The Eduserv Data Messenger 16 October 2008

Featured this issue:

1. Key Note Agreement renewal – feedback sought
2. Maney Agreement delivers extra journal issues in 2009
3. New enhancements for BookData Online
4. Special limited time offer from NewsBank
5. Black History Month featured in NewsBank
6. New Quick Search Guide for users of the ASTM Digital Library & Standards Package is available
7. News of the Emerald Agreement renewals
8. Come and see us at Online 2008, London Olympia, 2-4th Dec 2008
9. All change for the Eduserv Licence Negotiation Services website
10. Your data wishes

1. Key Note Agreement renewal – feedback sought

Key Note provides market reports for a variety of sectors.  The current Chest Agreement offers a 140 market reports package to Further Education.  It expires at the end of December and we are now negotiating the new Agreement.  We anticipate continuing to provide an updated report package to FE and discount on current listed prices for individual reports for both HE and FE.

A short questionnaire has been sent out to Data Contacts in HE and FE and the feedback from this will be invaluable to us in our negotiations.  If you are not a Data Contact or have not received the questionnaire and would like to contribute then please contact Nicola Garwood (Nicola.garwood@eduserv.org.uk).  Responses are required by Monday 27 October 2008.

Details of the current agreement are available on the Keynote Agreement Overview

2. Maney Agreement delivers extra journal issues in 2009

Four subject collections of journals are available under the Maney Agreement; Materials Science & Technology, Health, History & Humanities which includes two sub-collections, Archaeology & Heritage and Language and Literature and Botanical & Environment

Six of the journals will be increasing the number of issues for 2009 and two will be changing in title. 

In the History & Humanities collection The Italianist, Oxford German Studies, and Publications of the English Goethe Society will all have frequency increases.  Library History will now be titled Library and Information History.
In the Materials Science & Technology collection Advances in Applied Ceramics, Corrosion Engineering, Science & Technology, and Surface Engineering will all have frequency increases.  Transactions of the Newcomen Society will now be titled The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology.
For a complete list of all the collections available through the Chest Agreement please read the Product Descriptions.

Please see the Chest Agreement Overview for pricing details and information on how to sign up to the Maney Agreement.  The final year of the Agreement is 2009 so there is an opportunity to subscribe for just one year enabling your institution to evaluate the collections before the agreement is renewed.

For further enquiries, please contact the Eduserv Helpdesk: 01225 470 523 or help@eduserv.org.uk

3. New enhancements for BookData Online

BookData Online is a subscription service from Nielsen.  It provides comprehensive bibliographic data for English-language books and other published media. The databases include in-print, forthcoming and out of print titles - basic records, enriched data, including tables of contents, jackets/cover images, price, availability, extensive classifications and descriptive content.

Since Nielsen launched BookData Online last year the service has continued to be enhanced in line with industry developments and customer feedback. A number of new features were released on Tuesday 7 October including:
• Quick Print option – click on the printer icon next to the Help button to print the screen view of any results page.
• New short format for print and email –enabling librarians to provide a reader with basic title details without trade information.
• Hyphenated ISBN-13 – hyphenated ISBN-13 is now displayed on the Full Page View alongside the unhyphenated version. It is also available when exporting records.
• Logout button – this is now more visible to encourage users to log out at the end of each session, therefore reducing the number of times the service reaches its Maximum Concurrent User level which prevents other colleagues from accessing the service.

Details of the Chest Agreement can be found on the Overview

4. Special limited time offer from NewsBank

Sites subscribing to NewsBank UK & Ireland Newspapers package before 15 December 2008 will receive three months free access to NewsBank’s Non-UK International Newspapers package.  Sites that renew their current subscription before November will also benefit from this special offer.  The Non-UK International package includes titles from over 30 countries, including the New York Times, Moscow Times, China Daily, and the Indian Express.

The Chest Agreement for the NewsBank UK & Ireland Newspapers Package includes regional, local, and national titles, such as The Times, Financial Times, Guardian and Observer with content dating back to 1996. 

Please see the Chest Agreement Overview for pricing details and information on how to sign up to the NewsBank Agreement. 

For further product enquiries, please contact the supplier by email; Jenny Maxted jmaxted@newsbank.com

5. Black History Month featured in NewsBank

A special report on Black History Month is available now to NewsBank subscribers.  Articles on issues, events, and people relevant to Black History Month appear in the report alongside photographs and website links.

Sites visiting NewsBank will notice its interface has been redesigned making it easier to navigate, customise for the library, and create and save search queries. NewsBank is now also Shibboleth compliant.

Please see the Chest Agreement Overview for pricing details and information on how to sign up to the NewsBank Agreement. 

For further product enquiries, please contact the supplier by email: Jenny Maxted jmaxted@newsbank.com

6. New Quick Search Guide available for users of ASTM Digital Library & Standards Package

The ASTM Agreement gives access to the complete ASTM library of books, journals, and papers.  A quick search guide for users in pdf format Search Guide is now available for download.

7. News of the Emerald Agreement renewals

The agreements with Emerald are on schedule for renewal from 01 January 2009.  Discussions about the final details are nearing completion and will be circulated very soon. 

8. Come and see us at Online 2008, London Olympia, 2-4th Dec 2008

Our staff will be available throughout the event on the Eduserv stand, No. 430. They will be happy to discuss your data and information requirements.

We will be launching a new software platform for service providers and institutions that wish to make protected online content available to subscribing organisations and access management federations world wide. Further details will be released in the weeks leading up to the event.

Our Web Solutions team will also be on hand to talk about web development and hosting services that we provide for clients in the education and wider public sector.

David Orrell, Eduserv's Identity Systems Architect, will be presenting at the main conference. You can catch his talk entitled “OpenID: An id entity system for the open web” on Wed 3rd from 9.30am in Track Two: Order out of chaos - creating structure in our information universe.

We look forward to seeing you there!

9. All change for the Eduserv Licence Negotiation Services website

Over the past few months we’ve been working on a programme of improvements to the Eduserv website. In response to feedback from the community, we’ll soon be launching features which will make finding, managing and requesting Chest Agreements for the products your institution needs a great deal faster, easier and less onerous for you.
We’re putting the finishing touches to the pages and will be launching the site in early November – so keep your eyes peeled for further announcements and updates. You’ll read it here first!

10. Your data wishes

If you would like Eduserv to investigate an agreement for a data resource that would benefit your institution, why not make a wish?  Wishes are the main way for you to tell us which products we should be negotiating on your behalf.

To make a wish visit our Future Agreements section.

British Standards Online - British, European and International standards - 54 wishes

Proquest Dissertations and Theses - comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses - 3 wishes

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