springerimages 2010 icsti conference, moscow november 2010 elwin gardeur
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SpringerImages
2010ICSTI Conference, Moscow November 2010
Elwin Gardeur
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Agenda
•About SpringerImages
•Getting started with SpringerImages
•Browsing content
•Searching
•Personalization features
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What is SpringerImages?
• A database of over 2.8 million images and associated pieces of full-text from
Springer publications and third-party scientific image sources Images
• Images include: drawings, photos, tables, charts, etc.
biology image library
Springer Journals
Springer Books
Open Access
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About SpringerImages
• 2.8 million+ scientific, technical and medical images
–Images: photos, graphs, histograms, figures, tables and video’s
• Constantly growing database
• Variety of sources: SpringerLink, SpringerProtocols, images.MD,
and more
• Peer-reviewed, trusted sources
• Unlimited concurrent users
• Availability: Entire collection or Medical and Life Sciences
• Permission to use images for personal, non-commercial use
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Getting started with
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When you are looking to:
• Use images to quickly update lectures or presentations.
• Get a refined and relevant list of results quickly when searching for pertinent
pieces of information in a vast quantity.
• Use easily customized searches tailored to individual needs, such as comparison
of research results or sharing keywords with other users to optimize the search
• Quickly understand the context of an image, dramatically reducing the time
needed to review literature
• Easily jump to the source to confirm the context and retrieve further information
When to use SpringerImages?
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Logging in• Log in and register
at top of homepage
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Help screens
• Help is at the top of
each page
• Here you can find
FAQs, contact
information for tech
support, and more
• You can also
manage your
account
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Setting up an account
•Register for an account
by clicking at the top of
any page
•Setting up an account
requires creating a
username and password
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Managing an account
•Access your account
information by clicking
“MY ACCOUNT”
•Edit Account
•My Image Sets
•Saved Search Results
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Browsing content
Content may
be browsed:
•By subject
•By source
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On image page,
users can view:
•Image
•Caption
Image page
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On image page,
users can view:
•Image
•Caption
•Description
•Image source
details
•Copyright
information
Image page
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Also on the image
page, users can:
•Share
•Save to image set
Image page
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Searching SpringerImages
The basic search
feature is at the
top of the home
page
From the drop
down, you can
select searching
image captions or
full-text
Let’s try by searching for genome
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Searching SpringerImages Results appear in center
•From here, users
may with one click
browse these
results:
•By subject
•By source
•Users can also
search for specific
image types
Users may also sort
results by relevance
or by newest/oldest
Or save search
results for later
human
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Searching SpringerImages Results appear in center
•By refining the
search, we’ve
narrowed our search
results.
•We can remove the
filters from the
search results
Users may also find more options with an
Advanced Search
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Advanced search
“Show Advanced
Options” brings
up this drop box
with options
Users may fill in
as many or as
few of these
options as they
wish
Clicking on a
magnifying glass
brings up a list of
options to choose
from
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Personalization of
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My ImagesMy Images can be
viewed by selecting
link at top
Like search results,
they can be filtered
with the options on
the left
Users can also
export all images in
an Image Set into
either PowerPoint
or PDF
Click for PowerPoint example
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Thank you!
Elwin Gardeur
Licensing Manager Sales
Springer Science+Business Media
Corporate library Sales Benelux, Eastern Europe & Israel/New Business ROW
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