Not My Usual Alias, we’ve been working through your idea and have several questions which will help us determine next steps in our innovation process.  What best describes your role – attorney, paralegal, Legal Secretary/Administrator, Law Librarian or Law Clerk.    How often & what types of material do you find yourself ordering that is NOT part of Reed – we ask this as much of the material offered IS Reed content.

It’s great to see you’ve given some thought to the invoicing process ; can you share any additional details to make it a slightly clearer?

Are you making your recommendations based on other LexisNexis invoice processes’?

Thanks for your quick response.

For the benefit of others following your idea, I'll offer high level bullet-points of your response:

- You are a law librarian.

- order material from Ovid, Wiley InterScience, ScienceDirect, and other sources less frequently.  

- order a couple hundred articles a month that are not on Reed Elsevier.

- you're working from the c.v. of an expert – ours or someone else’s.

- When the IP attorneys or the products liability nurse practitioner/paralegals are using a general source for materials, they use Medline.  

- From the Medline results, they may ask for 1 to 100 articles.  If the material is on RE for the products liability folks, it's fine.  

- Depending on the date of the patent dispute, or the judge in some cases, you have to have the date received stamp to indicate when a prior art item became available to the public.

Not My Usual Alias, thanks for taking the time to discuss the specifics of your idea directly with a member of the Elsevier Science team.  And of course thank you for sharing this great idea with the IDEAS community.

As discussed Ellen D, Senior Product Manager ScienceDirect, will forward your idea to the Scopus  www.elsevier.com/.../description  team, as ScienceDirect solely holds Elsevier content while Scopus provides content across publishers, so they would be more likely to offer such services.

Your idea will also be discussed with other members of Elsevier, who are looking into new applications / services / tools, so they can take it into account while creating new products / services.

I see you’ve shared some great ideas with us recently; I am interested to know what other features or functionality you’d like to see in our products.    As an active member of this growing community, what are your thoughts on the blogs that have been offered on the Legal Technology Blog?

Keep sharing & commenting!!

IdeaCzar

In looking at SCOPUS, I think it misses the mark.  Their model as it appears on the website is to provide access for a kajillion unrecoverable dollars -- all administrative cost.  With a largish organization, we pay per user for full access to everything under the sun.  We don't need access for 5000 people -- just a few in the library.

What I'm seeking is the individual articles, not the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything.

It looks like Wiley InterScience is just an interface to the Elsevier content that is or will be on the Lexis side.  I hadn't realized that before.

Thanks for getting back to us again.

Currently SCOPUS is not equipped with Pay per View functionality to serve your needs. It stores however the content across several publishers, so that’s the one place for searching the suitable articles. From a Reed Elsevier side it is currently the platform which would be most capable of offering such services, as it indexes the content across publishers.

As discussed, this idea has been sent to our INNOVATIONS team for further investigation.

IdeaCzar on behalf of Senior Product Manager ScienceDirect