Consultants Who CanConsultants Who Can

Judy LutherInformed StrategiesASIDIC Fall Meeting

September 2007

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Morgan & Claypool

Synthesis Digital Library:

Engineering & Computer Science

www.morganclaypool.com

Short books 50-100 pages (ISBN)Organized in series (ISSN)Sold in collections

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Synthesis Digital Library

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Synthesis Series Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Biomedical Engineering Computer Architecture Communications Circuits & Systems Electromagnetics & Antennas Energy Environmental Science Computer Graphics & Animation General Engineering & Technology Information Security Mobile & Pervasive Computing Materials & Devices Measurement & Instrumentation Power Electronics RF/Microwaves Computer Science (General) Signal Processing Technology, Management, & Entrepreneurship

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Business Model

Packaged for institutionsCollections to Academic LibrariesSeries to Corporate Libraries

Sold by title to individuals From websiteVia Amazon

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Terms

PDF owned by libraryPriced FTE EngineeringUnlimited usePrint available

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Developmental Partner Program

Coordination – single point of contact Program topics

Provide feedback on acquisitions & pricing model Confirm access points Share user communications Comment on system features

Participants 20 North America, 5 International

Communication Listserv – monthly discussions Annual meetings: ASEE, SLA

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Meta Data

Google A&I services

INSPEC & EI MARC records

OCLC & direct Creation & distribution Integrating resource

Meta search Export metadata

DOI

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Success Factors

No legacy constraintsUser designed productReceptive marketContent backgroundLong term view