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THE CHEST DATA MESSENGER
5th October 2001 URL:<http://www.chest.ac.uk/>
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CONTENTS
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a) CHEST Contacts
b) Telnet Usage
c) New products from EBSCO
d) Special prices on Context-JUSTIS law databases
e) NewsBank Newspapers
f) Latest Data Wishes
a) CHEST Contacts
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Allen McCarrol and Tim Hobday have now taken over as CHEST contacts for
the following data agreements:
Allen KnowUK
RAPRA
Tim ABES (Annotated Bibliography for English Studies)
Inspec
Allen can be contacted on 01225 474349, [log in to unmask]
Tim can be contacted on 01225 474351, [log in to unmask]
b) Telnet Usage
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CHEST is trying to establish the level of telnet access being used
within universities in the UK. If your users access any data in this
format CHEST would be grateful if you would advise the following:
Are end-users staff/undergraduates/postgraduates?
Approximately what percentage of total staff and students use telnet?
Please e-mail your response to Tim Hobday <[log in to unmask]> with
the subject line Telnet.
Thank you for your time.
c) New products from EBSCO
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CHEST is pleased to announce that additional products from EBSCO are
being added to the portfolio. Full details will be available as soon as
possible. The databases are:
Academic Search Premier
Biomedical Research Community (Basic)
UK and Eire Reference Centre
Subscription dates will be the same as for the existing products, with
the agreement years running from 1st October to 30th September. These
additional products may be licenced annually or for 3 years, to 30th
September 2004, and subscriptions taken out during an agreement year
will be subject to a pro-rata charge to cover the number of months left
in the first year of subscription.
Annual pricing is as follows but there will be further reductions for
Institutions making a longer commitment and paying annually or
'up-front':
Academic Search Premier: £21,275
Biomedical Research Community (Basic): £1,350
UK and Eire Reference Centre - for HE and Ireland: £3,200
UK and Eire Reference Centre - for FE: £1,800
VAT at the prevailing rate should be added to the above prices.
Title lists are available:
Academic Search Premier: http://www.epnet.com/maglists/html/ap_h1.htm
Biomedical Research Community (Basic):
http://www.epnet.com/maglists/html/bm_h1.htm
Descriptions taken from EBSCO's web site are:
Academic Search Premier
is the world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database
designed specifically for academic institutions. With the most valuable
and most numerous collection of peer-reviewed full text journals,
Academic Search Premier offers critical information from many sources
found in no other database. Academic Search Premier contains:
* full text for nearly 3,200 scholarly publications
* abstracts and indexing for over 4,160 scholarly journals with many
dating back to 1984
* full-page images, as well as color embedded images
* diverse content providing a valuable resource for your library,
supporting core curriculum degree requirements and elective classes
* scholarly collection providing full text journal coverage for nearly
all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities,
education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc.
Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
provides doctors, research scientists, students, clinical specialists
and managers with access to 100 full text journals covering such
disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences. All 100
full text journals contained in the database are also indexed in
MEDLINE. Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic can be searched
independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text
from citations within MEDLINE. When this citation database is viewed via
EBSCOhost there is the ability to link to full text for articles
contained within the Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic database.
The UK/EIRE Reference Centre
has combined UK magazines and Irish magazines, newspapers, newswires,
and reference books to create the largest collection of UK/Irish
specific full text content available to FE/secondary schools, public
libraries, and academic institutions in the United Kingdom. The
Encyclopedia of Britain and the Encyclopedia of Ireland are included.
This Reference Centre also includes many international magazines,
newspapers & newswires, reference books and company information, as well
as biographies and an image collection. Magazine coverage includes full
text of publications such as The Economist, History Today, and many
more. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The
Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The
Express, The Times, The Sun, and many more.
A further announcement, including information on additional discounts,
will be made when Licences for the above products are available on the
CHEST web pages. Information about other EBSCO databases which may be
licensed through CHEST is available at
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/ebsco/
d) Special prices on Context-JUSTIS law databases
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CHEST is pleased to announce a special offer for web accessible
databases from Context where institutions may order Context-JUSTIS
databases at a reduced price when orders are placed before 31st December
2001.
This special offer is available to institutions subscribing to
Context-JUSTIS databases for the first time or existing subscribers
wishing to add to their current list of databases.
Pricing is confirmed for the first year of subscription only (to 30th
June 2002) (if taken on an annual basis) but it is hoped that Context
will be able to offer the reduced prices for the remainder of the
agreement period. Savings are guaranteed if institutions pay 'up front'
for the remainder of the agreement period, to 30th June 2004, and will
also benefit from a further 10% discount.
Databases and pricing for this offer are as follows:
First year pricing - to 30th June 2002:
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Law Reports Package - £2,000 per year (includes The Law Reports, Weekly
Law Reports, Law Reports Digest and Daily Cases)
The Law Reports only - £1,400 per year
Weekly Law Reports only - £600 per year
Statutes and Satutory Insruments package - £1,250 per year
Celex/ Official Journal-C package - £1,250 per year
Human Rights - £600 per year
'Up-front' pricing - to 30th June 2004:
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Law Reports Package - £5,400 (includes The Law Reports, Weekly Law
Reports, Law Reports Digest and Daily Cases)
The Law Reports only - £3,780
Weekly Law Reports only - £1,620
Statutes and SIs package - £3,375
Celex/ OJ-C package - £3,375
Human Rights - £1,620
VAT at the prevailing rate should be added to all the above prices.
Institutions wishing to take advantage of this special offer should use
the licence or addendum forms on the CHEST web site at
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/context-justis/licence.rtf or
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/context-justis/addendum.rtf and change
the prices listed accordingly. Please add the names of the packages if
you wish to subscibe to those. CHEST will invoice institutions at the
reduced prices for all orders received before 31st December 2001.
e) NewsBank Newspapers
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The following has been received from Newsbank:
"In November 2001, NewsBank Newspapers-UK will be released. NewsBank
Newspapers-UK is a unique newspaper collection containing the best-known
national broadsheets and tabloids from England.
Designed specifically for newspaper research in libraries, this
collection contains solely newspapers: 8 dailies, 8 Sunday editions, and
one weekly title. This full text collection was created for libraries
seeking a discrete collection of national newspapers without journals,
non-UK newspapers, or newswires mixed in.
NewsBank Newspapers-UK is easily searchable through NewsBank's
proprietary software. Two search options are available to accommodate
both the novice and advanced searchers. In addition, a search can be
done in either individual or multiple titles. Delivered via the
Internet, NewsBank Newspapers-UK is updated daily to keep you informed
of current issues and events.
All news articles are included for each title with the exception of The
Times which comprises just the business, economic, and political news
articles. All articles are covered in their entirety. For background
coverage, the date for all titles will be 1998 forward. Images, graphs,
and charts are excluded.
NewsBank has been delivering newspaper information to libraries for over
30 years. It has a long-standing track record of quality products and
responsive customer service. A full time customer service
representative is available for libraries in the UK. There are sales
representatives in the UK to serve both academic and FE institutions.
NewsBank Newspapers-UK includes:
* The Guardian
* The Observer
* The Times
* The Sunday Times
* The Economist
* The Daily Mail
* The Mail on Sunday
* The Daily Telegraph
* The Sunday Telegraph
* The Independent
* The Sunday Independent
* The Express
* The Express on Sunday
* The Daily Mirror
* The Sunday Mirror
* The Evening Standard
* Sunday People "
Institutions wishing to subscribe to this offer are required to commit
to a 3 year subscription paid annually. The discounted CHEST
subscription price is locked in over the contract period, which begins
on January 1, 2002. This offer is open to UK Higher and Further
Education Institutions and Third Level Colleges in the Republic of
Ireland, and pricing is per institution, which includes staff and
registered students of an institution in the UK regardless of location.
Pricing includes 10 simultaneous users per institution/per product.
Blocks of four additional users may be purchased for £342 per block.
Annual pricing for UK Higher Education Institutions and Third Level
Colleges in the Republic of Ireland is based on the number of full-time
equivalents (FTEs) (including staff and students):
Up to 3,500 FTE: £1,620.00
3,501 - 12,000 FTE: £1,990.00
12,001 + FTE: £2,430.00
Pricing for Further Education Institutions is available at a further
discount giving a price of £595 per annum regardless of the size
of the institution.
VAT at the prevailing rate should be added to all the above charges.
In the event, at the invoicing time for each anniversary, that the US
dollar exchange rate has fluctuated by more than 10% the price will be
reduced or increased by amounts that exceed the 10% change. Institutions
will be notified at the time of invoicing. In the rare case where the
institution's price will increase by more than 10%, and accommodation
cannot reached with the publisher, the institution will be able to
terminate from the end of the current year.
30 day trials will be available. Institutions placing subscriptions
this year will receive free access from the date of their order to the
end of 2001.
If your institution wishes to subscribe to NewsBank Newspapers please
complet 2 licence forms which are available at
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/newsbank-newspapers/ and return them to
CHEST.
f) 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>
PsycArticles - Psychology - http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/
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