1. What’s Changing, What’s New? Eric Pepper SPIE Director of Publications

2. SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
Founded in 1955
Serving more than 225,000 engineers and scientists in 150 countries
Organizes and sponsors 25 major conferences, exhibitions, and education programs yearly
~$2.5 million in scholarships, grants, and educational support around the world (2011)

3. New website on Silverchair SCM6 platform

4. Why Silverchair? Semantic capabilities
Robust technology architecture and systems
Agile and forward-looking
Talented people
Compatible vision

5. Additional Content
40,000 additional articles published from in Proceedings of SPIE and Optical Engineering — extending coverage for both back to Volume 1

6. Semantic Search and Discovery
4000+ term optics and photonics taxonomy
130+ Topical Collections
Search results filtering by topic
Related articles discovery via semantic association
Enhanced search and browse
Topic Collection alerts

7. Topic Collections
14 topic collections with related subcategories, based on new optics and photonics taxonomy.

8. Semantic Search
Filter search results by topic category, publication type,
or date

9. Content Discovery Related articles based on common taxon assignment.
Links to author profiles and author’s other publications

10. Author Profiles
Author profiles include SPIE publications, technical activities, bios, etc.

11. New Journal Article Display
For journal articles published since 2001,
full text rendered on the article page for authenticated users.

12. Enlarge, save, and download figures and tables to .PPT

13. eBooks
163 eBooks now in collection with new titles added each year. iOS and Android apps developed for Field Guide to Geometrical Optics.

14. Mobile Access
Users have mobile access via their institution’s subscription.
Create personal SDL account.
Log in to SDL while on institution’s network using any device.
User log-in credentials associated with institution’s subscription.
Access SDL from anywhere on mobile device with log-in.

15. Multimedia
Selected conference audio/.PPT presentations in addition to integral multimedia for journal and proceedings articles.

16. Personalization
Users can save figures and tables, manage alerts, view subscriptions, customize page display, and activate mobile access by creating a personal login.

17. Resources for Librarians
Includes links to SiteMaster admin site, announce-
ments, SPIE contact information, training and promotional resources, etc.

18. COUNTER Reports
Legacy COUNTER reports from 2005 – July 2012 will also be available on SiteMaster.

19. SiteMaster Librarian Admin Site
Access COUNTER reports, manage passwords, view subscription details.

21. Our Vision
By listening to researchers and librarians, tracking new technologies, and seeking ways to better serve our technical communities, we have identified opportunities to enrich and enhance the SPIE Digital Library:
Educational materials
Deeper XML and taxonomic tagging for connecting information
Related content such as patents, supplemental data and images, links to other highly relevant content
Mobile access and interaction at conferences
Multimedia

22. SPIE’s New “Gold” Open Access Program
Starting January 2013, immediate “gold” OA for journal authors paying voluntary page charges
$100/page (8 pg avg); less than most other journals
Authors can publish without paying page charges
Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license
Non-OA papers and backfile require subscription
Copyediting and typesetting included
Preprints of accepted articles coming in 2013
Subscription prices reduced as OA adoption grows
Journals with ~80-90% OA adoption by authors become fully open access, full backfile made free.

23. Contact Us
Content and Product development Eric Pepper: Sales and licensing Marybeth Manning: Robert Dentel (N. America): Promotion and training Allison Romanyshyn: Customer support (North America) (Rest of World)