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A la nota de sota, entre d'altres informacions d'aquest editor, teniu més dades sobre aquest canvi i també sobre webinars en línia que han preparat per explicar les característiques de la nova interfície SpringerLink.
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eProduct eNewsletter, September 2010 |
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Visit us at springer.com |
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| Welcome to the eProducts Newsletter from Springer! |
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| This bi-monthly newsletter will provide you with information and updates related to Springer’s eProducts. We hope you find this information useful and interesting. Should you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact us at libraryrelations@springer.com. |
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| SpringerLink |
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| New SpringerLink platform has launched! |
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| On 7 August the new SpringerLink platform was successfully launched with only a minimal 17 minutes of downtime. While the new site is now fully live, there will be continuous debugging and enhancements added in the coming weeks and months. These include the language interface translations and downloadable lists. There will also be additional updates to the eReferences and ongoing upgrades to increase the performance and speed of the site. We trust that you will enjoy using the new platform and will find it intuitive to use. |
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Should you have any difficulties with the site, we have two teams to best service your needs.
1. For any issues related to access or accounts, please contact springerlink@springer.com. |
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| 2. For any issues related to functionality and development, please contact support.springerlink@springer.com. |
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| SpringerLink Trainings & Webinars |
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| A new series of SpringerLink training webinars has been posted to springer.com/librarians. You will notice that there are online sessions planned up through October. Future sessions will be scheduled as the end of the year approaches. Also on this page are pre-recorded training sessions in Spanish and German. We are working to expand this collection to include pre-recorded trainings in English, French and Italian. If you have other training needs, please contact your Springer sales representative. |
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| Disability Compliancy |
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| The new site is accessible to people with disabilities in compliance with Section 508 from the US Department of Education. As a result none of the links on the site will open up in a new window. |
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| eBooks |
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The ‘big deal’ approach to acquiring e-books:
a usage-based study |
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As part of its acquisition of the 2010 Springer e-book collections, University of Liverpool Library agreed to partner with Springer to study how e-books were being used and received, through a three-part project: analysis of usage reports, an extensive online user survey, and through focus groups. This article reports on the first part of this study – the analysis of usage reports.
The paper presents an analysis of COUNTER e-book usage reports for SpringerLink e-book collections purchased since July 2008 at the University. The usage reports were augmented with contextual title-level information drawn from Springer's eBooks Title List. The combined data was used to study how usage of e-books is influenced by factors such as the subject area, the year of publication and the length of time since the collection was acquired.
Analysis was performed to simulate the effects of user-driven purchasing to determine whether this model could apply to this type of content. The study concludes that this ‘big deal’ approach has worked well: all but one of the subject areas have been well used, the number of unused titles continues to diminish each year, older titles continue to attract significant usage, and the cost-per-use is relatively low. The challenge remains to find pricing models that allow more libraries to acquire e-book collections when budgets may be largely committed to journals. |
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| For further information and to read the report (published open access in Serials) in full, please visit the following website. |
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| MyCopy Update: |
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• Currently over 16.000 titles are available as MyCopy on Springerlink.com.
• Number of pages of MyCopy books has been increased from 832 to 1.200 pages. |
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| SpringerOpen |
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SpringerOpen is a new product line of fully open access journals and has been launched at ALA in June.
The entire content of our e-only SpringerOpen journals is fully and immediately open access, and is accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
The copyright of SpringerOpen articles remains with the authors and all articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution license. As no subscriptions are required to read these journals, the author is asked to pay an article-processing charge, which will range between 800 and 1,300 EUR.
Following the success of BioMed Central’s journals and powered by the BioMed Central platform, the first journals are now open for submission. SpringerOpen aims to give authors in all areas of science the opportunity to publish open access.
For more information a list of forthcoming titles and submissions, please visit www.springeropen.com. |
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| For questions, please contact info@springeropen.com. |
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| SpringerImages |
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| SpringerImages: 2.5 Million Images! |
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| In just over a year SpringerImages has amassed a collection of over 2.5 million total images. With a launch collection size of 1.5 million, the image database has increased by over 66%. Contributing to the sharp increase are images from various collections including those from images.MD. |
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