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THE CHEST DATA MESSENGER
2nd November 2001 URL:<http://www.chest.ac.uk/>
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CONTENTS
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a) Renewal of CrossFire service
b) Reminder of trial access to American National Biography Online
c) BIOSIS Previews Backfile at EDINA
d) Essay & General Literature Index from H W Wilson Company
e) Latest Data Wishes
a) Renewal of CrossFire service
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CHEST and MDL Information Systems GmbH are pleased to announce the
renewal of the CrossFire Beilstein and Gmelin Agreement. The new
agreement started 1st November 2001 and is for five years, to cover the
period to 31st October 2006.
The provision of CrossFire under a CHEST Agreement has been available to
the education community since November 1996. In providing this new
Agreement for the service CHEST has worked very closely in association
with JISC and MIMAS in ensuring that the provisions by MDL will meet the
needs of current and future users.
The service will continue to be provided by MIMAS and there will be a
continuation of service during the transfer between the current and new
agreement for those Sites that have chosen to renew. For Sites that
chose not to renew, access to the service was removed on Thursday 1st
November 2001.
The service comprises access to CrossFire Beilstein & Gmelin Databases
of organic and inorganic data (including CrossFireplusReactions,
CrossFireAbstracts and CrossFire EcoPharm);Beilstein Commander; Autonom
2000; CrossFire Web and LitLink/Pro. Note: The LitLink/Pro service will
be provided by MIMAS as from 1st February 2002. The CrossFire Web
service will be provided by MIMAS within six months of the release of
CrossFire Web for academic use by MDL.
CrossFire is a comprehensive chemical information management system
comprising the CrossFire Beilstein and CrossFire Gmelin databases and
the Beilstein Commander and CrossFire Web software which are used to
search and access the databases. CrossFire Beilstein contains over 8
million organic compounds, with over 8 million reactions and over 4
million citations. CrossFire Gmelin contains over 1.5 million inorganic
and organometallic compounds, 1.3 million reactions and 1 million
citations.
Searches can be for starting materials, products or for complete
reactions, or for factual data or free text, and via hyperlinks one can
instantly access information about other substances, their citations and
chemical reactions. Autonom is a program, integrated with the
Beilstein Commander, which generates IUPAC names for chemical
structures. LitLink/Pro allows the user to link directly from citations
found in the CrossFire databases to the corresponding on-line full-text
articles. (Note: LitLink does not grant additional access rights to such
articles).
Full subscription details and information about pricing is available
from the CHEST webpages at <http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/mdl.html>
Please address any queries to Emma Thompson, email
<[log in to unmask]>
b) Reminder of trial access to American National Biography Online
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CHEST would like to remind Sites of the opportunity to have free access
to American National Biography Online until 7th December 2001. To do
so contact Susanna Lob at Oxford University Press, <[log in to unmask]>
American National Biography Online is the subject of a forthcoming
agreement between CHEST and Oxford United Press which is due to
commence 1st January 2002. Further details about this product is
available at http://www.anb.org/ and further reviews are available at
<http://www.anb/org/reviews.html>
c) BIOSIS Previews Backfile at EDINA
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The BIOSIS Previews Backfile is now available from EDINA. Sites
accessing BIOSIS Previews via EDINA may access the backfile with no
additional service charge. There is, however, an additional cost for the
data:
Year 1: 1st August 2001 - 31st July 2002: £854.70 (+ VAT)
Year 2: 1st August 2002 - 31st July 2003: £880.35 (+ VAT)
Year 3: 1st August 2003 - 31st July 2004: £906.75 (+ VAT)
Year 4: 1st August 2004 - 31st July 2005: £939.90 (+ VAT)
Year 5: 1st August 2005 - 31st July 2006: £961.95 (+ VAT)
Addendum forms to add the Backfile to your licence (two fully completed
forms should be returned to CHEST) are available at
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/biosis/backfile-licence.rtf>
d) Essay & General Literature Index from H W Wilson Company
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is now available on OCLC's FirstSearch as an add-on database or as a
Per-Search option. Annual pricing as an add-on database for sites
already subscribing to FirstSearch (see
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/oclc/> for details) is based on FTEs
and is as follows:
Less than 5000: £1,429
5-10,000: £1,857
Greater than 10,000: £2,357
VAT should be added to all prices. This database should be ordered
directly from OCLC.
Sites which do not currently subscribe to FirstSearch are able to buy
blocks of searches which may be used against any Per-Search database on
FirstSearch (see <http://www.uk.oclc.org/firstsearch/databases/> for
details). The minimum purchase is £250 for 500 searches. Please email
<[log in to unmask]> for an order form.
A brief description of Essay & General Literature Index, taken from
OCLC's web site, is:
Essay and General Literature Index cites essays and articles contained
in collections of essays and other works published in the United States,
Great Britain and Canada. More than 300 volumes are indexed annually.
Also indexed are more than 20 annual and serial publications. The
database includes full bibliographic information for the titles in which
the collected works are found. Essay and General Literature Index
focuses on humanities and social sciences literature.
e)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>
Applied Science & Technology - Science & Technology -
<http://www.hwwilson.com/>
Art Full Text - Art - <http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/artindex.shtml>
PEP Archive - Psychoanalytic Materials - <http://www.p-e-p.org>
Geobase - Earth Science Database - <http://www.elsevier.com>
Ulrich's on the web - Library/Bibliographic Reference -
<http://www.bowker-saur.co.uk>
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