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CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * C
H The CHEST DATA MESSENGER No 159 H
E - bringing you news, updates & other snippets E
S w/e 25 February 2000 URL: http://www.chest.ac.uk/ S
T DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST DATA NEWS * CHEST
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This issue is being sent to:
* CHEST HE and FE Site and Data Contacts
* CHEST (Ireland) Site Contacts
* CHEST Associated Site Contacts
* chest-news: register yourself on chest-news to ensure you keep up
to date with all that's going on.
* lis-link
* lis-sitereps
Contents:
1. Data Contacts
2. Arden Online
3. EDINA BIOSIS-Web
4. Chadwyck-Healey Databases
5. OCLC's new Electronic Collections Online promotion
1. Data Contacts
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Institutions are reminded that they may nominate a Data Contact in
addition to the Site Contact. Many institutions now have two contacts
with the Site Contact retaining responsibility for software agreements and
the Data Contact, usually located in the Library, taking responsibility
for all data agreements and offers. Your institution's contacts can be
located at http://www.chest.ac.uk/sites/index.html and those institutions
which wish to split the responsibilty can do so by downloading and
completing the form which can be found at the same URL.
2. Arden Online
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CHEST has recently had discussion with The Arden Shakespeare regarding
their product Arden Online. CHEST would like to know whether there is
any call for this product. The following is a description of the
resource taken from their web site at:
http://www.ardenshakespeare.com/ardenonline/default.html
Ardenonline is the Shakespeare online service from The Arden
Shakespeare, providing the world's finest texts of the complete works
and much more.
Through licensing agreements with consortia of libraries, and individual
paid subscriptions, Ardenonline brings Shakespeare direct to the
desktops of scholars, teachers, students, directors, actors and all of
those who want access to an in-depth, high-quality resource about the
works of the world's most influential playwright.
Ardenonline contains all of Shakespeare's works, edited to the standard
that has made the Arden Shakespeare famous throughout its 100-year
history. For those plays that have been published in the Arden third
series, Ardenonline also includes a carefully selected and extensive
bank of material for teaching and study, with a particular focus on
bringing the works of Shakespeare alive through performance. As new
texts are published in the Arden third series, so the extra material is
added in for each work.
This offer is likely to be open to all CHEST sites including Public
Libraries and in addition personal licenses may be available.
A free trial is currently available at:
http://www.ardenshakespeare.com/ardenonline/default.html
username: chestwinter
password: romeo
Expressions of interest should be addressed to Emma Thompson
<[log in to unmask]> with the subject line of Arden.
3. EDINA BIOSIS-Web
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EDINA has sent the following message:
EDINA BIOSIS-Web vsn 1.0 is now available to all subscribing institutions
from the EDINA home page, at URL http://edina.ac.uk. The current EDINA
BIOSIS-Telnet interface continues to be available.
Sample quantities of an 8-page, A5-size Reference Guide to EDINA
BIOSIS-Web will be sent out this week to subscribing institutions. Please
contact EDINA if you wish to order larger quantities (at 26.40 pounds per
100 Guides). [Please note that this is a change from our earlier
notification.]
Features of the EDINA BIOSIS-Web interface:
- The BIOSIS new format data are accessible from this interface; the date
range is from 1993-present, and the database is updated weekly. The old
format data, covering the range 1985-1998, continue to be accessible
from EDINA BIOSIS-Telnet.
- Like other EDINA Web services, EDINA BIOSIS-Web is accessible via
ATHENS shared access accounts, as well as via ATHENS personal accounts.
- Comprehensive facilities to use the BIOSIS authority file are provided
in EDINA BIOSIS-Web.
- There are currently no facilities to save searches between sessions.
As with all EDINA services, we welcome feedback from Site Representatives
and end users concerning EDINA BIOSIS-Web.
Regards,
EDINA Helpdesk
4. Chadwyck-Healey Databases
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Reminder: If your Institution wishes to be licensed for English Poetry,
Palmer's Index to The Times or PCI before the end of the current Agreement
(31st March 2000) please return 2 completed Licences or Addendum forms (if
your institution is licensed for one or two of the products) as soon as
possible to Heather Franklin at CHEST. (Forms available at
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/chadwyck/
This will enable your institution to be licensed in perpetuity for Poetry
and Palmer's (subject to the terms of the Agreement). Access to PCI will
cease at the end of the Agreement period.
5. OCLC's new Electronic Collections Online promotion
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The following information has been received from OCLC:
Now is a great time to add full-image journals to your library's
collection through this special offer to OCLC FirstSearch Electronic
Collections Online.
All CHEST eligible libraries are being given the opportunity to take
advantage of this offer. As part of this virtual group, your library will
receive a reduced per-title access fee to Electronic Collections Online,
and your participation will help drive down the access fee. The more
titles everyone orders, the lower the fee!
As an example, if this group orders 523 titles, the access fee is just
£9.50 per title p.a. OCLC has created a special Web site (URL to be
available next week) for libraries to indicate how many titles they intend
to purchase and the current access fee per title.
If the group orders... The reduced access fee will be...
1-100 titles £12.50 per title
101-500 titles £10.50 per title
501-1000 titles £9.50per title
1001-2000 titles £8.00 per title
2001+ titles £6.50 per title
How Does it Work?
Through the Electronic Collections Online Print Subscriber Program, you
can add electronic access to your existing print subscriptions at no
charge for the content. Your only cost is the Electronic Collections
Online access account fee. Print subscriptions to any of over 1,100
titles from 24 publishers in the Print Subscriber Program qualify you to
receive the corresponding electronic version at no additional subscription
cost. Most titles include a one- to two-year backfile. A list of titles
included in the program will be found at the URL next week.
More About Electronic Collections Online
Electronic Collections Online is designed to help you manage your
library's electronic journal collection in many unique ways by providing:
* Perpetual access to all the journals to which your library
subscribes on Electronic Collections Online, even if you cancel a
given journal subscription, as long as you maintain an access account to
the Electronic Collections Online.
* The loading and archiving of journal content on OCLC's servers.
* See our archival policy at:
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/edo/110796description.pdf
* Subscriptions to journals on a title-by-title basis, allowing you to
buy just what you need.
* New journal titles to add to your library's electronic
subscriptions, with these new subscriptions coordinated through OCLC.
* Monthly journal-level usage statistics on the number of sessions,
searches, abstracts displayed, and the number of articles requested from
each journal title.
TRY Electronic Collections Online for NO CHARGE!
For a preview of Electronic Collections Online, we are offering you and
your library users access to over 2,000 full-image journals at no charge.
To access the journals just enter http://newfirstsearch.uk.oclc.org and
enter the authorisation and password which will be announced next week.
The Electronic Collections Online trial ends on 13th April.
To Participate in this Offer...
To participate, please go to this Web site (under construction) At this
Web site, we will ask you to:
(1) fill out an online form with your contact information
(2) fill in the number of Electronic Collections Online titles you
plan to order.
Doing this will reduce the per-title access fee as OCLC totals the number
of titles that participating libraries order. Your participation will
help everyone obtain a reduced per-title access fee.
We will then e-mail you the final per-title fee and ask that by 20 March
you return your completed order form/title list and a signed
Electronic Collections Online terms and conditions to OCLC.
If you have any questions please contact Andrew Evans at the address
below:
OCLC Europe, The Middle East and Africa
7th Floor, Hagley Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B16 8TP
Tel: 0121 456 4656
Fax: 0121 456 4680
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web-site: http://www.oclc.org/europe
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