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A&I Databases as Starting Points for Providing Solutions for the

Academic and Research Communities

Jack O’TooleSenior Director, Emerging Markets

Engineering Information, Inc.

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Modern Publishing Process

Distribution

Cataloging

Abstracting

Acceptance

Production

Publication

Submission

Peer review

Revision

Paper creation

Informal peer review

Proposal

Experiment

Results

Author web sitePreprintServer

Preview E.journals

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•Publisher sends print issues to Ei Hoboken

–Ei forwards photocopies to indexers at Philippines

•Indexer keys abstracts and adds index terms

–Indexer sends electronic abstracts to Ei

•Ei puts e-abstracts on tape/ftp and CPX-Web

•Time production process: 3 - 6 weeks

Production Process COMPENDEX

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Traditional Currency Pattern

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 months

20%

10%

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Future Production Process

Electronic.Abstract

Indexing

Web presence of abstract in CPX

COMPENDEX

PaperAbstract

WWW

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Article Relations

ScientificArticle

Citation

Related Data

Related article

Cited by

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CPX and the Future•Goal: CPX as starting point for discovery

•Requires:

Timeliness: through e-flow

Accuracy: through e-flow

Coverage: through e-flow plus...

Connectivity (linking to other content) ...

Intelligence (add value to content) ...

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Coverage

•E-flow provides:

–easy access to more journals

–easy access to all articles therein

•Add other content types:

–books, and pre-prints

–authors send in abstracts

–creation of “CPX-timely”

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Author version preprint preview publication

CPX timely………………………………………….CPX

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•Create links to other content

–full text, patents, standards, regulations

–company web sites, products, databases

•Requires meaningful tagging:

–company names, products, compounds, …

–used in automatic link construction

•Possibly start using XML

Connectivity & Tagging

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Intelligence

•Invest in manual content enrichment (indexing)

•Examples:

–tag compounds with their roles

–add problem and solution per article

–continue to improve thesaurus

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Interlinked

&

Searchable VILLAGE 2

Full text EngDirect/others

Consulting/ Expert Services

People

News

Compendex

Web Abstracts

Patents

Standards

Products

VILLAGE 1

Engineering Direct

Compendex

Web Abstracts Consulting

Databases

Overview info

Village 1To ……….Village 2