Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you that the AMICO Library is now available at JISC
prices to UK higher education institutions, delivered through the SCRAN
user interface and delivery service. For the past year, AMICO has been
available to UKHE through the RLG interface. That service will continue,
but some existing AMICO licensees may wish to transfer to the SCRAN
interface, and many existing SCRAN users may now decide to take out an
AMICO licence as well. Regular training in the SCRAN interface is
available in the UK, and seamless cross-searching between the two
Libraries is supported, giving one-stop access to almost a quarter of a
million multimedia learning resources.
*FREE TRIAL OF AMICO THROUGH SCRAN
Institutions are invited to sign up to access the AMICO Library through
SCRAN on a 30 day free trial basis. The trial period can start on any day
after 1 January 2002, so if you have not already registered for the trial,
a rapid response would be advised. To sign up for the trial contact:
Conal Anderson, e-mail: [log in to unmask], Tel: 0131 662 1211
*ABOUT THE AMICO LIBRARY
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit organization
of more than 30 major North American institutions with collections of art,
collaborating to enable educational use of museum multimedia.
The 2001-2002 edition of The AMICO Library documents approximately 78,000
different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary
installations. More than simply an image database, works in The AMICO
Library are fully documented and may also include curatorial text about
the artwork, detailed provenance information, multiple views of the work
itself, and other related multimedia. Subscribers to AMICO are able to
access and use the images for research, learning and teaching purposes.
Very highly subsidised subscription rates are available to UK Higher
Education institutions for the next two years. For full details, go to the
AMICO Library Product Description at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/amico.html
Full details of how to subscribe are available in Section 7. of this page,
"How to Register". You can download an rtf copy of the necessary licence
agreement, the *AMICO Library Sub-Licence Agreement* from this URL.
(Alternative arrangements to obtain the Licence Agreement are also
described here, as are contact details to obtain help with subscribing).
But, as a first step, why try out the AMICO Library through SCRAN on a 30
day free trial basis? To sign up for the trial, contact:
Conal Anderson, e-mail: [log in to unmask], Tel: 0131 662 1211
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