[Web4lib] FYI: Springer Launches Innovative Publisher-Based Image Collection

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

Springer Launches Innovative Publisher-Based Image Collection 
by Barbara Quint <javascript:authorSearch('810')>  
Posted On July 16, 2009 

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After a year and a half of planning and development, Springer
Science+Business Media (www.springer.com <http://www.springer.com/> ),
an international scholarly publisher based in Germany but operating in
20 countries, has launched SpringerImages 

[ http://www.springerimages.com/ ]

The massive collection of 1.6 million scientific, technological, and
medical images includes photos, tables and figures, charts, graphs,
histograms, and other illustrations. Although covering all scientific
subject areas, some 61% of the collection focuses on medical and life
sciences. Drawing on its own vast collection of content, Springer
provides multilayered, in-depth indexing. Subscribers can use the
material liberally as long as they do not use it for direct commercial
purposes. In an interesting development, SpringerImages includes a small
but growing collection of open access images, which are available to
anyone, no registration required.

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