JISC has asked EDINA and CHEST to send the following announcement. This
is the first opportunity either has had to inform the subscribers of
the state of negotiation between JISC and Chadwyck-Healey. 

****  Chadwyck Healey Products ****

English Poetry and Palmer's Index to the Times

The current CHEST agreement on behalf of JISC with 
Chadwyck Healey for English Poetry and for Palmer's Index 
to the Times comes to an end on 31/3/00. Sites that become 
licensed to access these services before that time will
qualify for receipt of all the data on CD for access in
perpetuity.  For this reason, the JISC has decided to 
waive the current subscription costs between now and the
end of March to enable the largest possible number of 
institutions to benefit from this opportunity.  If you 
are interested in taking advantage of this opportunity,
please read the Overview at 
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/chadwyck/contents.html 
or contact Heather Franklin of the Data team at CHEST 
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Please note that the online service at EDINA for Palmers Index
will come to an end on 31/3/00 unless Chadwyck Healey and the JISC are 
able to reach some kind of agreement about an extension of the online 
service until the end of the current academic year.  We hope to issue a 
joint statement next week providing further information and 
clarifying the situation.

Alternatively, EDINA would be happy to offer continued online access
to a Palmer's service (with a Web interface) and invites interested
sites to email [log in to unmask] This would be on a cost recovery 
basis and would therefore be subject to a service charge largely
dependent on the level of HE take-up of the offer. EDINA believes
that the service will break even at around the present subscription
level of stlg 200 if all current subscribers were to opt for continued
online access.

 
PCI

This week a circular is being mailed to all Higher 
Education Institutions and Research Councils with important 
information regarding the end of the current agreement for 
PCI, and negotiations for a new service called PCI Full 
Text scheduled to launch in April.  The deadline for 
responses to this circular is February 28, 2000.  

Please note that the current PCI service at EDINA will come 
to an end on 31/3/00 unless Chadwyck Healey and the JISC 
are able to reach agreement about an extension of the 
service until the end of the current academic year. In any event, EDINA 
will provide a link to any successor after the termination of its PCI 
service. Once again, we hope to issue a joint statement providing further 
information next week.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not 
hesitate to contact:

Alicia Wise
JISC Collections Manager
(0171) 848 2556
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