World Scientific Journals & eBooksLund Online 2011

Paul Calow, Sales DirectorBurgundy Information Services Ltd (World Scientific Distributor)

What am I going to talk about?

About World Scientific

Established with the support of two Asian Nobel Laureates, C.N.Yang and A.Salam, in 1981

One of the largest independent STM publishers in the world and the largest in Asia-Pacific(Managed by publishers and academics, not financial investors)

HQ in Singapore with Editiorial/Sales offices around the world inc. UK and US

>110 journals (>20,000 circulation) >7,000 books (>300 published each

year) Publish across a broad range of

disciplines

(Physical Sciences & Mathematics titles are some of the best among all publishers in these areas)

Chen Ning Yang1957 Nobel Laureate

Abdus Salam1979 Nobel Laureate

World Scientific and its imprints are known to publish titles by prominent scientists, many of which are Nobel Laureates.

Authors and Contributors

A few examples include:

Yoichiro Nambu (2008)Osamu Shimomura (2008)Ahmed Zewail (1999)Martinus J. G. Veltman (1999)Gerardus 't Hooft (1999)Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1991)Abdus Salam (1979)Philip W. Anderson (1977)Chen Ning Yang (1957)

Among World Scientific’s notable successes was being awarded the exclusive rights in 1991 by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm to publish the entire series of Nobel Lectures.

Alfred Nobel Nobel Prize Ceremony Nobel Lectures (1996-2000)

Partnerships: The Nobel Foundation

In 1995, Imperial College Press was founded as a collaboration between Imperial College London and World Scientific.

The imprint has since published >600 books, 5 journals, and is one of the few successful, self-sustaining university presses worldwide.

Partnerships: Imperial College London

Global distributor for Mathematical Society of Japan

First academic society in Japan - founded in 1877

>5,000 members Japanese Journal of

Mathematics launched in 1924

Partnerships: Mathematical Society of Japan

World Scientific eJournals

Contributors include:

Stephen SmaleWolf’s Prize Winner 2007

George F Smoot Nobel Prize Winner 2006

Terence CaoFields Medalist 2006

Frank WilczekNobel Prize Winner 2004

Wolfgang KetterleNobel Prize Winner 2001

And many more…

>110 journals, >7,000 articles per year

Subscribe to collections or single titles Collections by subject Broad range of subjects covered Publishing in new/important/emerging

disciplines: Climate Change Economics Machine Consciousness Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines Middle East Development Adaptive Data Analysis Discrete Mathematics & Applications

Unlimited simultaneous user access 60% of titles indexed by ISI Abstracting metadata sent to Scopus,

OCLC, GoogleScholar, Swets, Ebsco etc.

World Scientific eBooks >500,000 pages of content >300 titles added yearly Purchase packages or single titles Packages by subject or by year One-time purchase only Unlimited simultaneous user access Free Marc Records (inc. ToCs) New editions treated as new books PDF files that are downloaded at the

chapter level.

No special software required No print/copy restrictions Download complete book to local

server Can be used on pdf compatible e-

readers

World Scientific eArchives

Launched in 2005 Abstracts and full-text from 1973 Currently >30,000 articles from >60 journals available Purchase subject collections or single titles

Physics Mathematics Computer Science Engineering Medical and Life Sciences Economics, Finance and Management Nonlinear Science Materials Science

One-time perpetual access fee or “leased” subscription

Existing Subscribers in Sweden/Denmark

AALBORG HOSPITAL AALBORG UNIVERSITY DHI WATER & ENVIRONMENT NIELS BOHR INSTITUTE TECHNICAL UNIV OF DENMARK UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK

CHALMERS UNIV OF TECHNOLOGY HANDELSBANKEN MARKETS JONKOPING UNIVERSITY LINKOPING UNIVERSITY LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY LULEA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY LUND UNIVERSITY MALARDALEN UNIVERSITY MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY OREBRO UNIVERSITY ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH SWEDISH HERBAL INSTITUTE (SHI) SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITETSSJUKHUSET HAND-OCH PLASTIKKIR KLIN UNIVERSITY OF SKOVDE UPPSALA UNIVERSITY

All World Scientific e-content >110 ejournals >3,000 ebooks Journal Archives Portico Member ILL/Course packs/Walk-in

users Supply metadata to

Summon and Ebsco Discovery Services and to Primo very soon

Data-mining at abstract level only

✘ No COUNTER compliance

✘ No dedicated library admin area

✘ No cross-searching

http://www.worldscinet.com/

New platform launching in 2011 (August-December?):

Atypon technology – same as ACS, IEEE, OUP, T&F etc…

Improved user interface Increased visibility of

content Improved integration with

federated search systems Improved

searching/browsing across all product types

Dedicated library admin area

COUNTER compliant usage data

Metadata feed to Primo Central

What’s new for 2011?

What’s new for 2011?

Useful Links

“Navigating WorldSciNet” User Guidehttp://www.worldscinet.com/librarians/navigating.pdf

eJournal Price Listhttp://www.worldscinet.com/journal_prices2011.xls

eBook Price Listhttp://ebooks.worldscinet.com/profiles/price_list.xls

eArchive Price Listhttp://www.worldscinetarchives.com/prices.shtml

eJournal Access Portalhttp://www.worldscinet.com/

eBook Access Portalhttp://ebooks.worldscinet.com/

eArchive Access Portalhttp://archives.worldscinet.com/

Thank you!

Paul Calow, Sales Director

Burgundy Information Services Ltd (World Scientific Distributor)

paul@burgundyservices.com

Questions? Comments?