Annual report shows increased usage
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FIZ Karlsruhe, STN Europe product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Aug 20, 2002
FIZ Karlsruhe has increased its revenues by 9% compared with the previous fiscal year.
FIZ Karlsruhe has increased its revenues by 9% compared with the previous fiscal year.
Revenues amounted to Eur20.8 million (2000: Eur18.97 million).
Expenditure totalled Eur28 million (2000: Eur27.41 million).
FIZ Karlsruhe's share of proprietorial financing grew to 80.1% from 69.2% in 2000.
Taking also into account the collection services for business partners, usage of STN databases at the FIZ Karlsruhe host increased to Eur50.6 million from Eur49.1million in 2000.
The number of staff has increased to 332 from 317 in 2000.
"These numbers clearly show that the long strategy to offer content plus tools and hence expand FIZ Karlsruhe to become a one-stop shop for scientific and technical information, was the right decision", says Dr Ing Klaus Rupf, chairman of FIZ Karlsruhe's supervisory board up to February 2002, in his foreword of the 2001 annual report.
As in the past fiscal year, the operation of STN International was at the core of FIZ Karlsruhe's activities.
A total of 216 databases (2000: 213) containing approximately 350 million documents were available for online access; of the 216 databases, 109 databases (2000: 107) containing approximately 140 million documents are loaded at FIZ Karlsruhe.
Income source of the databases loaded at FIZ Karlsruhe is fairly evenly divided among German-speaking countries, rest of the European countries (except for Eastern Europe), as well as the USA and Canada, and to a lesser extent Japan.
Databases with patent information played again a significant part in the increase in turnover.
"STN International has continued to maintain its top position as provider of online information in chemistry and patents", comments Professor Georg Friedrich Schultheiss, Managing Director of FIZ Karlsruhe.
A valuable addition to FIZ Karlsruhe's portfolio of content is the DKILIT database covering the world's literature in polymer and plastics chemistry and technology.
The database was acquired from Deutsches Kunststoffinstitut (DKI).
Further databases - partly in co-operation with international partners - are being set-up and continuously updated.
Along with the extension of the content offering, the tools to access and handle data have been further developed.
The web interface STN on the web now has two new Assistants for menu-driven searching and displaying of documents.
An important enhancement of the STN Easy web interface has been STN Easy for Intranets, designed for customised searching from the corporate intranet.
There was a notable increase in usage of the FIZ AutoDoc automated full-text delivery system: 62,000 orders for full-text specialist publications, ie 16% above last year's figure, were received via this web service.
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