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(Note from the Washington State Library: In order to participate in the Fall 1999 Washington State Databases Trial, each vendor was asked to address questions the Statewide Database Licensing Committee felt were most critical in order for library staff to evaluate products and vendors.  Please contact the vendor's representative, listed below, for additional information on this product)

1. Describe the database product(s). Include information on subject scope, percentage of full-text, dates of coverage, target audience (including age ranges), and how often the contents are updated.

LITERATURE ONLINE

Literature Online (LION) is the preeminent online literature reference resource. It contains over 260,000 full text works of classic and contemporary American and English literature plus nearly 2 million bibliographic citations, some with full text included. More than 16,000 links to literature resources on the Web expand your research to the world’s best literature sites.

Much of the data is unique to LION. The new Literary Journals Index Full Text, for example, is the only available index to 200 literary journals, with current citations updated monthly, and with the full text of 30 key journals. Paired with the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), LION provides powerful research capabilities. Additionally, there are author-to-author links to the Gale Group’s Literature Resource Center for libraries that subscribe.

With a single search, the new easy-to-use LION interface gives users one-step access to primary and secondary resources and author information.

LION is available in two collections -- LION Poetry and LION Complete.

LION Poetry:

LION Complete:

 

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO MUSIC PERIODICALS
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INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO MUSIC PERIODICALS FULL TEXT

Chadwyck-Healey's highly acclaimed International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) on the World Wide Web gives you citations and abstracts for current articles in more than 375 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus retrospective citations dating back as far as 1874. It also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Every current record (1996 forward) has an abstract.

IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. It will appeal to the casual user and also support the serious graduate student or faculty member.

The full-text version, IIMP Full Text, allows start-to-finish research in a single resource, offering full text delivery of 40 key music journals. Users move seamlessly from the index search to the full text and table of contents.

IIMP allows for precise retrieval of information from a dozen combinable fields: All Keywords, Title Keyword, Author, Document Type, Publication, Language, Country of Publication, Publication Date, ISSN, and IIMP Number. For records from 1996 forward, you can also search by Subject Categories and Subject Terms. You can perform adjacency/proximity searching, truncation, and Boolean searching both within and across fields of the database.

A distinguished Advisory Board was established to oversee work on the IIMP project:

IIMP and IIMP Full Text are updated monthly. To see current numbers of citations and full-text articles, click on "More Information" from the IIMP or IIMP Full Text home page, then select "What's new."

 

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO THE PERFORMING ARTS
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INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO THE PERFORMING ARTS FULL TEXT

Chadwyck-Healey's International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) on the World Wide Web provides citations and abstracts for current articles in more than 200 international performing arts periodicals, plus retrospective citations dating back as far as 1864. It also indexes articles and obituaries related to the performing arts appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Every record in the current file (1998 forward) contains an abstract.

IIPA draws its current content from both scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, so it will appeal to both casual users and serious scholars. It indexes a variety of documents, such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. And IIPA covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more.

The full-text version, IIPA Full Text gives you the complete IIPA index with the addition of the full text of articles in 30 core journals. IIPA Full Text allows start-to-finish research in a single resource, offering full text delivery of the most important performing arts resources.

IIPA allows for precise retrieval of information from a dozen combinable fields: All Keywords, Title Keyword, Author, Document Type, Publication, Language, Country of Publication, Publication Date, ISSN, and IIPA Full Text Number. For records from 1998 forward, you can also search by Subject Categories and Subject Terms. You can perform adjacency/proximity searching, truncation, and Boolean searching both within and across fields of the database. Search results are displayed in reverse chronological order, i.e., most recently published information first.

A distinguished Advisory Board was established to oversee work on the IIPA project:

IIPA and IIPA Full Text are updated monthly. To see current numbers of citations and full-text articles, click on "More Information" from the IIPA or IIPA Full Text home page, then select "What's new."

 

HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS ONLINE
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HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS ONLINE FULL TEXT

The New York Times and The Times� of London capture the history of the world. With Historical Newspapers Online, library patrons can now search the electronic indexes of these two English-language "newspapers of record" simultaneously. With Historical Newspapers Online Full Text, patrons can go a step further and read the full text of news articles.

Historical Newspapers Online gives you millions of citations to the indexes of these papers. A straightforward interface makes searching them simple. Users can define their queries in a number of search fields, including keyword, main heading, page number and date range/decade. Boolean and proximity search operators also may be used, as well as wildcards and truncation. If you subscribe to Historical Newspapers Online Full Text, you can move directly from citations to the articles themselves for those stories appearing in The Times� of London between 1785 and 1870.

With Historical Newspapers Online:

Historical Newspapers Online provides:

Historical Newspapers Online Full Text provides:

 

PERIODICALS CONTENTS INDEX (PCI)
Electronic access to the full text of historical articles from more than 3,000 journals

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) is an enormous electronic index that contains more than 10 million citations to articles in over 3,000 journals from 1770 to 1990. These journals, from around the world, represent popular and scholarly titles in the humanities and social sciences. They cover 23 broad subject areas, and 1,000,000 citations are added to the product annually.

Periodicals Contents Index Full Text (PCI Full Text), to be released in October 1999, takes PCI a giant step further by offering the full text of journal articles you need, when you need them. With PCI Full Text, every time you request the full text of an article, that article will be added to a growing electronic repository. All subscribers will have access to articles contained within PCI Full Text. If your article is not immediately available, we will digitize it within 7 days and notify you by email when it has been added to the repository.

With PCI Full Text:

PCI Full Text provides:

Subscription Options:

 

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO BLACK PERIODICALS FULL TEXT

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (IIBP) is the only comprehensive current and retrospective index -- with full text -- to scholarly and popular periodical literature in Black Studies on the World Wide Web. It includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. IIBP also provides full-text coverage of 25 core Black Studies periodicals from 1998 forward. Retrospective coverage includes 180,000 citations from over 40 publications.

IIBP's coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline. The journal list was prepared with the guidance of an advisory board including librarians specializing in Black Studies.

Monthly updates ensure currency -- more than 15,000 articles published in 1999 will be indexed and abstracted. Users have the ability to limit their search to articles that provide full text. With the full text of articles from the most important Black Studies periodicals, plus access through precise thesaurus-controlled indexing and deep full-text searching, IIBP is a one-stop reference tool for international Black Studies research.

To see current numbers of citations and full-text articles, click on "More Information" from the IIBP home page, then select "What's new." To see a titles list, click on "Title List" from the IIBP home page.

 

ARCHIVES USA
A unique tool for researchers who use primary source materials

Chadwyck-Healey's ArchivesUSA gives users quick access to information on nearly 4,800 U.S. manuscript repositories and 109,000 special collections. It integrates three major information resources to give unparalleled access to collections and the repositories that hold them:

The NUCMC and NIDS information has been integrated to provide a single record for each collection.

ArchivesUSA is easy to use and provides thorough research results:

ArchivesUSA is available as an annual subscription on the World Wide Web. Prices are based on the user access level you select and your library's budget.

POLICY FILE

PolicyFile is the only electronic database indexing research and publication abstracts addressing the complete range of public policy research. It's the only non-partisan database currently available tracking public policy research from a wide variety of sources including policy think tanks, university research programs, publishers and research groups -- more than 350 organizations are tracked and updated weekly! The database is a highly unique resource providing detailed bibliographic information on the complete range of difficult-to-find though highly relevant public policy research.

Some well-known contributors include: American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and The World Bank.

PolicyFile also gives you quick single-click links to the organizations' home pages, electronic mail addresses, abstracts, and --wherever available -- the full text of the article.

PolicyFile covers all public policy issues with abstracts available on everything from trade with Asia to health care reform, from telecommunications regulation to the European Union, from terrorism to intelligence reform, from Bosnia to Superfund -- 77 subjects in all.

 

LITERARY JOURNALS INDEX FULL TEXT (LIFT)

Literary Journals Index Full Text (LIFT) is the only current index to the key journals in literature. It is also the only literary journal reference with abstracts and full text.

Combining the power of thesaurus-controlled indexing with the added depth of abstract and full-text searching, LIFT enables retrieval not possible in any other resource.

LIFT covers over 200 journals starting from 1998, with 30 of key journals in full text within the product, and links to many other journals in full text on the web. As a bonus, LIFT also provides retrospective coverage, with author- and title-keyword access, of over 1.2 million additional articles.

Together with ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature), researchers have complete and current bibliographic coverage of important material, along with abstracts and current full text from the most important literary journals.

(Subscribers to the complete collections of Literature Online (LION) receive LIFT and ABELL as part of their LION subscription.)

For a list of the titles covered in LIFT, to the product home page and click on the "Titles" button in the graphic. For an update on current numbers of citations, abstracts, and full-text articles, click on "What's New."

 

ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITEREATURE (ABELL)

The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) has long been regarded as an essential resource for teachers and students of the English language and of literature in English. Issued in annual printed volumes since 1921, Chadwyck-Healey publishes it in its entirety on the Web. The Web version makes ABELL more easily accessible.

ABELL covers monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews collections of essays and doctoral dissertations. Its range of sources has always been international, and its coverage of the literature in the period 1920 to 1955 in particular is unmatched. ABELL's inclusion of book reviews and critical editions provides a deeper coverage than any other bibliography.

Together with Literary Journals Index Full Text (LIFT), researchers have unmatched coverage of bibliographic information that is not available in any other bibliography. With these two resources combined, users have complete and current bibliographic coverage, along with abstracts and current full text from the most important literary journals. (Subscribers to the complete collections of Literature Online (LION) receive LIFT and ABELL as part of their LION subscription.)

 

DIGITAL NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) is the most comprehensive collection of declassified documents available online. Chadwyck-Healey is the official publishing partner the National Security Archive (Washington, DC), recognized as holder of the most comprehensive and critical collections of declassified documents. DNSA encompasses 50 years of history and uses primary documents to illustrate the making of U.S. policy. For libraries with an interest in primary materials, DNSA is a pivotal learning tool.

Thirty-five thousand documents (250,000 pages) of White House communications, secret letters, intelligence reports, confidential memoranda, e-mails, and more are easily accessible with more than 20 different, combinable search fields.

DNSA is much more than a collections of documents! Users will find biographies, subject indexing, chronologies, glossaries, photographs, and an overview of each event - enhancing the value of the primary documents by adding important contextual information.

DNSA is a dynamic database. Currently, the product contains the following 12 collections. Two to four additional collections are added annually. Libraries that have been purchasing the National Security Archive materials from Chadwyck-Healey on microfiche will recognize these collections:

 

THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE CATALOG

The American Film Institute Catalog is the premier resource for studying American motion pictures and the most comprehensive national filmography in the world. Now Chadwyck-Healey is making the electronic version of the AFI Catalog available for the first time.

The AFI Catalog, on CD-ROM with corresponding Web access, will be released this September. CD owners will receive a free year of Web access; thereafter there is a nominal annual Web access fee.

The Catalog, which in print currently comprises five volumes documenting all films produced in the United States from 1893 to 1970 (excluding 1951-1960), is an esteemed and highly reputable research tool for students of film. It is a unique filmographic resource—a standard in libraries throughout the world. The reputation for quality, comprehensiveness, accuracy, and level of detail is unmatched. Each volume takes AFI staff several years to complete. They are currently at work on the 1950s volume—it will not be available for several years. Leveraging the AFI name and reputation for quality and in-depth research will help ensure the success of the electronic version.

The process of creating a catalog volume is a painstaking one of locating and viewing films and researching studio records and contemporary and modern resources to produce thousands of unbiased entries on films ranging from well-known studio blockbusters to obscure, once-lost period films.

The Catalog is an unmatched tool for film research and preservation activities—recording the development of the moving image as a unique means of artistic and cultural expression in the 20th century.

2. What are the hardware and software requirements for using all the features of the product?

Software Requirements:

Web subscriptions are optimized to operate with Netscape Navigator Version 2.0 or higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 3.0 or higher

Hardware Requirements

The minimum specification for hardware depends on the Internet browser software being used. However, Chadwyck-Healey recommends the following specifications for PC users:

Internet Access:

Full connection to the Internet, including either a leased line running TCP/IP software on the client workstation or a SLIP or PP connection is required.

Please contact us if your hardware and software do not meet these specifications. We will tell you if you can access the products with your current resources.

3. Is remote access included for the subscription price?  If there are additional charges or requirements in order to offer remote access, please describe.   What methods of remote access are supported?

The subscription price covers authorized users, defined as the currently enrolled students, faculty, and staff of the institution that has subscribed to the database. Visiting scholars and public patrons are considered authorized users when on the site. Registered students who are enrolled in distant learning courses may be authorized users, so long as the distance learning site is not actually a separate site which should be paying for its own subscription.

Our web subscriptions are IP authenticated. It's the library's responsibility to ensure that only authorized users off-site have access to the data using, for example, a proxy server.

4. Please discuss any methods or assistance you offer regarding remote access patron verification and authentication.

Chadwyck-Healey currently does not have software that will authorize remote users but is working on this feature now.

5. What end user delivery options, such as printing, emailing or faxing results, are available beyond just viewing results on the computer monitor?

Users may print results or save them to a disc. We are right now enhancing our software to allow for faxing and email search results.

6. What customer training is provided, and at what cost?

Our software is intuitive and user-friendly and generally requires no training. However, we will happily arrange some regional training sessions after the offer closes, at no charge to libraries.

7. What customer and technical support is provided, including hours of operation.

Our technical support staff is available by toll-free phone or by email, between 9 AM and 5 PM Monday through Friday. Extensive, context-sensitive online help is always at hand.

8. Describe the statistics you provide, and discuss whether your statistical reporting complies with guidelines developed by the International Coalition of Library Consortia which may be found at www.library.yale.edu/consortia/webstats.html .

We currently do not provide usage stats that are in line with the ICOLC guidelines. However, the in-progress software enhancements mentioned in item #4 also include planned statistical reporting capabilities. We are using the ICOLC statement as our guide.

9. Describe your pricing structure or formula for the product. If there are additional costs for retrieving full text, describe the pricing for this service. 

For academic libraries, we base our price on a combination of the access level the library selects and the library's book budget. For most products, only libraries with book budgets over $500,000 pay list price. Through this consortium offer, if at least twenty libraries from the group place orders for at least one product each, no library will pay list price - not even those with the largest book budgets.

For public libraries, we base pricing on the population served, and we do not add charges for branches. Through this consortium offer, no library will pay list price. (Please note: Chadwyck-Healey does not sell Literature Online and Digital National Security Archive to public libraries or K-12 schools. Please contact Bell and Howell Information and Learning, which is the exclusive distributor of Literature Online and Digital National Security Archive to public libraries and K-12 schools.)

For the products we are offering, prices are in the following ranges. For your library's exact price, please contact your Chadwyck-Healey sales representative.

LITERATURE ONLINE COMPLETE COLLECTION
List price: $20,800
Washington State price range: $2,625 to $18,900

LITERATURE ONLINE POETRY COLLECTION
List price: $9,200
Washington State price range: $840 to $8,400

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO MUSIC PERIODICALS List Price : $2,495
Washington State price range : $1,095 to $1,995

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO MUSIC PERIODICALS FULL TEXT
List Price : $4,995
Washington State price range : $2,095 to $3,995

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO THE PERFORMING ARTS
List Price : $2,495
Washington State price range : $1,095 to $1,995

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO THE PERFORMING ARTS FULL TEXT
List Price : $4,995
Washington State price range : $2,695 to $3,995

HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS ONLINE
List Price : $5,000
Washington State price range : $1,350 to $4,500

HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS ONLINE FULL TEXT
List Price : $10,000
Washington State prices range : $3,150 to $9,000

PERIODICALS CONTENTS INDEX
List Price : $12,600
Washington State price range : $840 to $10,500

INTERNATIONAL INDEX TO BLACK PERIODICALS
List Price : $3,995
Washington State : $2,195 to $3,195

ARCHIVES USA
List Price : $1,995
Washington State price range: $446 to $1,796

POLICY FILE
List Price : $1,995
Washington State price range : $836 to $1,592

DIGITAL NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE
List Price: $4,500
Washington State price range : $675 to $4,050

LITERARY JOURNALS INDEX FULL TEXT
List Price : $4,700
Washington State price range: $2,000 to $4,300

ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (ABELL)
List Price: $1,895
Washington State price range: $1,013 to $1,706

AMERICAN FILM INDEX CATALOG ON CD
List Price: $1,995
Washington State price range: $1,695

10. What is the minimum participation level (however you care to define it) that would be needed to allow participating libraries to receive a discount? What is the minimum discount for a group buy? Please clarify how you would treat existing library customers with regard to a group buy.

As long as at least 20 libraries from the group place orders for at least one product each, we will offer consortium discounts to all orders. These discounts generally range from 10% to 90% off list price, depending on the variables explained in #9.

11.  Please provide name and contact information (toll-free telephone number, e-mail address, hours, etc.) should libraries wish to make further inquires.

Julia Lee, Sales Representative
[email protected]
Phone: 800-752-0515
Fax: 703-683-7589
Chadwyck-Healey Inc
1101 King St
Alexandria VA 22314

9 AM to 5 PM EST

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