PROPOSAL to CEIRC for 2004 Subscriptions

PROPOSAL TO CEIRC for 2004 subscriptions

THE DATABASES

Foundation DatabasesExpanded Academic ASAP

Health Reference Centre Academic

Computer ASAP

LegalTrac

General Business File or Business and Company Resource

Center

Monumental DatabasesBiography Resource Center

Contemporary Women’s Issues

Gale Ready Reference Shelf

History Resource Center – Modern World

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers

Literature Resource Center

MLA International Bibliography on InfoTrac

Times Digital Archive

Special CEIRC OffersTimes Literary Supplement – Centenary Archive (Purchase)

Literature Resource Center with MLA International Bibliography

Declassified Documents Reference System

THE CONCEPT

Foundation Databases: Pricing model remains as in the past – the more subscribers, the lower the price, AND choose the user level that suits you.

Monumental Databases: Subscribe to any two Foundation Databases and libraries can subscribe to any of the Monumental Databases at the specially discounted prices

Proposal is valid for orders confirmed by 1st of December, 2003.

THE BENEFITS

BUILD a comprehensive and diverse collection tailored to your size and needs.

CHOOSE only the databases you need to support your subject areas.

CREATE a true electronic reference collection that provides more than just periodical content.

USE the saving power of the consortium, without paying for products you don’t need.

InfoMarks

Most of Gale’s online content[1] provides you with access to our free InfoMarks technology. Already adopted by many universities, InfoMarks allow you to easily create links to the databases from Course Packs, E-Reserve, OPACs, Subject Pages, etc.

TABLE OF CONTENTS SUPPORT

Gale has added journal searching with table of contents support to its suite of InfoTrac Web products. In addition, it has updated the corresponding Marc856 and ASCII record sets with InfoMarks to fully utilize the new table of contents display style that is part of this new functionality.

The Journal Search feature offers searchers the fastest route to detailed information for thousands of journals containing millions of articles from hundreds of different publishers. Using this feature, InfoTrac Web searchers have immediate access to journal detail descriptions that include complete journal name, ISSN, publisher name, audience rating, format, index and full-text coverage dates.

The underlying table of contents display provides a year, volume, issue organization of journal contents, as opposed to our previous advanced journal search function which returns a display of every citation associated with the journal.

Gale MARC856 and ASCII record sets with the updated InfoMarks linking directly to the year, volume and issue of each journal may be downloaded for free. MARC records are loaded into the library catalog and the InfoMark stored in the MARC records 856 field provides direct access to journal content in InfoTrac Web.

SUPPORT

Free training and support is available from a dedicated Thomson Gale office, based in Melbourne. Universities are also given free access to a training site with unlimited access to Thomson Gale databases

USAGE STATISTICS

Usage statistics are automatically provided to subscribers on a monthly basis. Users can also create usage reports, at any time, for a chosen time period.

This year, turn-away statistics are available and indicate the true usage of the Gale databases in your university library.

(Usage statistics for RDS databases are in a different format.)

TRIAL ACCESS

Trial access details will be sent separately to the Datasets list. The trial access will be accessible until 30th November, 2003.

September 2003

[1] InfoMarks are not available in Contemporary Women’s Issues and Times Centenary Archive