Introduction to IEEE Publishing Region 10 Meeting Adelaide, Australia April 16, 2004 Michael Lightner IEEE Vice President, Publication Services & Products Anthony Durniak Staff Executive, Publications

Slide 2 Our mission for IEEE Publications is: Information Driving Innovation

Slide 3 Our mission for IEEE Publications is: Information Driving Innovation This means we aren’t producing journals, magazines, books, conference proceedings, or online databases We’re helping to invent tomorrow’s technologies

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Slide 7 IEEE’s Been Successful In Publishing: Pub Revenue Is Up 58% In 5 Years Total IEEE Revenue from Publishing: Society Periodicals, Bookbroker, Packaged Products, Standards, IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Press, etc.

Slide 8 As A Result, Pubs Is An Important Part of Overall IEEE Revenue 15%19% 25% 41% 24% 6% 17% 53% 1997 $185 Million 2002 $212 Million

Slide 9 IEEE’s Units Publish A Wide Variety Of Technical Material  85 Transactions & Journals  31 Specialized Magazines  350 Conference Proceedings Annually  Books each year  31 newsletters  IEEE Spectrum  The Institute  Proceedings of the IEEE Note: 2002 Title list

Slide 10 IEEE In Total Is Publishing More Than Ever

Slide 11 5 Years Ago, IEEE Pub Revenue Was Mostly Print $69 million was print and $7 million was CD-ROM 1997

Slide 12 Today, Electronic Is The Biggest Single Part Of IEEE Pub Revenue $71 million is print, $46 million is online and $3 million is CD-ROM 2002

Over 750 Institutions Subscribe To Online Products Through IEEE Xplore  International Corporations  Agere, Agilent, Alcatel, BAE Systems, Boeing, GE, Hitachi, Hynix, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Marconi, Matsushita, Motorola, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, NEC, Nortel, Nokia, Qualcom, Philips, Samsung, Sony, 3M, TI, Toshiba, TDK, TRW, Verizon, and others...  Universities  CalTech, Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Cornell, China University Consortium, Korean University Consortium, Imperial College of Science, Johns Hopkins, McGill, MIT, Rensselaer, Stanford, Taiwan University Consortium, Virginia Tech, Yale, and others...  Government Labs & Agencies  NASA, Los Alamos, Oakridge, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, NIST, NSA, US Naval Research Lab, US Army, US Patent Office, and others...

Slide 14 Use Of IEEE Xplore By Members and Customers Is Doubling Again This Year IEEE Xplore contained 971,000 documents by September 2003 (up from 902,000 Jan & 740,000 in Jan. 2002) Document PDFs Retrieved Each Month 21 million documents retrieved in first 6 months 2003! 4% more than TOTAL use in ALL of 2002

Slide 15 Millions Use The 7 Product Packages Now Delivered By IEEE Xplore Average per month (000) Jan. - Aug Jan. - Aug % change Total visits 1, , % Unique visitors 1, %

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Slide 23 Changing Competition: Most Dramatic Is Reed Elsevier  We talk about Elsevier not because we want to be like them but because they’re trying to become more like us  Shifting from libraries to pursue individuals: authors, editors, reviewers, and readers  Elsevier’s strategy aggregates a broad array of information & services for individual  Journals, magazines, conferences, communities, indexing services, navigational aids  Now offering free “Public Services”  Scirus search service, Computer Pre-Print Server

IEEE Serves The Discipline In Multiple Dimensions

Reed Elsevier Now Competes With IEEE In Every Dimension

Slide 26 PSPB & The IEEE Publications Group Are Key Partners In IEEE’s Program  IEEE Publications Group in New Jersey supports a majority of this activity  Serves 40 of 41 Societies & Councils in some way  Produces Potentials Magazine for RAB, regional conferences in Xplore  Operates IEEE Spectrum & Proceedings of the IEEE  Responsible for IEEE Xplore, IEL, MDL  Large part of IEEE’s 2003 Budget  Gross Revenues = $61.1 million (with all IEL Revenue)  Gross Expense = $45.6 million (Before Reimbursements)  185 Staff: 180 Full Time, 10 Part Time

Slide 27 PSPB & The IEEE Publications Group Are Key Partners In IEEE’s Program  PSPB oversees policy and budget  Publishing policies for quality, copyright and IP issues, publishing technical standards, etc.  Budgets for operations and internal transfer rates  Operational goals & priorities  PSPB’s 25 members represent a cross-section of IEEE  4 Officers: Chair & VP (elected by Assembly), Vice-chair (appointed by TAB), Treasurer (appointed by VP), Past Chair  9 Members at Large  1 GOLD Member  2 Chairs of committees: Strategic Planning, TAB/PSPB Products & Services  6 Representatives appointed by other units: RAB, EAB, Standards, TAB, Computer Society,TAB, IEEE-USA  3 Editors of Institute-wide Pubs: IEEE Press, Proceedings of the IEEE, Potentials

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Slide 29 Strategic Planning  Strategic Planning underway - meeting last weekend  Coordinated with TAB  Impact on membership  New products/capabilities  Develop the best research tool, not just a repository for papers!  Partnering will be key - We are now are spidered by Google

Slide 30 Contacts    Please contact us with your thoughts, suggestions and concerns  THANK YOU