1. EAB: N&A And Committees Report N&A Report (As EAB N&A Chair) Other Reports (As EAB Representative): Marketing and Sales Committee Marketing and Sales Committee PSPB PSPB James M. Tien Westin Copley Place November 17, 2007

2. 2 N&A Actions For November 2007 l Latest News: Litsa Micheli-Tzanakou elected EAB VP for 2008 l EAB N & A Chair invites nominations for 2008 EAB Committee Chairs and other Committee positions originally due November 1 st to r.toscano@ieee.org. r.toscano@ieee.org l EAB N&A Chair will share the nominations with Litsa, the new 2008 EAB VP l EAB Committees include: RAB Reps (2), TAB Reps (2), SA Rep, N & A, FinCom, SPC, ARC, PECC, APC, CPEC, PAC, SEOC, SOOC

3. 3 Marketing and Sales Committee (1 of 2) IEEEs sales force has been promoting Expert Now for over a year: Prospects are initially enthusiastic – several major companies have trialed Consistent feedback from prospects indicates a lack of critical mass in any given technology There seems to be a focus on using the Xplore platform for Expert Now Xplores Gerry Grenier says that Xplore does not intend to have an LMS – Jonathan Dahl and his people must be so educated EAD must continue to add to Expert Now modules so as to make the Library more relevant and attractive

4. 4 Marketing and Sales Committee (2 of 2) Korean Consortium (75 schools) plans to order Expert Now with IEL renewal before end of 2007: Access through Thomson/Skillsoft platform – so will use LMS $412,500 for 12 months of access Obtained through respect for IEEE content and outstanding sales agent Will help us understand needs of academic market

5. 5 PSPB An Open Access set of guidelines were discussed but no Plan B identified An Open Access set of guidelines were discussed but no Plan B identified Xplore treats Expert Now modules as articles and accordingly stores and dispenses them Xplore treats Expert Now modules as articles and accordingly stores and dispenses them Press Editor, Mo El-Hawary, being replaced Press Editor, Mo El-Hawary, being replaced Barbara Lange reviewed new data mining tools for subscribers and authors Barbara Lange reviewed new data mining tools for subscribers and authors Latest News: John Baillieul continues as PSPB VP in 2008 Latest News: John Baillieul continues as PSPB VP in 2008