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THE CHEST DATA MESSENGER
3rd May 2002 URL:<http://www.chest.ac.uk/>
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CONTENTS
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a) America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts - Service Updates
b) Bartholomew Vector Data for Europe
c) EBSCO and JSTOR
d) Tele Atlas MultiNet Evaluation
e) MIMAS Open Forum 2002
f) Latest Data Wishes
a) America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts - Service Updates
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ABC CLIO is pleased to announce that the historical databases America:
History and Life and Historical Abstracts now link to the full-text of
the journals of Project MUSE <http://muse.jhu.edu>. If an institution
has subscribed to Project MUSE in addition to America: History and Life
and/or Historical Abstracts, users will automatically see these links to
full-text in their research results.
This partnership is the third of its kind for the ABC-CLIO history
databases, with links to the full-text of journals from JSTOR and the
History Cooperative already in place.
For further information on the CHEST Agreement for America:History and
Life and the CHEST JISC Agreement for Historical Abstracts please see
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/america_history/> and
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/historical_abs/> respectively.
b) Bartholomew Vector Data for Europe
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CHEST has been provided with upgraded Bartholomews Europe 1:1,000,000
Vector data (2001), as follows:
ArcView Shape
ArcInfo Coverage
ArcInfo Export
MapInfo Tab
Each of the above is on a separate CD.
There is an "Upgrades Order Form" on the CHEST web pages at:
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/barts/>
This should be completed and returned to CHEST with an official
purchase order, addressed to "EduServ", to cover the cost of media (£25
per CD).
The distribution of the upgrades will be the responsibility of CHEST,
and we will endeavour to turn your order round within seven working
days.
c) EBSCO and JSTOR
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A recent message from EBSCO states:
"EBSCO is excited to announce that we have enabled article-level linking
from EBSCOhost to the full-text articles available in the JSTOR archive.
The initial implementation of this linking agreement will facilitate
full-text links from all EBSCOhost proprietary databases (including
Academic Search Premier, Academic Search Elite, Business Source Premier
and Business Source Elite) as well as the MEDLINE database. These
databases will link to many of the 218 titles currently available in
JSTOR's five archival collections (Arts & Sciences I, Arts & Sciences
II, General Science, Ecology & Botany, and Business)."
Institutions currently licensed for EBSCO Databases and for JSTOR should
therefore benefit from this development.
d) Tele Atlas MultiNet Evaluation
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Following the recent announcement of the launch of the CHEST/Tele Atlas
Agreement, CHEST has agreed to administer the provision of evaluation
samples of MultiNet digital map data, on behalf of Tele Atlas.
Tele Atlas is making two sample datasets available for sites to evaluate
for a period of up to 3 months. The sample areas are:
Paris (subset of France) and Leeds (subset of North)
These will be supplied in Shapefile format.
The terms under which evaluation copies of the data will be provided are
documented in the Agreement Overview, which can be accessed from:
<http://www.chest.ac. uk/datasets/teleatlas/>. The Evaluation Request
Form is also available to download from the same URL above.
e) MIMAS Open Forum 2002
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The MIMAS Open Forum 2002 will be held in Manchester on Thursday 4 July
in Crawford House at the University of Manchester.
The purpose of the Open Forum is to bring together users, teachers and
support staff interested in online information and learning resources,
and present them with news of current and future developments at MIMAS
and in the academic information environment, workshops, and
opportunities for them to tell MIMAS how they can improve the services.
Full programme and booking form can be accessed from:
<http://www.mimas.ac.uk/news/mof2002/>
f) 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>
Art Bibliographic Modern - Art & Design
<http://www.csa.com/csa/factsheets/artbm.shtml>
18 wishes to date
Britannica online
<http://www.britannica.co.uk>
19 wishes to date
British Humanities Index
<http://www.csa.com/csa/factsheets/bhi.shtml>
10 wishes to date
British Pharmacopoeia - Pharmacy
<http://www.pharmacopoeia.org.uk/>
10 wishes to date
Design and Applied Arts Index - Design and crafts
<http://www.daai.co.uk>
16 wishes to date
Eurostat New Chronos datasets - Economics
http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/Public/datashop/print-catalogue/EN?catalogue=Eurostat&collection=09-Database%20Information
3 wishes to date
Expanded Academic ASAP - General
<http://www.gale.com>
New wish
Guardian/Observer Archive - News
<http://guardian.chadwyck.co.uk/html/about.htm>
New - 2 wishes to date
ISI WoS Science Citation Index back to 1945 - Science
<http://www.isinet.com/isi>
10 wishes to date
ISI WoS Social Sciences Citation Index back to 1956 - Social Sciences
<http://www.isinet.com/isi>
4 wishes to date
Lexis Nexis Professional - Busines/Finance/News
<http://www.lexis-nexis.co.uk/>
3 wishes to date
Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts (LLBA) - Languages
<http://www.csa.com/>
5 wishes to date
Mintel Market Intelligence Reports - Business
<http://www.mintel.com>
9 wishes to date
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