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S w/e 11th September 1998 URL: http://www.chest.ac.uk/ S
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Contents: 1. Anbar Agreement
2. Computer Abstracts Agreement
3. International Civil Engineering Abstracts
4. Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext Agreement
5. INSPEC
6. OCLC FirstSearch Agreement
7. Clover forthcoming Agreement
1. Mailing reference: 23/98
CHEST / Anbar Management Intelligence Agreement
CHEST is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with MCB UP
Limited for the provision of the Anbar Management Intelligence and
Anbar Management Intelligence with Document Delivery via the World Wide
Web over JANET/Internet or CD ROM.
Anbar Management Intelligence abstracts every article published in an
accredited collection of more than 400 English language management
periodicals. Areas of coverage include: accounting and finance,
information management and technology, the management of quality,
marketing and logistics, operations and production management, human
resource management and strategic management.
Abstracts include the following information: author, author affiliation
(new for 1998), the full title of the original published item, the
source (journal, date, volume, issue, page), a review (abstract) of the
article written by a subject matter expert, keywords, quality
indicators (covering research and practical implications, readability
and originality) and article type (e.g. case study or literature
review).
* three CD-ROMs per year with full database archive (1989 - date)
* online database, updated monthly, with full database archive (1989 -
date)
* document delivery service, via The British Library, for full-text
retrieval of every article abstracted in the database
The annual charge for Anbar Management Intelligence under this
Agreement will be #3,000 (plus VAT) per annum for Higher Education
institutions and #1,750 for (plus VAT) per annum for Further Education
institutions. These charges are reduced to #2,700 (plus VAT) per annum
and #1,500 (plus VAT) respectively institutions signing a licence for
service starting before 31 Dec 1999.
The annual charge for Anbar Management Intelligence with Document
Delivery Credits under this Agreement will be #5,700 (plus VAT) per
annum for Higher Education institutions and #4,500 for (plus VAT) per
annum for Further Education institutions.
Full details are included in the Agreement Overview located at:
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/anbar/overview.html
PRESS RELEASE EXTRACT:
Gill Crawford, ANBAR's manager, said "This is a very significant
agreement. Anbar Management Intelligence has long been seen as the UK's
leading management abstracting service. The combination of ANBAR's high
quality content and editorial resources and CHEST's ability to deliver
excellent technical solutions and support, long-term price stability
and organisation-wide access will give the Higher and Further Education
Community in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands valuable new ways to
access the world's management literature."
2. Mailing Reference: 24/98
CHEST / Computer Abstracts Agreement
CHEST is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with MCB UP
Limited for the provision of Computer Abstracts via the World Wide Web
over JANET/Internet or CD ROM.
Computer Abstracts abstracts every article published in an accredited
collection of more than 200 English language computer science
periodicals. Areas of coverage include: hardware, computer systems
organisation, software, data, theory of computation, mathematics of
computing, information systems, computing methodologies, computer
applications and computing milieux.
Abstracts include the following information: author, author
affiliation, the full title of the original published item, the source
(journal, date, volume, issue, page), the British Library shelf number
and the author-written abstract. Each abstract is keyworded by subject
matter experts and classified using the ACM Computing Classification
System.
* three CD-ROMs per year with full database archive (1993 - date)
* on-line database, updated monthly, with full database archive (1993 -
date)
* document delivery service, via The British Library
The annual charge for Computer Abstracts under this Agreement will be
#1,200 (plus VAT) per annum for Higher Education institutions and #950
for (plus VAT) per annum for Further Education institutions. These
charges are reduced to #1,000 (plus VAT) per annum and #750 (plus VAT)
respectively institutions signing a licence for service starting before
31 Dec 1999.
Full details are included in the Agreement Overview located at:
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/computer_abstracts/overview.html
PRESS RELEASE EXTRACT:
Nigel Lodge, Director of CHEST, said "This is one of four products from
MCB for which CHEST has negotiated terms which are fixed for five
years. The products enable the academic community to have electronic
access to an additional wealth of specialist fulltext article and
abstract information in a number of subject areas. Institutions will be
able to provide access to content with full search capability at the
desktop."
PRESS RELEASE EXTRACT:
Gill Crawford, ANBAR's manager, said "This is a very significant
agreement. Computer Abstracts has been abstracting the computer science
literature for more than forty years and is highly regarded world-wide.
The combination of ANBAR's high quality content and editorial resources
and CHEST's ability to deliver excellent technical solutions and
support, long-term price stability and organisation-wide access will
give the Higher and Further Education Community in the UK, Ireland and
the Netherlands valuable new ways to access the world's computer
science literature."
3. Mailing Reference 28/98
CHEST / International Civil Engineering Abstracts Agreement
CHEST is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with MCB UP
Limited for the provision of International Civil Engineering Abstracts
via the World Wide Web over JANET/Internet or CD ROM.
International Civil Engineering Abstracts abstracts every article
published in an accredited collection of more than 150 English language
civil engineering periodicals. Areas of coverage include: construction
management, enviromental engineering, geotechnical engineering,
hyraulic engineering, professional / educational matters, structural
engineering and transport engineering.
Abstracts include the following information: author, author affiliation
(new for 1998), the full title of the original published item, the
source (journal, date, volume, issue, page), the British Library shelf
number (new for 1998) and the author-written abstract. Each abstract is
keyworded and classified by subject matter experts.
* three CD-ROMs per year with full database archive (1972 - date)
* on-line database, updated monthly, with full database archive (1972 -
date)
* document delivery service, via The British Library
The annual charge for International Civil Engineering Abstracts under
this Agreement will be #850 (plus VAT) per annum for Higher Education
institutions and #600 for (plus VAT) per annum for Further Education
institutions. These charges are reduced to #750 (plus VAT) per annum
and #500 (plus VAT) respectively institutions signing a licence for
service starting before 31 Dec 1999.
Full details are included in the Agreement Overview located at:
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/civil_engineering/overview.html
PRESS RELEASE EXTRACT:
Gill Crawford, ANBAR's manager, said "This is a very significant
agreement. International Civil Engineering Abstracts has been
abstracting the civil engineering literature for more than twenty five
years and is highly regarded world-wide. The combination of ANBAR's
high quality content and editorial resources and CHEST's ability to
deliver excellent technical solutions and support, long-term price
stability and organisation-wide access will give the Higher and Further
Education Community in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands valuable new
ways to access the world's civil engineering literature."
4. Mailing Reference: 22/98
CHEST / Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext Agreement
CHEST is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with MCB UP
Limited for the provision of Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext via the
World Wide Web over JANET/Internet or CD ROM.
The Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext is an online fulltext database of
more than 20,000 full-text PDFs drawn from 100+ management and
engineering journals published by MCB University Press. Journal
coverage includes every article published (where available) from 1994
to the present day plus article abstracts back to 1989 (where
available).
Areas of coverage include: operations and production management,
economics, marketing and logistics, training and education, human
resource management, library management, property management,
information management, quality management and engineering.
Further material is added on a monthly basis. Major service features
are as follows:
* three CD-ROMs per year with fulltext archive (1994 - date);
* online database, updated monthly, with full database archive (1994 -
date);
* discounted hardcopy journals available as an optional extra; and
* table of contents by email service.
The annual charge for Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext under this
Agreement will be #10,495 (plus VAT) per annum for Higher Education
institutions and #2,495 for (plus VAT) per annum for Further Education
institutions. These charges are reduced to #8,995 (plus VAT) per annum
and #1,995 (plus VAT) respectively institutions signing a licence for
service starting before 31 Dec 1999.
Full details are included in the Agreement Overview located at:
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/emerald/overview.html
PRESS RELEASE EXTRACT:
Mathew Wills, Emerald Brand Manager, said "This is a very significant
agreement. Emerald Intelligence + Fulltext delivers comprehensive
online and CD-ROM access to every article published since 1994 in more
than 100 journals from the UK's leading academic management publisher.
The combination of MCB University Press's high quality journal content
and CHEST's ability to deliver excellent technical solutions and
support, long-term price stability and organisation-wide access will
give the Higher and Further Education Community in the UK, Ireland and
the Netherlands valuable new ways to access management content."
5. Mailing reference: 20/98
CHEST / Inspec Agreement
CHEST is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with IEE
(Institution of Electrical Engineers ) for the provision of the Inspec
via the World Wide Web. Depending on service provider chosen other
access options may be available. (see
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/inspec/responses.html)
INSPEC is an English-language information database providing access to
the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical
engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering,
computers and computing, and information technology.
The cost of licencing the data is:
Year starting 1 September 1998 - #6,400
Year starting 1 September 1999 - #6,720
Year starting 1 September 2000 - #7,056
Year starting 1 September 2001 - #7,408
Year starting 1 September 2002 - #7,780
To this must be added the service cost which will depend on the service
provider chosen.
Notes:
Prices are shown exclusive of VAT and are per subscribing institution.
Full details are included in the Agreement Overview located at:
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/inspec/overview.html
6. Mailing reference: 17/98
CHEST / OCLC FirstSearch Agreement
CHEST is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement with OCLC
Online Computer Library Center, Inc to continue the provision of the OCLC
FirstSearch(r) Service Databases via the World Wide Web. Password
controlled access to Licensed sites. It is hoped that access will be
available using ATHENS Authentication. Pricing for each package is
at the end of the descriptions.
(i) & (ii) THE CHEST FIRSTSEARCH BASE PACKAGE
The FirstSearch subscription package with an option for either
(i) Unlimited Access (as part of the CHEST Consortium) or (ii) Single Log-on
(single concurrent user) Access. Single Port (Log-on) Options are for
the Named Institution only and are not pooled. These Institutions are
not part of the CHEST Consortium.
This package contains:
WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog): Records of any type of
material catalogued by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts
written as early as the 11th century.
OCLC ArticleFirst: Journal in science, technology, medicine, social
science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
OCLC ContentsFirst: Complete table of contents page and holdings
information for journals in many fields.
OCLC Electronic Collections Online (abstracts and index database): A
growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, all with
full-text articles online. Articles include all original content and
images. The interface supports cross-journal searching and browsing
within selected journals. Users can view bibliographic information for
all journals and view abstracts and full-text articles from journals to
which their institutions subscribe.
OCLC FastDoc: A collection of articles that have a high percentage of
citations that can be ordered for online viewing or email delivery.
OCLC NetFirst: Bibliographic citations including abstracts, subject
headings, and classification codes. Includes a variety of Internet
accessible resources including World Wide Web pages and Listservs. New
resource types, including Usenet newsgroups, FTP sites, Gopher servers,
and electronic publications in many formats will be coming soon.
OCLC PapersFirst: Papers included in every congress, conference,
exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British
Library.
OCLC ProceedingsFirst: Citations of every congress, symposium,
conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British
Library.
OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals: Holdings for journals and other
covered items among OCLC member libraries. It can help you determine
if a library holds a specific journal issue.
ERIC: References to thousands of educational topics. Includes journal
articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, and standards
and guidelines.
GPO Monthly Catalog: Records on all subjects of interest to the U.S.
Government.
Medline: Journals published internationally, covering all areas of
medicine.
World Almanac: Covers arts and entertainment, US cities and states,
people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment,
vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes and more.
(iii) "THE CHEST OCLC COLLECTION" (see above for database descriptions)
A smaller selection of databases with Single Log-on (single concurrent
user) access only.
WorldCat
OCLC ArticleFirst
OCLC ContentsFirst
OCLC Electronic Collections Online
OCLC FastDoc
OCLC NetFirst
OCLC Union Lists
(iv) THE CHEST FIRSTSEARCH GENERAL REFERENCE COLLECTION
(see above for database descriptions)
A special selection of databases with Single Log-on (single concurrent
user) access only.
WorldCat
OCLC NetFirst
World Almanac
The World Book Encyclopedia (International Edition): Consists of more
than 17,500 full-text articles and 6,200 cross references. The Web
version includes more than 1000 tables.
H W Wilson Select Full Text: Comprised of records from Readers' Guide
Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General
Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. All records point to
complete online full text.
The New York Times Full Text: Includes all articles published within 90
days for delivery as ASCII full-text documents. Maintains and abstract
and index database with coverage from January 1994 to the present.
(v) PER SEARCH OPTION
This option enables an Institution to buy blocks of searches at a
heavily discounted rate for access to over 70 eligible databases.
Access to Full Text databases is available with this option.
Details of available databases may be found at
http://www.uk.oclc.org/oclc/fs/9085fs/tablerev.htm
A search credit is deducted when a user:
* sends a search word or phrase
* adds a search word to the previous search
* re-uses the previous search with different search limits
* selects a word or phrase to search after it has been looked up in a
Browse Index
* views or e-mails an article online (this costs 5 searches)
The following are not counted as searches:
* database connect time
* viewing, printing, downloading or e-mailing records
* looking up words in a Browse Index
* use of Help facilities
ELECTRONIC COLLECTIONS ONLINE
Electronic Collections Online is a web-based electronic journals
service which offers an alternative to print subscriptions by providing
integrated access to large and growing collection of academic and
professional journals from a number of publishers.
Journal issues are available on or before their print publication date
and appear in their entirety. The service is essentially available 24
hours a day and seven days a week.
Records in FirstSearch databases are being linked to corresponding
full-text articles from journals available through Electronic
Collections Online and all relevant FirstSearch databases will be
linked to Electronic Collections Online. Articles from these journals
can be retrieved directly from records in linked databases, rather than
finding a citation in a database and then checking for the article in
Electronic Collections Online.
For more information about Electronic Collections Online, a service
overview and a guide tour see http://www/oclc.org/menu.eco.htm
The Abstracts and Index file is available only to those Institutions
taking up the CHEST FirstSearch Base Package (6.1) or "The CHEST OCLC
Collection" (6.2). Access to Full Text of Electronic Collections
journals is only available when the Institution has a subscription
agreement with a publisher for journal(s). Journal subscriptions must
be ordered from publishers or subscription agents.
Access to journals is subject to a collection management fee.
The ECO fee (access account) covers the following:
* Access to all citations in the service
* Print quality article representation (for articles in journals for which
Institutions have a subscription)
* Activity Reports
* Technical and Product Support
* Archiving (Institutions have access 'for ever' to journals for which
they had a subscription, even if their subscription has ended, as long
as they have an access account)
* Cross journal searching and extensive browsing
A complete listing of publishers and journals currently available may
be found at http://www2.oclc.org/fseco/publish.htm
PRICING:
(i) Base Package (based on Institution size)
Unlimited Access Option for Existing Consortium Members
#8,000 or #6,000 reflecting a 25% discount to Institutions with
populations 5,000 or less *
Unlimited Access Option for New Consortium Members
Large (10,000 + population *): #9,000
Medium (5,000 - 10,000 *): #8,500
Small (less than 5,000 *): #6,500
(ii) Base Package Limited Concurrent User (CU) Option **
#2,900 one CU and each additional CU at #2,250
(iii) The OCLC Collection Limited Concurrent User (CU) Option **
#2,640 one CU and each additional CU at #2,376
(iv) The FirstSearch General Reference Collection Limited Concurrent
User (CU) Option **
#4,767 one CU and each additional CU at #4,290
(v) Per Search Option
50p per search - minimum purchase: one block of 500 searches
Wilson Select Full Text package (unlimited access)
Very large (20,000 population *): #8,710
Large (15,000 population *) #6,530
Medium (10,000 population *) #4,360
Small (5,000 population *) #2,420
Electronic Journals: A collection management fee of #25 per
journal subscription per annum will be payable to OCLC. A Custom quote
is available directly from OCLC for Institutions with many
subscriptions.
Online Full Text: Licensed Sites may purchase online full
text articles available via the Service, and from selected Databases,
on a per document basis for a charge of #2.60 per document. These
charges will be invoiced directly by OCLC.
NOTES:
1. VAT at the prevailing rate is to be added to all charges.
2. All costs are per annum prices.
3. * Institution sizes are based on the HESA statistics.
4. ** Limited Concurrent User Options are for the Named Institution
only and are not pooled. These Institutions are not part of the CHEST
Consortium.
Full details are included in the Agreement Overview located at:
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/oclc/overview.html
7. Mailing reference:14/98
CHEST / CLOVER Agreement (forthcoming)
CHEST is pleased to announce that it will shortly reach agreement with
Clover Publications for the provision of the Newspaper Index (including
Company Data Supplement) and the Clover Information Index via the World
Wide Web at the URL http://clover.niss.ac.uk/
The Clover suite of databases comprises:
The Newspaper Index (including Company Data Supplement) covers all the
quality daily newspapers - Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian,
Independent, and Times. It also covers the Observer, Sunday Times,
Economist, European, Times Education, Higher Education and Literary
Supplements. The file goes back to late 1986 for many of these.
The Clover Information Index indexes over 80 periodicals giving a wide
subject coverage, going back to the early 1970's for some periodicals.
Each entry in both indexes has a subject heading (with extra keywords
for the web version), article title, an annotation if thought
necessary, pagination and issue details.
Full lists of titles covered by both indexes will be provided on the
Clover website, http://www.cloverweb.co.uk Subscribers to The Newspaper
Index will receive the printed cumulations free of charge.
The annual charge throughout the three years of the agreement for
Newspaper Index under this Agreement will be #335 (plus VAT) per annum
for Higher and Further Education Institutions in the UK and Ireland,
Research Councils and Associated Sites.
The annual charge throughout the three years of the agreement for
Information Index under this Agreement will be #100 (plus VAT) per
annum for Higher and Further Education Institutions in the UK and
Ireland, Research Councils and Associated Sites.
The annual charge throughout the three years of the agreement is
reduced for those sites licensing both the Newspaper Index and
Information Index to #399 (plus VAT) per annum for Higher and Further
Education Institutions in the UK and Ireland, Research Councils and
Associated Sites.
In addition Public Libraries in UK and Ireland may subscribe on an
annual basis. The annual charge for Newspaper Index under this
Agreement will be #335 (plus VAT) per annum. The annual charge for
Information Index under this Agreement will be #100 (plus VAT) per
annum. The annual charge for those sites licensing both the Newspaper
Index and Information Index I is reduced to #399 (plus VAT) per annum.
Secondary and Primary Schools in the UK and Ireland (including 6th form
colleges), NHS Libraries and Registered Charities not included
elsewhere may subscribe to both indexes at an annual charge of #180
(plus VAT) per annum.
Prices may vary after 1st October 1999 for organisations that have
single year (renewable) Subscriptions.
Full details are included in the Agreement Overview located at:
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/clover/overview.html
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