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The Eduserv Chest Software Messenger 3 July 2008
Contents:
Reminder about SAS Agreement renewal
News of the AVS Agreement for UNIRAS & OpenViz Software
News about MindGenius - Vista compatible version now available
July webinars from Adept Scientific
EduCoMS online IT community
Your software wishes
Reminder about SAS Agreement renewal
The Eduserv SAS Agreement has been renewed for three years until July 2011 with fixed pricing for that period. Current licences expire on 31st July 2008. In order to ensure licence continuity it is important that sites renew their licences before the 1st August. They should complete their paperwork and return it to Eduserv as a matter of some urgency.
The necessary paperwork can be downloaded here
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/agreements/software/existing/sas/Licence%20Information .
It is important that sites submit a commitment form, a licence form, a software order form and a server registration form.
Please note that you can now send signed, scanned copies of all the licence forms by email to finance@eduserv.org.uk
News of the AVS Agreement for UNIRAS & OpenViz Software
Eduserv and AVS have extended the Chest Agreement for a fourth time.
The original agreement was first negotiated by Chest in 1988, just over 20 years ago. Since then, over 70 sites have taken subscriptions to this software.
The agreement consists of the following components of application and graphics building package software:
Gsharp Professional Edition
Gsharp Web Edition
Gsharp Application Seat
Toolmaster agX
FGL-AGL
OpenViz Particles and OpenViz Elements for Microsoft and Java
Product details can be found at: www.avs.com
Details of the agreement remain unchanged and can be found at: AVS UNIRAS & OpenViz
News about MindGenius - Vista compatible version now available
MindGenius Education 2005 is a mind mapping program which allows users to draw a variety of concept maps and export them to a range of applications.
Anyone running MindGenius 2005 under the Chest Agreement is entitled to a free upgrade to the latest version of the product which is Vista compatible. The MindGenius Education Enterprise 2.43 setup files can be downloaded from the MindGenius website via a hidden link upon request to Nicola Garwood at
nicola.garwood@eduserv.org.uk.Please note that this is not an upgrade patch, but instead it is the full setup.exe to install the product fresh. The upgrade should install over the top of the old editions; however if there are any problem with this a complete removal and re-install is recommended.
If there are any problems with the installation, the Technical Contact should get in touch with the MindGenius support desk at
support@mindgenius.com where you will receive further assistance.More information about the MindGenius Chest Agreement can be found by reading the agreement
Overview . For more information on the MindGenius product please Visit the MindGenius website .
July webinars from Adept Scientific
(This message is posted on behalf of Adept Scientific)
UK technical software specialists Adept Scientific are running a series of free 1/2-hour webinars to demonstrate just how much time and effort EndNote, EndNote Web and Reference Manager could save users when it comes to finding and storing useful references, citing authors and creating bibliographies. These events introduce users to reference management software; providing information for anyone involved in research, especially for staff and students with a relevant Chest licence. Please pass on this information to anyone who would benefit from a software overview.
Webinar programme:
NEW EndNote X2 at 2.30pm on 10 July 2008
Reference Manager 11 at 2.30pm on 17 July 2008
EndNote Web at 2.30pm on 24 July 2008
You can view the upcoming webinar schedule and enrol at
http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/training/index.html?cat=online_seminarsPlease note that these webinars are not designed to act as software training sessions. To improve knowledge of using these bibliographic tools, please refer to the range of public courses at
http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/training/If you'd like more information about Adept's web seminars or would like to set up a session solely for your institution, please email Stephanie Marshall on biblio@adeptscience.co.uk
EduCoMS online IT community
Over £250 worth of book tokens have already been sent out to members of the EduCoMS.net online community who’ve contributed to the site. For every post, you could win up to £25 in tokens and one of five tickets to Microsoft’s IT TechEd Forum in Barcelona this October.
EduCoMS was set up as part of the Microsoft Campus agreement launched last November. Anyone looking for support, shared wisdom and experiences of building IT solutions based on Microsoft products should make EduCoMS their first port of call.
Visit the website:http://www.educoms.net/Pages/default.aspx
Your software wishes
If you would like Eduserv Chest to investigate an agreement for software that would benefit your institution, why not make a wish? Wishes are the best way for you to tell us which products we should be negotiating on your behalf.
If you would like to make a wish for a new products then please complete our online Wishform:
To view the complete software wish list:
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/chest/future_agreements/wishes?productType=SOrigin - data analysis and graphing software
http://www.originlab.com/9 wishes – need more wishes
Dashboard – range of business management tools for software asset management
http://www.phoenixdashboard.com/New wish