apologies for cross-posting,
please circulate widely in FE and HE
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Subscriptions to image and multimedia resources for the
2000/2001 academic
year: SCRAN
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Dear Colleagues,
I am contacting you to supply you with further details about
an agreement for image and multimedia content of
particular interest to the arts and humanities communities
which will be available for institutional subscription
from October/November 2000.
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*SCRAN - a collection of images, moving images, and sound
resources about culture and history.*
SCRAN is a fully searchable resource base of material
culture and human history drawn largely from the Museums,
Libraries, Galleries and Archives of Scotland. It contains
1 million text records of historic monuments and artefacts
120,000 multimedia resources (e.g. image, qtvr and sound
files) and 70 multimedia essays for educational use.
Features are:
-Database is fully searchable with downloadable assets
including still images, audio, video and virtual reality
- Resources in SCRAN are cleared for inclusion in teaching
and learning materials - either paper or electronic
-SCRAN issues periodic Tools and Training CD-ROMs free of
charge which may be copied or networked for institutional
use.
More information is available at http://www.scran.ac.uk/
SCRAN will be available for subscription by all UK higher
and further education institutions at a highly subsidised
rate. The initial subscription period will be 5 years.
HE: Subscription charges will be 50 - 150
GBP pa in the first year, rising to 200 - 600 GBP in year
five, depending on size of institution.
FE: Subscription charges will be 25 GBP in year one, rising
to 150 GBP pa in year five.
These costs represent a considerable reduction on the full
list prices of 2000 pa for HE and 500 for
FE
Details of how to subscribe will be posted on the JISC
website at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/collections
For further information, please contact;
Catherine Grout, Collections Manager for Multimedia, Joint
Information Systems Committee
[log in to unmask], 0207 848 2937.
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Catherine Grout
Collections Manager, Multimedia
DNER Office
Joint Information Systems Committee
c/o Kings College London
Old Library
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
[log in to unmask]
(020) 7848 2937 direct line
(020) 7848 2939 fax
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Dr. Alicia Wise
Asst. Director, Collections and Communication
DNER Office
Joint Information Systems Committee
c/o King's College London
Old Library
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
[log in to unmask]
(020) 7848 2937 office
(020) 7848 2556 direct line
(020) 7848 2939 fax
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