Referex Engineering
工程电子参考书
Presented by: 钟似璇
Title: Ei中国代表
Date: May 19th , 2004
电子书的背景
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七十年代初期电子书出现
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全是文字，存在大型计算机内
相隔了20多年后，随着高科技的发展
电子书开始成气候
近几年电子书开始在STM（科计医）
范围里有起色
不少科技出版社，包括 NetLibrary,
Knovel, McGraw-Hill, CRC Press,
Pearson (Safari)都加入到行列
EV2平台
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Engineering Village 2 在工科范围内有
领先地位
Compendex, Inspec, NTIS etc.已经被
广大用户熟悉，广泛应用
用户希望在一个平台上得到更多与工
程相关的信息
基本参数
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Referex Engineering将成为既有深度
又有广度的工科参考书籍源
Engineering Village 2的检索工具
350本工科参考书
3个种类
3 Referex Engineering Collections
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3个种类
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Mechanical and Materials 机械、材料
Electronic and Electrical 电子、电工
Chemical Petrochemical and Process
化工、石化、工艺
Key Publishing Clusters
我们的强项:
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Electrical Engineering 电工
Mechanical Engineering 机械工程
Materials & Design 材料和设计
Industrial Engineering 工业工程
Health & Safety 保健安全
Chemical/Process Engineering 化工、工艺
Petroleum Engineering 石油
Environmental Engineering & Energy 环境和能源
Biomedical Engineering 生物医学
最畅销书
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Kaminow, Optical Fiber Telecommunications IV
• Optical Fiber Telecommunications – IVA
& IVB, Kaminow
• Audience: Professionals in fiber optics,
telecommunications, and electrical
engineering
• Covers latest applications and
developments in light wave
communication.
• Kaminow, former Head of Broadband
Networks for AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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Power Electronics Handbook
1000 pages of focused reference for all
Electronic & Electrical Engineers
Strong clustering with Newnes list,
including Power Engineering Series
(editor Tim Miller)
Relevant to all electronics engineering
applications
Rashid has best selling Power
Engineering text with Prentice Hall
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Jack, Video Demystified 4/e
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The bestselling,
best-known book on
digital video –
35,000+ copies in
print
Technology
advances in video
over networks,
wireless, broadcast,
on-demand etc.,
driving huge market
growth
Boyes, Instrumentation Reference Book 3ed
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Comprehensive and
authoritative collection
for instrumentation,
automation and control
engineers, technicians
and users
Edited by Walt Boyes,
ISA publications
committee chairman
The only rival to the
legendary Liptak (3
volumes)
Valkenburg, Reference Data for Engineers 9ed
10,000+ copies of 8/ed sold
All professional Electrical
Engineers, students and
technicians need this data.
Previously known and written
as the ITT Engineers
Handbook, published by
SAMS.
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Ridley & Channing, Safety at Work 6/e
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The definitive
reference on H&S
regulations &
practice
Long history in prior
editions as a
bestseller – 1500+
copies per year!
Ratner et al., Biomaterials Science
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World’s leading experts
are editors and
contributors
The only single-volume
comprehensive yet
accessible guide to this
hottest of topics
Ideal text and reference
book
12,000+ copies LOT
1,701 units in 2003
Z&T, The Finite Element Method, 5ed
Probably the best known
book on the subject in the
world
All professional
Mechanical & Civil
Engineers and students
need to know this analysis
technique.
Zienkiewicz – the inventor,
and ‘Father’ of the Finite
Element Method.
Taylor – Berkeley chair in
ME
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Pumping Station Design 2ed
The best-known and
respected book in its
field: 3859 copies, $500k+
sales LTD
Provides the only realworld design guide to
pumping stations needed
for every municipal
authority in the US
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Mobley, Plant Engineers Handbook
All professional engineers,
technicians and managers
in any manufacturing or
maintenance facility need
this book.
R. Keith Mobley – industry
guru and editor for Plant
Services magazine.
Monthly column.
Sponsored by Plant
Engineering magazine –
125,000 circulation.
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MacAllister, Pipeline Rules of Thumb,
5e
•The must-have, can’t
replace, can’t do without
reference for professional
pipeline engineers,
designers and drafters
•The pipeline industry’s top
reference work – 20,000
copies in print
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Lyons, Standard Handbook of Petroleum &
Natural Gas Engineering, 2/e
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The most
comprehensive industry
reference in the world –
1300+ pages, 20+
chapters.
The Bible for PE’s and
for anyone in the fastgrowing natural gas
market
Branan, Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers
2ed
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Chemical and Process
Engineering audience
Hundreds of common
sense techniques,
shortcuts and
calculations in onestop resource
Carl Branan - decades
of experience in the
chemcial and petroindustries
Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
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3 Volumes, 4000+ pages
Franks Lees’ unrivaled
bible for the process
industries
No process engineer in
the petrochemical,
plastics, food, pharma,
biotech industries can
afford not to have
access to this book
The price of safety?
This book or another
Bhopal…
Product basics
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Integrated within the Engineering Village
2 interface
Provides basic searching and browsing
capabilities for discovering titles
Linking to PDFs
Access to PDF by subscription only
Functionality – Searching
eBooks search tab
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Select collections
Keyword search of full text
Metadata search (ISBN, Title, Author,
Publisher)
Collection browse of book titles
Subject browse of book titles
Referex search
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Functionality – Search results
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Keyword search
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Metadata search or collection/subject browsing
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Searches full text of eBook
Returns relevant chapters, sections, parts of eBook in citation
format
Full text links to view sections and eBook
Searches specific index of ISBN, publisher, title, author,
collection, or subject
Returns book titles by latest publication order in citation
format
Full text links to view eBook or buy eBook
Keyword search results
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Metadata or browse results
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Book description record
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Planned enhancements
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Search Referex and Compendex,
Inspec, NTIS together
New search refinement features
“Find related” search
Relevancy enhancements
Integration of CRC as EV2 content
Competition – 2 basic business
models
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Database license
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Title purchase
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Customers pay an annual fee to access a
defined collection of titles
No permanent archive
No ability to mix and match titles differs
Customers pay on a title by title basis
Title rights are retained for perpetuity
May be limits on simultaneous title use
Several shades of gray in between
Each model reflects the economics of the
book business
Referex Business model
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Subscribers license the collections under a
database subscription model
Collections are not flexible
License provides unlimited access to titles for a
12 month period
No ownership or archival rights are granted
Subscription must be renewed on an annual basis
Subscription ‘lives’ on Engineering Village 2
Non-EV2 subscribers can subscribe to Referex
and be given access to only Referex content
sources
Update model
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New titles will be added to collections
2X per year
Titles will ‘fit’ the existing collection
make-up (subject)
Expect 10-15 new titles in each
collection over a 12 month period
Pricing
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Collections priced individually
Academic and Corporate prices
No relationship to print prices
Academic
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Corporate
Population Band Price
Population Band Price
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100 $1,500
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25,000 $2,000
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500 $2,000
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Point of comparison
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If a library were to purchase each title
individually:
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Single user access
No full-text searching
No edition updates
$40K + price tag
Offering competitively priced
More Product Information
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Full title list
Download-able fact sheets
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