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THE EDUSERV CHEST DATA MESSENGER
29th November 2005 URL:http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/
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a) Renewal of Ovid BioMed Agreement
b) New psychological resources available through Eduserv Chest
c) CSA Collections Agreement
d) Collins Bartholomew GB data, Autumn 2005 Release
e) LibWeb Special Offer
f) CSA MultiSearch Seminars
g) Latest Data Wishes
a) Renewal of Ovid BioMed Agreement
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The current Ovid BioMed Agreement comes to an end on 31st December and Eduserv Chest is in negotiation with Ovid for its renewal. The content is likely to be as follows:
Databases:
Medline
CINAHL (with enhanced product offering, to provide the Ovid CINAHL® Database + Full Text package)
Evidence Based Medicine Reviews (EBMR, comprising the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) from the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination; the ACP Journal Club from the American College of Physicians; and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials)
British Nursing Index
AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine
Global Health
HMIC
Journals - Ovid Journal Collections, all embargo-free and including archival access:
Ovid Core Biomedical Collection
Ovid Biomedical Collection 2
Ovid Biomedical Collection 3
Ovid Biomedical Collection 4
Ovid Mental Health Collection
It is also proposed that e-books, for example in the format of Lippincott's Clinical Choice Collection, are also included (see <http://www.ovid.com/site/catalog/Collection/869.jsp?top=2&mid=3&bottom=7&subsection=11> for detail).
It would be helpful if you could let us know (a) if you would continue your subscription to Ovid BioMed - including a list of the content to which you would subscribe - and (b) if you would be interested in being able to licence the Lippincott Clinical Choice Collection as part of this Agreement.
Please email <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with your views as soon as possible.
b) New psychological resources available through Eduserv Chest
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PsycBOOKS and PsycEXTRA from APA have been added to the Eduserv Chest portfolio of products supporting psychology studies, bringing opportunities for subscribers to access more data in this area with increased discounts in the first year of subscription.
The new products:
PsycBOOKS is a full-text database of book chapters, including the 1500 entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology, and other recent and classic texts;
PsycEXTRA has mostly full-text content covering grey literature including content from private research institutes, professional associations, foundations, labs, government, and more. It is a companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database, supplying clinicians, information professionals, policy-makers, researchers, and consumers with a wide variety of credible information in psychology, behavioural science, and health.
The New Agreement:
PsycBOOKS and PsycEXTRA have been added to the well-established and successful Agreement for PsycINFO, the abstracting and indexing database covering scholarly books, journals, and dissertations with more than 2 million records from the early 1800s to the present. The new Agreement is open to UK and Irish Universities and gives full site-wide access with known costs to 31st July 2008. Pricing is based on FTE student numbers.
The addition of these databases brings the opportunity to cross-search multiple resources and has the additional benefit of greater choice of service provider for PsycINFO for UK universities.
Subscribing sites may choose to stay with one service provider for the full period of the Agreement or to change each year. Choose between APA*, CSA, EBSCO*, OCLC-PICA, and Ovid/Silverplatter or choose different Service Providers for different products.
* Currently PsycEXTRA is only available via APA and EBSCO.
Full details and licences are to be found at <http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/datasets/apa/>.
The current Agreement for PsycARTICLES, the full-text database of more than 50 journals published by APA and other publishers in subject areas such as applied psychology, health, theory, research, social/personality, is due for renewal next year and Eduserv Chest is entering negotiations with APA. We have received feedback from a number of universities with suggested improvements but we would welcome additional comments which would help inform negotiations. Please complete the online form which you can find at <http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/cgi-bin/eoi.cgi?lnk=274>.
c) CSA Collections Agreement
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A reminder that CSA databases are now available through Eduserv Chest at special discounts and grouped to match core academic usage with built in flexibility.
Universities and Third Level Institutions in the UK and Republic of Ireland can now access data from four specially created subject area collections through the CSA Illumina. Institutions can subscribe to one collection and add individual databases from other collections with a 10% reduction on the additions or licence two or more collections with further reductions - up to 20% if you licence all four. Pricing is fixed for the duration of the Agreement.
The subject areas are:
Arts & Humanities - this includes access to the British Humanities Index (BHI) and Linguistics & Language Behaviour Abstracts (LLBA);
Social Sciences includes Sociological Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) and Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA);
Technology brings you a multitude of databases including Abstracts in New Technology & Engineering (ANTE), Aerospace, Civil Engineering Abstracts and METADEX;
Natural Sciences - you'll find Aquatic Sciences & fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) and Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management as well as Microbiology Abstracts and others here.
More information about the databases can be found on CSA's web-site at <www.csa.com/e_products/databases-collections.php>. and to find out more about the agreement and how to subscribe visit <http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/datasets/all-csa/>.
d) Collins Bartholomew GB data, Autumn 2005 Release
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Eduserv Chest is pleased to announce it has been supplied with an update for data provided under the Chest/Collins Bartholomew Agreement.
This covers:
GB 1:200,000 vector data - MapInfo TAB & Interchange (Mid/Mif) formats GB 1:200,000 vector data - ESRI Shape format
GB 1:200,000 raster data - TIFF (packbits) with ESRI TFW
GB 1:200,000 raster data - TIFF (LZW) with MapInfo TAB files
If you are licensed for any of the above data and would like to order an update on CD-ROM please complete the Updates Order Form at <http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/datasets/barts-renewal/updates_order_form.doc> and return it to Chest with an official purchase order made out to Eduserv to cover the cost of the media (£25.00 per CDROM).
e) LibWeb Special Offer
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Nielsen BookData and Eduserv Chest are inviting sites to subscribe to LibWeb to the end of the current agreement period (31st July 2006) at a cost of £600 (+ VAT) for up to 5 users. Access for additional users will be £50 (+ VAT) per user if requested at the time of the initial subscription.
BookData's LibWeb is a web-based bibliographic search tool for English-Language books published in the UK and internationally. With over 3.9 million searchable book records and extended data including over 140,000 book jacket images, LibWeb is an ideal resource to assist you with your bibliographic searches. LibWeb is updated daily, enabling your library to keep up with changes such as current pricing and availability.
The search engine can be interrogated in a variety of ways and includes the following facilities:
Advanced searching
Author searching
BIC Subject Searching
Boolean search functionality
Bulk ISBN search
Keyword searching
Subject searching
BookScan sales data
If you are interested in subscribing at this Special Offer price, please email [log in to unmask]
f) CSA MultiSearch Seminars
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It's not too late to book your place at one of the CSA MultiSearch Seminars. These are to be held at the following locations:
5th Dec: Glasgow Caledonian University
6th Dec: Leeds Metropolitan University
7th Dec: Wolverhampton University
8th Dec: University of Cambridge
12th Dec: University of Oxford
13th Dec: University of the West of England (morning)
13th Dec: Southampton Solent University (afternoon)
To register, go to <http://info.csa.com/multisearch/> now.
MultiSearch provides a simple, fast solution to federated searching that requires minimal implementation. It is already compatible with nearly all major electronic resources, providing an efficient, easy-to-implement solution. MultiSearch enables you to simultaneously search across 1,000+ sources with direct links to the native source for further searching, viewing and browsing.
Eduserv Chest and CSA are in negotiation to provide access to MultiSearch through a Chest Agreement.
g) Latest Data Wishes
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The following is a list of the latest Data Wishes to appear on the Eduserv Chest web site. If you would like to add your wish please go to <http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/future-agreements/wishform.html> or to view the complete Data Wishlist go to <http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/future-agreements/wishes/data.html>
British Standards Online
<http://www.bsi-global.com/index.xalter>
36 Wishes to Date
International Index to the Performing Arts
<http://iipaft.chadwyck.com/public?XXrequest=/home>
3 Wishes to Date
The Knowledge Online
<http://www.theknowledgeonline.com/>
4 Wishes to Date
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