Transcript EAB: N&A And Committees Report N&A Report (As EAB N&A Chair) Other Reports (As EAB Representative): Marketing and Sales Committee PSPB James M.

EAB: N&A And Committees Report
N&A Report (As EAB N&A Chair)
Other Reports (As EAB Representative):
Marketing and Sales Committee
PSPB
James M. Tien
Westin Copley Place
November 17, 2007
N&A Actions For November 2007
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Latest News: Litsa Micheli-Tzanakou elected
EAB VP for 2008
EAB N & A Chair invites nominations for 2008
EAB Committee Chairs and other Committee
positions originally due November 1st to
[email protected].
EAB N&A Chair will share the nominations
with Litsa, the new 2008 EAB VP
EAB Committees include: RAB Reps (2), TAB
Reps (2), SA Rep, N & A, FinCom, SPC, ARC,
PECC, APC, CPEC, PAC, SEOC, SOOC
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Marketing and Sales Committee (1 of 2)
 IEEE’s 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
 Xplore’s 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
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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
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PSPB
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
Press’ Editor, Mo El-Hawary, being
replaced
Barbara Lange reviewed new data mining
tools for subscribers and authors
Latest News: John Baillieul continues as
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PSPB VP in 2008