An Introduction to Burgundy and our Publishing Partners

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An Introduction to Burgundy and our Publishing Partners

Helen Cooke, Sales Director

CIBER Meeting, Rome

19th November 2008


AgendaBurgundy: who are we?Agent landscapeContent landscape

Engineering/Computer science content- Morgan & Claypool ebooks- ICE Thomas Telford- SPIE Digital Library- CINDAS Aerospace

Medical content- Future Science Group- RMIT

Social Science content- Keesing’s & Newspaper Direct

Questions


Represent a wide range of new, emerging and innovativepublishers: E-Journals, E-Books, Full-Text databases, Datasets

Aid delivery of content across multiple disciplines intoacademic, corporate, government and medical librariesthroughout Europe

Act as single point of contact for librarians across multiple publishers

Subject areas represented include: Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine, History,Sociology & Politics

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Burgundy – who are we?


Publishers that we represent:



Content Landscape?


Engineering, Computer science & Medical e-Resources


- E-books covering important and emerging topics in various subsets of engineering and computer science

- 50-200 page e-books provide concise overviews of emerging fields

- Written by invitation by well known researchers and developers

- More detail and ‘synthesis’ than journal articles but shorter and more dynamic than books

- Peer reviewed

- Awarded Best Reference Work 2008 by American Society for Engineering Education’s Engineering Library Division



Full Online only access to complete archive & Current 19 ICE Proceedings journal content

2 options available:

- Archive (1836-2003)- Complete (1836-2009)

Archive dates from 1836 - 2003Access to 18,000 illustrated papers & 200,000+ pages Search by title, keyword, author, location and dateCOUNTER compliant usage statistics available

Visit: http://www.iceknowledge.com/


- International society with an interdisciplinary approach to science & the application of light

- Most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, electronic imaging and remote sensing

- Access to more than 230,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals & Conference Proceedings

- Delivery platform developed in collaboration with the American Institute of Physics (AIP)

- 1990 to current issue with more than 17,000 new articles added each year

- NEW for 2009! Multimedia (Audio and Video)


- Publish critically evaluated materials properties databases

- Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database (TPMD)

- Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database (MPMD)

- Aerospace Structural Metals Database (ASMD)

- New web-based versions replace older print handbooks and cd-roms

- Search, browse and compare thousands of materials and view results graphically for easier interpretation

- Unique functionality enables users to compare properties of several materials or the same material in its different forms on the same graph (high value functionality)


- Developed in collaboration with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and based on ACM’s 40-year-old paper journal of the same name.

- The leading online review service for books & articles in all areas of computer science

- Expert, unbiased critical reviews of current publications of note in computing

- Overview of developments in computing relevant to both specialists and generalists

- Links to full text thus increasing usage of other resources


- Deliver systematic, authoritative analysis and insightful commentary from international experts

- x19 Expert Review journals

- Coverage of developments in key therapeutic areas and R&D

- High-quality, authoritative reviews on best clinical practice across a broad range of disciplines.

- Publishing at the forefront of novel research technologies and clinical advances

- x20 rigorously peer-reviewed journals

- Focus on post-genomic medicine

- Award winning titles include: Regenerative Medicine, Nanomedicine and Pharmacogenomics


- Informit databases provide access to the vast majority of Australasian scholarly research

- Suppliers to education, research and business sectors throughout the world

- Informit e-Library provides full text, cover-to-cover access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, reports and other research materials in fields of Humanities, Social Science, Business and Engineering

- Informit Plus Text databases combine the authoritative bibliographic information of leading Informit Index databases with full text links to thousands of articles from hundreds of leading Australasian journals in the fields of Education, ANZ/AsiaPacific Law, Public Affairs, Family & Society and Medicine - Meditext

- Unique content compliments other databases

- Provides balance to often Western European and US focused research


Social Science e-Resources


- Keesing's World News Archive Online provides a distillation of World News into easily digestible chunks

- Editorial policy leads to publication of unique, clear, unbiased factual entries presented in an easily accessible form creating an historical record of events that appeals to a broad range of users

- Relevant to studies in History, Sociology, Citizenship, Politics, Law, Media Studies, Journalism and more…

- Archive dates back to 1931 - Fully searchable database with >100,000 reports -- >1,500 articles added each year


- World leader in multi-channel newspaper &magazine content

- Agreements with over 700 newspaper and magazine publishers from 80 countries around the globe

- PressDisplay.com from NewspaperDirect world’s largest online newspaper kiosk

- Instant access to hundreds of newspapers and magazines

- Users can view publications online, download titles for offline viewing & translate articles in up to 12 different languages




Summary- Burgundy and our publishers

- Engineering/Computer science content- Morgan & Claypool ebooks- ICE Thomas Telford- SPIE Digital Library- CINDAS Aerospace

- Medical content- Future Science Group- RMIT

- Social Science content- Keesing’s & Newspaper Direct


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