Wither Scientific Publishing?

Collaborative Innovation, Open Platforms and Personalized Workflow Solutions Has an Answer

Vishal Gupta Elsevier Inc

Director, Developer Network

@Visha1Gupta

Nov 19, 2011

Who we are

• We publish around 2,000 scientific journals and close to

20,000 books and major reference works in STM

(Science, Technology and Medical Sciences).

• We develop online information solutions for over 30

million scientists, professionals and students.

• A global community of 7,000 journal editors, 70,000

editorial board members, 300,000 reviewers and

600,000 authors.

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FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT IN THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE

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“It is not the strongest of

the species that survive,

nor the most intelligent,

but the one most

responsive to change.”

- Charles Darwin

ScienceDirect

Web/Third Party Content

Scopus

SciTopics

APP APP

APP

APP APP

APP

APP APP

APP APP

APP

APP

10 MILLION FULL TEXT ARTICLES

15 THOUSAND E-BOOKS

41 MILLION RECORDS

PAGES WRITTEN BY SCIENTIFIC

EXPERTS ONLY 18 INSTITUTIONS INTL. REPOSITORY

23 MILLION PATENT FILES

300 MILLION WEB PAGES

13 SOURCES SOCIETY

SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND LEARN FROM

OTHERS

Platform as a Service...Platform for innovation

ARTICLE CONTENT

AUTHOR DATA

ABSTRACTS AFFILIATION DATA

Collaborating with scientific community, developers and researchers...

CONTENT

…to develop domain specific workflow tools and improve our agility in responding to customer needs

Developers, developers, developers,...........

forum for idea exchange

Creating Apps integrated across different products

Hub results page 1

Scopus abstract page 2

ScienceDirect article page 3

ScienceDirect results page 4

Open to 3rd party innovations

Contextual information

User experience enriched with apps

seamless integration with the product

Enriched content

Unique engaging experience

bring agility to product development to respond to end user needs

from concept to release 24 hours

Apps Mean Customized Experiences

Subject Specificity-Customized Experience

In discussions

Under development

Existing Partners

Collaboration with scientific community

NONE OF US

IS AS SMART

AS ALL OF US

Across Global Boundaries

Global Application Challenge

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“The Elsevier hackathon is the kind of challenging practical real-world collaborative programming experience we like to provide to students to augment the concepts that we teach in the classroom” -Narain Gehani Dean College of Computer Sciences, NJIT

With the Students…Developer Hack Event at NJIT

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Hackathon