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               DNER COLLECTIONS UPDATE
                          
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              Issue 1, September 2001
           (http://www.jisc.dner.ac.uk)

This is the first issue of DNER Collections Update, a 
regular e-mail newsletter designed to inform those 
responsible for managing local and institutional collections
about DNER Collections activities and developments. 


Contents

1. Three important documents from the JISC
   - New charging bands
2. Collections News
   - EMBASE
   - JSTOR
   - Web of Science 
3. e-books update
4. EEBO Seminars              
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1. Three important documents from the JISC

The JISC has recently published three new documents. These 
are the Collections Development Policy, the draft 3-year
Collection Strategy and the Final Report from the JCEI 
(JISC Committee for Electronic Information) Charging 
Working Group

Collections Development Policy
This document is the Collections Development Policy for the
DNER (Distributed National Electronic Resource) and
covers four key stages in the lifecycle of DNER 
collections: identification of potential resources, their 
selection as collections, evaluation of the impact of 
collections, and resource de-selection or renewal. This 
policy is a working document that will change over the next 
three years as collecting practices for the DNER develop 
and as more volatile selection criteria (e.g. agreed 
standards) change. The full document is available at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/coldev_policy.htm

Collection Strategy
The JISC will continue to procure and make available on a
subscription basis a collection of high quality electronic
resources of relevance to learning, teaching, and research
in higher and further education. In addition the JISC will
expand its activities to create high quality electronic
resources through digitisation and development of discovery
tools for important collections residing in institutions. 
The full document can be read at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/strategy.htm 

Charging Policy
This is the final report from the Charging Working Group
established by JISC's Committee for Electronic 
Information (JCEI), to review the current arrangements for 
dataset charging and to make recommendations on a revised 
charging model, to better suit the needs of small 
institutions and FE Colleges. The full document is 
available at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub01/charging.html 

New charging bands

Information about the new Charging Policy and a list of 
institutional banding is now available online at:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/newbanding.html


These documents were sent to all FE and HE 
institutions and consultation has taken place. Feedback 
will be given to the JISC Committee for Electronic 
Information (JCEI) and the Content Working Group (CWG), and
the results of this process will be distributed to the 
community in due course.

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2. Collections Update

- EMBASE

EMBASE Renewal Pricing has been Finalised. Pricing for the 
EMBASE dataset has now been finalised by Elsevier, JISC and
Ovid. We have endeavoured to keep pricing as close as 
possible to the existing subscription fees. The key changes
are:

- The availability of an additional seven years of EMBASE
  data on some services.
- No concurrent user limits - all prices are based on a
  statewide licence.

We are also pleased to announce that Silverplatter has been
added to the list of authorised service providers for this 
agreement.

Further information, including prices for data/service are 
given at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/additions.html

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- JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection 

We are very pleased to announce the release of the upcoming
Ecology & Botany Collection, JSTOR's third archival 
collection of scholarly journals, to UK institutions.

The collection contains some of the most essential journals
published in the environmental sciences. Ecologists, 
conservationists and scholars in related fields will now be
able to research journal literature in the environmental 
sciences going back more than 130 years. 

We are pleased to have had the support of the Ecological
Society of America in the creation and production of this 
collection. JSTOR has been able to significantly reduce the
fees for this collection thanks to funds that have been made
available to the ESA from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 
that helped cover production costs.

You can view the complete list of titles in the Ecology &
Botany Collection at:
http://uk.jstor.org/about/ecobot.list.html 

Participation fees and information for the Ecology & Botany
Collection for UK participants are available at:
http://uk.jstor.org/about/uk_fees.html 

Institutions already participating in Arts & Sciences I will
receive a 20% reduction on the Ecology & Botany fees.

To participate in this new collection please download and
complete the JSTOR Sub-Licence Agreement available on the 
JISC web site at: 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/jstor.html 
and return three copies (two originals and one photocopy) of
the licence to the JISC DNER Office.
                  
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- Web of Science

The following items of news have been reported by MIMAS.

Enhancement to Service
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MIMAS are pleased to announce that following the successful
completion of testing of a new site-recognition mechanism 
(TGP) the ISI Web of Science Service for UK Education will 
be enhanced on 17th September as follows:

Users with personal Athens usernames will have access *off 
campus* to the institution-specific facilities:
- Links to full text (n.b. though some publishers may still
implement an IP check)
- Local Holdings search

The mechanism will support improved communication between 
ISI products, enabling direct linking between WoS and 
Current Contents Connect, BIOSIS etc.

Full details are availabel from:
http://www.mimas.ac.uk

New Training Service
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In addition further to our recent announcement regarding 
the Training Service, testing has now been completed and the
service will be available from the 17th September. Links to 
this service and instructions for tutors will be available 
from the training page at:
http://wos.mimas.ac.uk/training.html

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3. e-books Update

An e-books strategy document has just been published by 
the JISC/DNER e-Books Working Group. It is designed to set 
out some of the issues for the E-Books Working Group to 
consider when setting a strategy for the development of 
e-books within UK higher and further education. The 
document is available at:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/ebooks/strategy1.html

In addition, a printed leaflet has been produced describing
the activities of e-Books Working Group, including details 
of how institutional contacts can join the mailing list, is
now available. For a copy of the leaflet, please contact 
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4. EEBO seminars 

The JISC, ProQuest Information and Learning, and the EEBO 
Text Creation Partnership are exploring a potential 
agreement for access to Early English Books Online.  27. 
Three regional presentations have been arranged in London, 
Birmingham and Edinburgh. Austin McLean from ProQuest 
Information and Learning will present EEBO, Mark Sandler 
from the University of Michigan will present the EEBO-TCP 
and either Alicia Wise (Assistant DNER Director for the 
JISC) or Hazel Woodward (Librarian at Cranfield University 
and Chair of the JISC's E-Book Working Group) will outline 
the pricing principles. There will be an opportunity to ask
questions and try the product. These events will give you a
chance to assess the full value of this proposal and raise
any questions you have. The dates and venues are as 
follows: 

§ 1st October 2001, 1pm	    QEII Conference Centre 
                            London
§ 2nd October 2001, 1pm     University of Birmingham
§ 3rd October 2001, 1pm     Dynamic Earth Conference Centre 
                            Holyrood Park, Edinburgh.

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The DNER Collections Team welcomes feedback on the contents 
of this newsletter and on their activities as a whole. Full
contact details of the team are given at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/contacts/


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Dr Philip Pothen
DNER/RDN Communications Manager,
JISC DNER Office,
King's College London,
Strand Bridge House,
3rd Floor,
138-142 The Strand,
London WC2R 1HH

Tel:    020 7848 2935
Mobile: 07887 564 006
Fax:    020 7848 2939
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