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The Eduserv Chest Data Messenger 24th July 2008
Contents:
APA Agreement has been renewed
Reminder about the MathSciNet Agreement
Update on the ASTM Digital Library and Standards Agreement
News about the renewal of the IET Online Publications agreement including Inspec
APA Agreement has been renewed
From 1st August 2008, the agreement with the American Psychological Association (APA) is to be renewed for a further 3 years.
Under the new agreement sites benefit from;
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Preferential fixed pricing
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Potential shared savings in excess of £1.5 million
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Competitive tendering has led to improved service provision with costs down by up to 66%
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Institutions can change their service provider each year if they choose to
The agreement includes a number of databases;
PsycARTICLES
is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
PsycCRITIQUES
is new to this agreement and combines a weekly release of book and film reviews dating from 1956 with a searchable database
PsycBOOKS
is a full-text database of books and chapters in the American Psychological Association’s array of electronic databases.
PsycEXTRA
, a gray literature database, is a companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. Documents include newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports, government reports, consumer brochures; material written for professionals and disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals.
PsycINFO
is an abstract (not full-text) database of psychological literature from the 1800s to the present.
110 institutions have renewed their existing subscriptions licensing 217 products. Others are anticipated to follow.
Details of the new agreement: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/agreements/data/existing/apa_2008. There are details on how to subscribe for both renewing and new subscribers.
Reminder about the MathSciNet Agreement
Eduserv has an agreement with the American Mathematical Society for the MathSciNet database. MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940 and provides web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database.
The agreement has a consortium of 38 Chest Sites. New members are always welcome. New members help to reduce the cost for all members and benefit from lower charges in their first year. If you join now you will be given free access to the database until the start of the next subscription year, 1st January 2009.
Further product information can be found at: http://www.ams.org/
Information on the current Chest Agreement can be found at: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/agreements/data/existing/mathscinet
If you would like to find out how much a subscription will be for your institution then please contact Eduserv.
Update on the ASTM Digital Library and Standards Agreement
The agreement with ASTM and its
Replies to a number of questions that have been asked by sites have now been posted on the web site. Topics include counter compliance, linking from VLEs, downloading policy, access management and cross searching. Please see: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/restricted/astm/faqs.
If you have any further questions or would like more information then please contact either Stephen Tweedie steven@contentonline.co.uk or
Pricing information is restricted to academic institutions and is available, along with more agreement details, from here http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/agreements/data/existing/astm
News about the renewal of the IET Online Publications agreement including Inspec
The renewal of this agreement for IET Publications and the abstract database Inspec is still subject to contract. However, the fees for data and service provision are available from the web site http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/agreements/data/existing/inspec_2008
Institutions should contact Eduserv with any questions that they have regarding this renewal.
Your data wishes
If you would like Eduserv Chest to investigate an Agreement for online resources that would benefit your institution, why not make a wish?
Wishes are one of the main ways for you to tell us which products we should be negotiating for on your behalf.
To make a new wish visit our Future Agreements section.
Latest wishes
There are no new wishes since the last publication of the Data Messenger. We are actively seeking agreement with other publishers represented on the wish list. So please keep sending your wishes in; this is a very important and simple way to keep us informed about potential new Chest agreements.