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THE CHEST DATA MESSENGER
23rd November 2001 URL:<http://www.chest.ac.uk/>
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CONTENTS
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a) Reminder - Renewal of CrossFire service
b) The Cancer Handbook Online
c) Euromonitor Global Market Information Database (GMID) Trial
d) Emerald Fulltext update
e) New database on OCLC's FirstSearch
f) Other OCLC FirstSearch Databases
g) Latest Data Wishes
a) Reminder - Renewal of CrossFire service
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This message is applicable to Sites that have returned "Commitment to
Participate" forms to renew their Institution subscriptions to the
CHEST/MDL Agreement for CrossFire Beilstein and Gmelin.
The new agreement started on 1st November 2001 and it was agreed to
allow access to the service from MIMAS to continue to allow a seamlesss
transfer between the old and new agreements to prevent disruption to end
users. This was based on receipt of the Commitment form and on the
understanding that the formal paperwork, the licences, would follow as
soon as possible thereafter.
CHEST is still waiting for over half of the renewal Sites to return the
paperwork and wishes to remind Sites that they need to return these as
soon as possible. The paperwork can be found at
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/mdl/ and two original licences need to
be printed off, completed and returned to CHEST.
This is also advance notification that all Sites that have committed to
renew this agreement will receive an invoice for the first years fee
within the next week or so. These invoices are raised on the basis of
the Commitment form and Purchase Order numbers will be used where they
have been provided. If you have any queries please contact Trevor
Janes, email [log in to unmask]
b) The Cancer Handbook Online
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The recent offers from Nature Publishing Group and CHEST for the
Encylopedia of Life Sciences Online (see
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/els/) and the Encylopedia of Astronomy
and Astrophysics Online (see http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/astronomy/)
are now being followed by an offer to subscribe to The Cancer Handbook
Online. Nature Publishing Group has provided the following information
about The Cancer Handbook:
"... a dynamic new source of reference information encompassing all
areas of cancer research, from the scientific basis of cancer to its
diagnosis and treatment. Over 100 chapters have been specially
commissioned from 200 international contributors to ensure accurate,
comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all major areas."
This is a three year offer, starting 1st January 2002 and ending 31st
Decenber 2004, available to UK Higher and Further Education
Institutions, with pricing for annual or 'up-front' payments. Pricing
for 1-3 users is as follows:
HE Pricing:
3 years with annual payments: £285 p.a.
3 years 'up-front': £812
FE Pricing:
3 years with annual payments: £270 p.a.
3 years 'up-front': £769
(VAT to be added to above)
More details are available at <http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/cancer/>
Licences will shortly be available from the above web page.
'Macmillan/Nature Publishing/Palgrave' Company Structure:
There has been some confusion about the new structure of Macmillan
Publishers. Nature Publishing Group, formed in October 1999 from
imprints within Macmillan Magazines and the Stockton journals, now
broadens its publishing programme to include the scientific areas of
Macmillan Online Publishing including the scientific areas of Macmillan
Online Publishing and is responsible for specialist journals and
reference materials including 'Encylopedia of Life Sciences Online',
'Encylopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics Online' and 'The Cancer
Handbook'. Palgrave is the new global brand for Macmillan's academic
publishing. Grove (Dictionary of Art, Dictionary of Music and
Musicians), Macmillan Online Publishing and Palgrave are the three
divisions within Macmillan which "serve learning and scholarship
globally and together they form a major force in academic publishing"
(from press release, 10th July 2001).
Contacts are:
Imogen Tizzard (Nature) <[log in to unmask]> Tel: 020 7843 4619
Tim Corcoran (Grove/Palgrave) <[log in to unmask]>
Tel: 020 7843 4612
Victoria Nash (Palgrave) <[log in to unmask]> Tel: 020 7843 4607
c) Euromonitor Global Market Information Database (GMID) Trial
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CHEST is pleased to announce that Euromonitor Plc has agreed to allow a
2nd free 60 day trial of the Global Market Information Database (GMID).
This will be the second year that the very successful agreement offering
UK sites reduced pricing on GMID has been in place between CHEST and
Euromonitor Plc. The trial will be available from the 23rd November 2001
and will end on the 31st January 2001.
The contact for setting up a trial and any other product related queries
is Gordon Cousland, Euromonitor Plc. Tel: 0207 251 8024 (X512) Fax: 0207
251 0985 <[log in to unmask]>. Euromonitor will also be showing GMID
at their stand (Stand 198) at Online Information 2001, Olympia. (4th-6th
December.)
If you would be interested in subscribing to a CHEST agreement for GMID
from March 2002 (start of year 2) please advise [log in to unmask] using
the subject line of Euromonitor. Full details of the agreement are
available from http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/gmid
Euromonitor Plc. has provided the following information.
International market analyst Euromonitor Plc
(http://www.euromonitor.com) is offering the Global Market Information
Database (GMID) - to Higher and Further Education Institutions.
To date, in excess of 550,000 UK students are accessing GMID through the
CHEST agreement . The vast bank of business information is proving
invaluable to students on international business, business studies,
international marketing, Marketing, Retail Studies or other business and
social science courses. FE colleges, who in most cases could not afford
to subscribe to GMID at the normal rate, are finding the opportunity to
present their students with global data coverage for only £800
particularly attractive.
Global Market Information Database (GMID)
Euromonitor's entire portfolio of statistical and full text analysis,
much of which has not previously been available to the academic
community in either electronic or print format, is available in a single
internet based system. GMID is organised into eight fully searchable
data-hubs:
Country Data - a statistical package of over 1,600 population,
demographic and economic parameters for 209 countries worldwide covering
1977 - 2001.
Consumer Lifestyles - 60 full-text country reports covering lifestyle
factors such as religion, language and family structure as well as
buying habits, leisure habits & eating habits.
Retail Market Sizes -volume and value retail market sizes for 330
consumer products across 49 countries worldwide covering 1995 - 2001.
Forecasts - volume and value market sizes plus demographic and economic
data for 49 countries and covering 2000 - 2006.
Brands and Companies - 150,000 consumer brands in 62 countries with
detailed profiles of the companies that own them in each country.
Information Sources - an electronic address book of 30,000 desk research
sources of market information around the world with descriptions and
full contact details. Includes 4,000 web-sites providing free market
information.
Major Market Profiles - ten-point market research reports on the top 200
major consumer and industrial sectors in the UK, USA, France and
Germany. Covering sectors from aerospace to parcel delivery services.
Euromonitor Market Reports - over 750,000 pages of international market
research within
A 6 year archive of Euromonitor's highly regarded full-text market
analysis reports and journals covering consumer and retail sectors
world-wide. 15 -25 reports are added each month analysing markets from
'Beer' to 'Marketing to Children' on a global basis.
GMID LOCATION: http://212.240.205.5
Normal Prices: Academic: £18,500/ Corporate: £50,000+
CHEST Prices: FE: £800/ HE: £3,750
d) Emerald Fulltext update
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The CHEST website has been updated to reflect the up to date title list
available through the CHEST/MCB Agreement for Emerald Fulltext and this
is available at: <http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/emerald/
emerald-fulltext-journals-2002.rtf> This includes 16 free engineering
titles available exclusively through the CHEST agreement.
Users have instant access to over 35,000 full text articles from the
international management portfolio, complete with full text archives
back to 1994. Subject coverage spans a spectrum of management
disciplines including:
strategy; leadership; library and information management; marketing and
human resource management; plus a substantial number of engineering,
applied science and technology titles.
Pricing is competitive at £10,495 for a full year with pro-rata charging
availble per half year starting at £5,248 for University sites. Further
Education pricing is available at less than 25% of the above costs.
Full details of the agreement which runs to December 2003 can be found
at <http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/emerald/overview.html>
e) New database on OCLC's FirstSearch
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The Alternative Press Index is now available on FirstSearch.
The description provided by OCLC is as follows:
"The Alternative Press Index is a database produced quarterly by the
Alternative Press Center and indexes nearly 290 alternative, radical and
left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the
practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social
change. Librarians consider the Alternative Press Index to be the most
comprehensive and up-to-date guide to alternative sources of information
available today and regard it as a unique resource in its field. The
coverage in the database currently extends back to 1991. Additionally,
the full-text of 42 titles indexed in the Alternative Press Index is
currently available through OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections
Online. The Alternative Press Index will be available via both the
per-search and subscription access options. As is customary OCLC
practice, this database will appear with its access turned ON in all
active per-search FirstSearch accounts."
Prices as an additional database for institutions with a subscription
package through the CHEST/OCLC Agreement are:
FTE
<5000 GBP 1071
5-10,000 GBP 1436
10,000> GBP 2336
Prices exclude VAT
This database is available with per-search access, as are many other
FirstSearch databases. See
<http://www.uk.oclc.org/firstsearch/databases/frtable.htm> for details
of this and other databases. Searches cost £250 for a block of 500
searches (minimum order). Institutions wishing to use this method
should return the 'Application to Subscribe' form which may be found at
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/oclc/subscribe.html and the offcial OCLC
order form will be emailed back as a PDF file.
An explanation of the 'per-search' option is available at
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/oclc/persearch.html>
f) Other OCLC FirstSearch Databases
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MLA International Bibliography (subscription only):
MLA Directory of Periodicals is a significant enhancement to the
FirstSearch version of the MLA International Bibliography database. The
Directory is included with subscriptions to the MLA International
Bibliography database on FirstSearch. There is no additional charge for
the Directory, nor is it available separately from the database. Users
can access records in the Directory of Periodicals by clicking on
hotlinks in bibliographic records retrieved by searching the MLA
International Bibliography database.
ATLA Serials Database (subscription only):
The ATLAS: ATLA Serials Database, from the American Theological Library
Association, has expanded to a total of 55 full-text journals from its
original content of 29 key journals in religion and theology indexed in
the ATLA Religion database. ATLA provides cover-to-cover access to the
contents of entire journals in the ATLAS collection. A complete list of
the titles available in the ATLAS database can be found at:
<http://www2.oclc.org/oclc/fs/fstitle/index_db.asp>
Other popular add-on databases:
Geobase (Subscription and 'per search')
EconLit (Subscription and 'per search')
RILM (Subscription and 'per search')
GeoREF (Subscription only)
Cinahl (Subscription and 'per search')
g) Latest Data Wishes
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The following is a list of the latest Data Wishes to appear on the CHEST
web site. If you would like to add your wish please go to
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wishes> or to view the complete Data
Wishlist go to <http://www.chest.ac.uk/general/datawishes.html>
ANTE - Engineering - <http://www.bowker.co.uk/>
Applied Science & Technology - Science & Technology -
<http://www.hwwilson.com/>
ASSIA - Social Sciences -
<http://www.csa.com/csa/factsheets/assia.shtml>
Britannica online - Online Encyclopedia -
<http://www.britannica.co.uk>
British Humanities Index - <http://www.bowker.co.uk/>
New Scientist Archive - <http://www.newscientist.com/archive>
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - Music Literature -
<http://www.silverplatter.com/catalog/rilm.htm>
(Before making additional wishes for RILM Abstracts, please see
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/oclc/persearch.html> as this data is
already available at a reduced price via the CHEST/OCLC PerSearch
agreement)
Times Higher Education Supplement - Full text archive vie the web -
<http://www.thesis.co.uk/>
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