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THE CHEST DATA MESSENGER
3rd January 2003 URL:<http://www.chest.ac.uk/>
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CONTENTS
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a) Collins Dictionaries Special Offer
b) WizLearn - Call for Expressions of Interest
c) IEE Online Publications
a) Collins Dictionaries Special Offer
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CHEST is pleased to announce a new Special Offer for a range of
HarperCollins Dictionary products. This should be of general interest
to libraries and also to languages departments, so please forward this
announcement as appropriate. The Offer is open to Higher and Further
Education, Associated Sites, Irish Sites, SURFdiensten and IATUL.
The Special Offer covers three distinct product ranges:
Collins Dictionaries for Academic Research:
Includes Collins Bilingual Range, Collins English Range for native
speakers and Collins COBUILD Range for learners of English as a foreign
language. (see
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/harpercollins/arindex.html> for more
information).
Collins Dictionaries on CDROM:
Includes Collins COBUILD, Collins Desktop Wordfinder Thesaurus, Collins
French Dictionary and Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus (see
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/harpercollins/cdindex.html> for more
information).
Collins WordbanksOnline:
An online Internet service for accessing language data based on the
Collins corpora of modern written and spoken text (see
<http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/harpercollins/wbindex.html> for more
information).
Pricing starts at £900.00 for Collins Dictionaries for Academic
Research, £68.00 for Collins Dictionaries on CDROM and £45.00 for
Collins WordbanksOnline.
If you have any queries relating to this announcement or the Special
Offer itself please contact Tim Hobday <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
b) WizLearn - Call for Expressions of Interest
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CHEST would like to hear from Sites who are interested in a proposed
agreement for WizLearn 7.0 Academic Learning Management System (LMS).
WizLearn, a web-based LMS will be available at 3 levels, pilot, basic
and premium. It is designed to bring students and teachers together in
a virtual learning environment (VLE) and to provide the tools, resources
and techniques necessary for communication, group interaction and
interactive support. More details of the product are available from
<http://www.wizlearn.com.>
Wizlearn is compared with 5 other VLE products on CHEST's VLE Comparison
Grid at <http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/vle/.>
The agreement will be open to all CHEST Eligible Sites including members
of IATUL and SURFdiensten.
Proposed prices for site licences, including 2 days training are as
follows(in UK pounds, including CHEST Admin Fee, excluding VAT;
Level Annual Price Notes
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Pilot 1375.00 Max 1000 users/server
Basic 2645.00 Max 2000 users/server
Premium 13500.00 Unlimited users/server
These prices represent a discount of around 20 per cent on previously
offered academic prices.
Please record your interest in a subscription to Wizlearn via a CHEST
Agreement by sending a message to <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
with the subject line "WizLearn".
An expression of interest does not commit your site to a licence,
however, it is hoped that responses will be based on an identified need
at your institution.
c) IEE Online Publications
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Following on from the announcement regarding the new INSPEC Agreement
in the CHEST Data Messenger of 20th December 2002, CHEST is pleased to
announce that an additional product will also now be available via the
new CHEST/IEE Agreement.
IEE Online Publications will be an additional product option alongside
INSPEC under the new Agreement and will provide electronic access to:
Electronics Letters: IEE's rapid-publication letters journal, with 25
issues per year from January 1994.
IEE Proceedings: A series of 13 bimonthly titles, together covering all
aspects of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing: A Bimonthly journal of
the International Federation for Medical & Biological Engineering
Engineering Journals: Six bimonthly IEE magazines aimed at practising
engineers and engineering managers.
IEE Review: A monthly member magazine providing a regular insight into
the rapidly advancing world of electronics and electrical engineering.
IEE Conferences: Conference proceedings from 1994 to the present
IEE Digests: Digests of information relating to presentations at
colloquia and seminar events, available from 1995 onwards.
There will also be the option to take some or all of the current
subscription year's electronic journal titles in print, for each
subscription year for which an institution is licensed for this option.
Pricing has yet to be fully confirmed but is likely to start at around
£4250 for Online access to IEE Online Publications and £5250 for Online
access and supply of print copies.
If you have any queries relating to this announcement please contact
Tim Hobday <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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