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Knovel Product Update
Lodz 2010 updates
Barbara Dixee, Director of Academic Sales
Content Highlights of 2009
Deployed 3 new products
Increased content production 33% over 2008
Increased interactive object production over 350% over 2008. Users will be able to leverage interactive graphs, tables – and live equations
Added more than 20 publishers and society partners
Formed Editorial Advisory Board and Reviewer System
Created Engineering Cases series
Twenty New Publishing Partners
DEStech
MIT Press
New Subject Areas
Industrial Engineering & Operations Mgmt
For Engineering leadership: Risk assessment, risk control, business process improvement
For Engineers: Remediation in all aspects of project management.
New Publishers: DesTech, Project Management Institute, AMACOM.
Transportation Engineering
Covers topics for planning, functional design, implementation of transportation systems and infrastructure
Key Publishers: AASHTO, Transportation Research Board, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, Elsevier
New Subject Areas continued
Nanotechnology
Focus: Information on nanomaterials, their properties data from the major publishers; “recipes” for fabrication and manufacturing techniques
Publishers: Wiley, Springer, Royal Society of Chemistry, Woodhead, World Scientific
Themes of 2009
Proactive content development
Proactive content additions and product development based on engineering expertise and real opinions from the trenches
Industry-specific brand names engineers trust
Increased cache by adding societies and smaller industry-specific publishers
Deeper content for existing collections
Many more green fields within our existing content collections. Deeper information about specific topics that users have questions about today
Editorial Advisory Board
Industry experts and academic leaders work with us to develop content strategy and prioritize new opportunities
Subject Matter Expert Review
Engineers in the field review content collections on an ongoing basis. Make recommendations based on the information needs in their work and their experience. We welcome recommendations from your faculty
Listening to Customers
Knovel’s customer service is considered top notch
Content Growth & Selection Process
Engineering Cases
New series designed to add another facet – real user experience – to referential content
Format: Case studies which describe innovative solutions for usual or unusual projects
Value-add to your subscription (eg, no additional cost)
Benefits
- SEO, additional hits to Knovel, freely available, published monthly
- Digestible content that gives additional context to lectures
Topics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Sustainable Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
What is ASM International?
Society dedicated to serving those working in materials science and engineering professions
36,000 members worldwide with six societies under ASM umbrella
- Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society
- Heat Treating Society
- International Metallographic Society
- Thermal Spray Society
- International Organization on Shape Memory and Superelastic Technologies
- Society of Carbide and Tool Engineers
Publisher of materials information from structural to nanolevel including renown handbooks, datasets, and atlases. The ASM Handbooks are recognized as the Bible in materials science
Broad appeal for their content – anyone working in materials
ASM Materials Collection
Must-have content from the leading materials society, paired with Knovel’s powerful search and data analytical tools
Content is a great addition to the existing collection of materials information on Knovel. Top societies and publishers like NACE, ASTM and the Battelle Memorial Institute
ASM Premium Content is the exclusive licensee of this premium content. ASM content is not included within any of the ebook aggregators and it is not within the publisher-owned products like CRCnetBase or McGraw-Hill’s AccessEngineering.
Launch: Mid-July
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2009 Highlights
- Over 90% renewals
- Knovel User Registration: ~30,000 registered since October
- Product Development fueled by Design Partner Program
- New User Experience
- Knovel Lab
- My Knovel, Admin Toolkit
2010 Opportunities
- Search
- Enhancing User Registration
- Performance
- MARC Records available to everyone – look for announcements soon
- Shibboleth
Product Highlights 2009 and Opportunities 2010
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From Knovel January 2009…..
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To this Knovel … November 2009
MY KNOVEL
• My Bookshelf: save frequently used titles and organize them into folders you create
• My Saved Content: save and organize content into the folders you create
• My Saved Searches: save search queries and re-execute with just one click
• My Web Clips (in Knovel Lab)
2010, Short-term activities
Direct Export to Bibliographic Management Tools
Clip to Knovel
Export Knovel Citations to Bibliographic Management Tools
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Organize information from anywhere on the Web to My Knovel
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Check out Clip to Knovel in Knovel Lab
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Know thy Users.
Our Vision
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Design Partners Observed
What our engineering users care about : Fast[er] access to results
Simple navigation
Don’t give me zero results
More types of content - standards, regulations
Make interactive content more prominent
Show me what I have; don’t tease me with entitlements I can’t have
Let me use Knovel from anywhere
Make My Knovel portable
Help me find and connect to like-minded users to collaborate with
BASED ON USER DATA
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We Listened
Our focus has been redirected in the next 12 months:
faster search
integration into your knowledge repository [Sharepoint]
integration into your federated search
higher quality search results
no zero results
better organization of search results [more prominent interactive tools, materials data, tables etc]
better discoverability [search Google = get Knovel results]
mobile device access
Show me what I can andcannot access
Facets
Replace Adobe Reader; keeping users in the Web = faster, more flexible controls
