SpringerImages

2010ICSTI Conference, Moscow November 2010

Elwin Gardeur

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Agenda

•About SpringerImages

•Getting started with SpringerImages

•Browsing content

•Searching

•Personalization features

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What is SpringerImages?

• A database of over 2.8 million images and associated pieces of full-text from

Springer publications and third-party scientific image sources Images

• Images include: drawings, photos, tables, charts, etc.

biology image library

Springer Journals

Springer Books

Open Access

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About SpringerImages

• 2.8 million+ scientific, technical and medical images

–Images: photos, graphs, histograms, figures, tables and video’s

• Constantly growing database

• Variety of sources: SpringerLink, SpringerProtocols, images.MD,

and more

• Peer-reviewed, trusted sources

• Unlimited concurrent users

• Availability: Entire collection or Medical and Life Sciences

• Permission to use images for personal, non-commercial use

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Getting started with

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When you are looking to:

• Use images to quickly update lectures or presentations.

• Get a refined and relevant list of results quickly when searching for pertinent

pieces of information in a vast quantity.

• Use easily customized searches tailored to individual needs, such as comparison

of research results or sharing keywords with other users to optimize the search

• Quickly understand the context of an image, dramatically reducing the time

needed to review literature

• Easily jump to the source to confirm the context and retrieve further information

When to use SpringerImages?

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Logging in• Log in and register

at top of homepage

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Help screens

• Help is at the top of

each page

• Here you can find

FAQs, contact

information for tech

support, and more

• You can also

manage your

account

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Setting up an account

•Register for an account

by clicking at the top of

any page

•Setting up an account

requires creating a

username and password

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Managing an account

•Access your account

information by clicking

“MY ACCOUNT”

•Edit Account

•My Image Sets

•Saved Search Results

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Browsing content

Content may

be browsed:

•By subject

•By source

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On image page,

users can view:

•Image

•Caption

Image page

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On image page,

users can view:

•Image

•Caption

•Description

•Image source

details

•Copyright

information

Image page

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Also on the image

page, users can:

•Share

•Save to image set

Image page

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Searching SpringerImages

The basic search

feature is at the

top of the home

page

From the drop

down, you can

select searching

image captions or

full-text

Let’s try by searching for genome

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Searching SpringerImages Results appear in center

•From here, users

may with one click

browse these

results:

•By subject

•By source

•Users can also

search for specific

image types

Users may also sort

results by relevance

or by newest/oldest

Or save search

results for later

human

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Searching SpringerImages Results appear in center

•By refining the

search, we’ve

narrowed our search

results.

•We can remove the

filters from the

search results

Users may also find more options with an

Advanced Search

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Advanced search

“Show Advanced

Options” brings

up this drop box

with options

Users may fill in

as many or as

few of these

options as they

wish

Clicking on a

magnifying glass

brings up a list of

options to choose

from

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Personalization of

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My ImagesMy Images can be

viewed by selecting

link at top

Like search results,

they can be filtered

with the options on

the left

Users can also

export all images in

an Image Set into

either PowerPoint

or PDF

Click for PowerPoint example

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Thank you!

Elwin Gardeur

Licensing Manager Sales

Springer Science+Business Media

Corporate library Sales Benelux, Eastern Europe & Israel/New Business ROW

tel.   +31 (0)78 657 67 37

mob. +31 (0)6 460 463 85

Elwin.gardeur@springer.com