Washington State Library
Statewide Database Licensing Project

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Welcome to the Washington State Spring 2000
Database Trials

          General Database Trial Products  

 CINAHL 

SDL / ORBIS CINAHL Evaluation

Aries Systems
    Aries CINAHL product description
    

 

 

  OCLC 
    OCLC product description
    

 

Bell & Howell's ProQuest Bell & Howell 
   
Bell & Howell product description 
 

 

 

   Ovid
    Ovid product description
  

 

  CINAHL Direct
    CINAHL Direct product description
   

 

  SilverPlatter
    SilverPlatter product description
  

 

EBSCO EBSCO
    EBSCO product descriptions
  

 

   

 

General Databases

  Ancestry.com
    Ancestry.com product description
    

 

  Grolier
    Grolier product description
    

 

 

Baker and Taylor Baker and Taylor EBIS
    EBIS product description 
   

 

 

 

 

 

HRAF
    HRAF product descriptions
   

 

Bell & Howell's ProQuest Bell & Howell 
   
Bell & Howell product description 
  

 

 

INET Library
    INET Library product description
  

 

Big Chalk Big Chalk
    Big Chalk product description
    

 

 

 

LEXIS-NEXIS
    Lexis-Nexis product descriptions
   

 

Bowker

Bowker

Bowker
    Books in Print product description
    

    Ulrich's product description
    


        

 

McGraw Hill
    AccessScience product description
    

 

 

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
   
CSA product descriptions
   


NICEM NICEM
    NICEM product description
    
CARL CARL's Dialog Basic Collection
    Dialog product description
    

 

  OCLC FirstSearch
    OCLC product description
   

 

 

 

EBSCO

EBSCO
    EBSCO product descriptions
    

 

  OED (Oxford English Dictionary)
   

 

 

Electric Library Electric Library 
    for K-12 see Big Chalk
    for Public and Academic see Bell & Howell
   
 

SilverPlatter
    SilverPlatter product description
    

 

 

Facts on File
    Facts on File product description
   


SIRS

SIRS
   
SIRS product descriptions
   

 

Facts on File

Facts on File News Service
    FACTS.com product description
   

 

Softline Softline
  
Softline product description 

    

 

 Gale Group

Gale Group
    Gale Group's products descriptions
  

  Teton Data Systems's STAT!Ref
    STAT!Ref product description
 


   

 

 

H. W. Wilson H.W. Wilson
   
H.W. Wilson product descriptions
   

 

 

The world of cooperative database licensing 

Hello Legislators!

If you click on the ProQuest image below you'll be connected to the statewide database for Washington newspapers and full-text magazines. Usually a person would first enter an ID such as their library card number to prove they are authorized to use this commercial database. However, the database company, Bell and Howell, has given us permission to offer this more open access to help you understand what these products offer to users.

The Washington papers available to you include the Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Tacoma News Tribune, the Spokane Spokesman Review, and the Vancouver Columbian. Our statewide contract also include access to full text of the most recent 90 days of the New York Times.

At this time nearly all public libraries, all tribal libraries, most K-12 libraries, most four-year academic and two-year community college libraries, and all the state-funded research libraries offer access to their customers to this same database. The costs are subsidized through a federally-funded pilot project. Public libraries pay $.041 / population served for the access. Academic libraries pay $.78 / FTE.

(List price for a public library serving 1,000 people is $2,290 for the full-text magazines only.  Through the statewide license the price is $82 per year for the magazines and Washington newspapers.)

With any questions, or for more information, please contact Jeanne Crisp at the Washington State Library, [email protected],  360-704-5255.

Thank you for your interest!

 

The world of cooperative database licensing 
in Washington State!

Washington State libraries of all types are developing a cooperative approach to licensing commercial on-line databases.  The Washington State Library serves as a clearinghouse for information and participation, and efforts are guided by a Steering Committee that represents the state's whole library community.  Over 2,000 libraries offer their users the statewide full-text periodical and newspaper package that was licensed for the period October 1998 - December 2000.  About half the cost of this package was subsidized with federal Library Services and Technology Act money, with remaining funds coming from local budgets. 

Additionally, dozens of libraries have used local funds to participate in smaller group purchases for over a dozen additional databases.


Last Updated: 03/13/00