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DNER COLLECTIONS UPDATE
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Issue 3, December 2001
(http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/)
DNER Collections Update is a regular e-mail newsletter
designed to inform those responsible for managing local and
institutional collections about DNER Collections activities
and developments.
Contents
1. National Serials Requirements Survey
2. In brief
- Wiley Reference Works
- Reuters Business Insight
- Global Business Browser
- Cochrane Library
3. Feature - Collection Description Focus
4. Top Three Resources for FE
5. Additions to Infotrac
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1. National Serials Requirement Survey
The DNER Journals Working Group (JWG) is seeking to improve
the way it consults with the community about their serials
requirements. This will be an ongoing process to inform the
work of the Journals Working Group. By consulting on a
regular basis, and seeking to build on each set of data
collected, it is expected that this will inform future
negotiations.
A Web-based survey form has been created to collect
information on key publishers which are not currently
available as a JISC agreement. In the New Year, site
representatives will be asked to co-ordinate local
responses (including polling academics) to a more extensive
survey of individual title and subject requirements.
The survey wil be available at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/journals/survey.html
until December 24th 2001.
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2. In Brief
- Wiley Reference Works
A consultation document on Wiley reference works has been
mailed to all HE and FE institutions. The offer is for a
broad range of titles within science, technology and
engineering. For further details, contact Louise Edwards,
JISC Collections Manager ([log in to unmask]).
- Reuters Business Insight
JISC has endorsed an offer from Reuters for their Business
Insight market reports. The reports cover a number of key
sectors and are international in coverage. For further
details, contact Louise Edwards ([log in to unmask]).
- Global Business Browser
We will be consulting the FE and HE communities on an offer
from Dun & Bradstreet for the Global Business Browser service.
GBB provides comprehensive business information from a number
of data providers, including Dun & Bradstreet, Euromonitor,
and the Financial Times. Contact Louise Edwards
([log in to unmask]) for further details.
- Cochrane Library
There has been some uncertainty in some quarters about the
precise nature of the agreement between the JISC and the
National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) to make the
Cochrane Library available to the education community.
Details of the agreement, including the subsidised cost
to institutions, is given at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/cochrane.html
For the text of the joint JISC/NeLH press release, please
see:
http://www.nhsia.nhs.uk/def/pages/pr/26092001.asp
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3. Feature - Collection Description Focus
The CD Focus is a national post, jointly funded for a
twelve-month period (June 2001 - May 2002) by the Joint
Information Systems Committee/Distributed National
Electronic Resource (JISC/DNER), the Research Support
Libraries Programme (RSLP) and the British Library. The
Focus is located at UKOLN and based at the University of
Bath. The CD Focus team at UKOLN are supported by their
partners: the Archives Hub and the mda.
The Focus is working to improve co-ordination on collection
description methods, schemas and tools, with the goal of
ensuring consistency and compatibility of approaches across
projects, disciplines, institutions and sectors. The project
provides support both for projects actively involved in
collection description work and for those investigating or
planning such work.
The Focus is supported and informed by work carried out by
other members of UKOLN, including the work of Andy Powell
on the RSLP collection description schema, and the broader
work on the effective exchange and reuse of information
resources carried out by Paul Miller as Interoperability Focus.
The Focus issues regular news bulletins and holds workshops
and briefing days for practitioners working in the field.
All the work of the Focus is covered on the CD Focus website
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/
Bridget Robinson
CD Focus
UKOLN
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4. Top Three Resources for FE - The following are the most
popular collections for FE in terms of numbers of colleges
which are current subscribers:
1. Gale Infotrac OneFile and Custom Newspapers
A unique collection of journals and English language
newspapers. The collection of newspapers is available
back to 1996 in Custom Newspapers and these are updated
daily. For a list of the current newspapers please go to
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/gale.html
182 colleges are currently subscribed to this resource.
*This collection is available only to FE*
2. KnowUK and/or KnowEurope
KnowUK is a searchable library on the World Wide Web of
some of the most heavily-used and authoritative reference
materials on all aspects of like in the United Kingdom,
providing key information on the people, institutions and
organisations which influence, govern and make up the
United Kingdom.
KnowEurope is a searchable library on the World Wide Web of
primary and secondary information on all aspects of the EU
and Europe, providing key description, analysis, summaries
and commentary.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/knowuk.html
*This collection is available only to FE*
3. Literature Online and Literature Online for Colleges
Literature Online is a searchable library of more
than 290,000 works of English and American poetry,
drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key
secondary resources and Literature Online for Colleges is
an 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.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/lion.html
*This collection is available to both HE and FE*
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5. Additions to Infotrac
We are very pleased to announce that the following titles
all published by Philip Allan Updates are now available in
Infotrac Onefile in full text:
Biological Sciences Review
Business Review
Chemistry Review
Economics Review
English Review
Geography Review
Modern History Review
Physics Review
Politics Review
Psychology Review
Sociology Review
Issues start with No. 1 September 1999.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/gale.html
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Dr Philip Pothen
DNER/RDN Communications Manager,
JISC DNER Office,
King's College London,
Strand Bridge House,
3rd Floor,
138-142 The Strand,
London WC2R 1HH
Tel: 020 7848 2935
Mobile: 07887 564 006
Fax: 020 7848 2939
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