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5 Facts ScienceDirect: is a full-text online database offering scientific, technical and medical (STM) journal articles and book chapters is Elsevier s Peer-reviewed full-text content database contains nearly 13 million pieces of content: peer reviewed articles in more than 2,500 journals and more than 26,000 books across 24 subject areas contains more than 1,600 journals in Open Access with Backfiles (digital archives) dating back to 1823 (start date depending of your agreement)
Share of Journal Article Published TITLE OF PRESENTATION 6 Others Autres 26% Elsevier 25% When using ScienceDirect, Wiley-Blackwell you get access to nearly ¼ of the peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical content published worldwide APS IOP IEEE Taylor & Francis AIP ACS Wolters Kluwer Springer
7 Multidisciplinary database: 24 subject areas http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/sciencedirect/journals#journal-title-lists
8 In context 15 million researchers worldwide have access to ScienceDirect At peak hours almost 5,000 researchers are online simultaneously 36 full text downloads every second during an average working day In 2013 over 485 Million full text articles were downloaded in total
ScienceDirect: Empowering researchers at every step
10 10 We consistently hear from researchers the challenge they have with managing information I need to keep up to date with the research in my field and have a hard time feeling confident that I am There is just so much information available nowadays, and I don t have the time to go through all of it to find what s relevant I need to collaborate with other researchers In an already busy work day, I need to find the relevant research at the right time Source: Qualitative survey results value of ScienceDirect A&G Researchers June 2014
11 11 11 They are looking for a tool that will address multiple needs Help me to discover the relevant information Keep me informed of the latest developments and news Give me access to the detail Make the process quick and easy Source: Qualitative survey results value of ScienceDirect A&G Researchers June 2014
Mapping these needs against what ScienceDirect offers, we see 6 principles emerge of how ScienceDirect is poised to empower researchers TITLE OF PRESENTATION 12 12 12 SIMPLE COMPREHENSIVE ACCESSIBLE Easy to use and navigate both within the product and on 3rd party platforms Optimized article layout including article outline Intuitive and clean Interoperability of ScienceDirect with other research tools Breadth of content A single platform to access high quality books and journal content, covering a multitude of research disciplines Over 2,500 journals and 26,000 books and close to 13M articles Easy to retrieve and available Immediate full text access Mobile enhanced, high level of web accessibility Remote access Open Access Optimised discoverability through partnerships with 3rd party platforms Option to share customer holding information CURRENT SMART COLLABORATIVE Staying up to date Extracting key insights Storing, sharing & discussing Articles in Press Alerts & RSS Feeds Top 25 hottest articles Recommendations for other articles or chapters of interest Articles and references enhanced with Scopus information Visualisation tools Image searching Mendeley RefWorks
13 13 Personalized tools available to: Organize - Track - Share Print any article using PDF format 3 types of alerts (email notification) 100 recommended articles in one click Image search Citation count and sources Multimedia embedded in articles Mendeley & Scopus Incorporation Article in press
ScienceDirect usage increased by 10% in 2014 TITLE OF PRESENTATION 14 14 There is a strong correlation between the use of scholarly content and research productivity, so an increased usage is potentially having an impact on driving publications and citations. Better speed of ScienceDirect also means the researcher can work more efficiently and effectively, ultimately also contributing to their overall success. Better links in Google Scholar : full-text from ScienceDirect on the search results page of Google Scholar Streamlining the article page based on behavioral data Better quality service :continually decreasing the amount of bugs and defects in ScienceDirect Speed : 10% faster by end of 2014 than end of 2013! More availability: reduction of the downtime Mobile website development: lot more developments in 2015! Further Mendeley integration
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54 54 Fig. 3 Rolling variance decomposition for bank holding companies. This figure presents the rolling variance decomposition for the value-weighted bank portfolio with an estimation window of 36 months. The sum of the banking-industry risk factors explanator... Wolfgang Bessler, Philipp Kurmann, Tom Nohel Time-varying systematic and idiosyncratic risk exposures of US bank holding companies Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Volume 35, 2015, 45-68 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2014.11.009
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Additional help Elsevier s dedicated information center for ScienceDirect http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/sciencedirect Also, through TITLE OF PRESENTATION 61 61
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63 63 Thank you! Questions? G.Musasa@elsevier.com S.Blanche@elsevier.com