*************************************
New DNER Collections:
Literature Online
and
Literature Online for Colleges
*************************************
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the availability of two new DNER
Collections. These are the Literature Online Complete
Collection for HEIs in the UK, and Literature Online for
Colleges for FEIs in the UK.
Full information about this agreement and licence forms are
now available at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk:8080/dner/collections/lion.html
Literature Online for HEIs
**************************
Literature Online was launched in 1996. It brought together
Chadwyck-Healey's full text databases in English and American literature
and enabled users to search them all together, giving easy access to
more than 250,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama. The new JISC
agreement is for the new LION Complete Collection which currently
includes:
The Faber Poetry Library
20th Century English Poetry
20th Century American Poetry
Database of 20th Century African-American Poetry
The English Poetry Full Text Database (plus the recently launched
English Poetry 2)
The American Poetry Full Text Database
African-American Poetry, 1760-1900
English Verse Drama
English Prose Drama
American Drama
19th Century Fiction
18th Century Fiction
Early English Prose Fiction, 1500-1700
Early American Fiction
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature 1920+
Literary Journals Index in Full Text
Webster's Dictionary
King James Bible
The Complete Collection will continue to grow over the next three
years, but all content will be available to HE subscribers at no
additional cost.
The agreement for HEIs will be offerred on a
cost-recovering basis. Subscription prices in Year 1 of
the three-year agreement will be:
Large £5995 + VAT
Medium £3800 + VAT
Small £2000 + VAT
Very Small £500 + VAT
Prices will be capped to an increase of 2.5% each year in
years 2 and 3 of the agreement.
This subscription will provide access to the Complete LION
Collection. If yours is one of the HEIs that has
previously upgraded to the Complete Collection, and/or currently
subscribes to material such as American Poetry as a separate
database, then please could you discuss with Andrew Hall
([log in to unmask]) arrangements for any
applicable refund?
No subscriptions will be collected from sites until a new
subscription agent is appointed by the JISC. Last but
certainly not least, the JISC would like to thank the team
at CHEST for ably managing the previous LION agreements for
UKHE.
Literature Online for Colleges
******************************
Literature Online for Colleges is a dynamic new online service developed
to support and extend the teaching and study of English literature at
A-level, AS-level, and for the A1 Language Programme of the
International Baccalaureate. It provides primary and secondary
materials geared to the texts, authors, topics, and assessment
objectives set by the Examination Boards in England, Wales and Northern
Ireland and for the International Baccalaureate.
With financial support from the Further Education Funding
Councils, the JISC is partially subsidising the cost of
subscriptions for access to LION for FE. Subscriptions
for FE colleges will be:
2001 - £50 + VAT
2002 - £150 + VAT
2003 - £300 + VAT
The deal will run from now until 31 December 2003.
Colleges may begin participating at any time, but will then
be required to participate from that time until the end of
2003.
For trial access to either LION product, please
mail [log in to unmask]
Many thanks, and please do not hesitate to contact us if
you have any questions, or if you need any additional
information!
- Alicia
----------------------
Dr. Alicia Wise
Asst. Director, Collections and Communication
DNER Office
Joint Information Systems Committee
c/o King's College London
Strand Bridge House
138-142 Strand, London WC2R 1HH
[log in to unmask]
(020) 7848 2937 office
(07711) 376 256 mobile
(020) 7848 2939 fax
|