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(Note from the Washington State Library: In order to participate in the Fall 2000 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.
For colleges and universities, all CIS Universe Web Services are available for unlimited student and faculty use. For public libraries, the service allows unlimited use within the library building.
For more information on all of our products, please visit our Web site at http://www.cispubs.com.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
(Available for colleges and universities only. Please inquire for a trial)
Currently, more than 5.8 million students in over 1,200 colleges and universities subscribe to this powerful product. Subscriptions are available either via negotiated consortia contracts or individual institution pricing. Comprised of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information, t he service spans nearly 5,300 titles, the majority of which are offered in full text. (The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits.) News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily.
Research areas in LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe cover today's news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics (in full text), and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; the U.S. Code; and state codes and case law.
CIS Congressional Universe
No other database, Web-based or otherwise, covers congressional information as comprehensively as the CIS Congressional Universe service. The reliable indexing and abstracting of the CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress from 1970 forward sets CIS Congressional Universe apart from other services. But the service is far more than the CIS/Index on the web. It provides a seamless link to the full range of legislative and public policy full-text resources, including:
Update Schedule: Indexing and abstracting updated monthly. For a full update schedule, please visit our web page at http://www.cispubs.com.
Target Audience: CIS Congressional Universe's ease of use and direct links to the full texts of documents let even inexperienced researchers find their way easily to the material they need.
CIS Statutes at Large
CIS Statistical Universe
CIS Statistical Universe provides the most comprehensive and user-friendly access to statistical data on the Web today.
Update Schedule: Links to government Web sites are validated daily, so there are no dead ends. Indexing and abstracting updated monthly.
PowerTables: Effective immediately: CIS/LEXIS-NEXIS has completed a dramatic redesign of its Statistical Universe database. A completely new module called PowerTables has been added to the database, and is now required for all subscriptions to Statistical Universe.
The PowerTables Base Edition offers users the ability to find statistical data without any prior knowledge of CIS products. Users will be able to search directly for a table based on subject terms, coverage date, and other criteria. Each table in PowerTables is accompanied by a link to the CIS abstract describing the document in which the table appears and a PDF file of the complete document. The PowerTables Base Edition will contain over 25,000 tables with source materials from federal, state, and international publications. Additional tables will be added throughout the year, with 25,000 new tables added annually.
Coming in spring 2001, an optional Research Table Set of 125,000 indexed tables, with links to GIFs of tables, and links to full-text PDFs of 125K tables will also be available, dependent on the A&I subscriptions to ASI, SRI, and IIS.
ASI, SRI and IIS Abstract and Index Modules In the redesigned product, the full-text documents that used to be available as optional modules have now been incorporated into the Federal, State/Private, and International Abstract and Index modules. � Links to all abstract & index records of purchased modules. � ASI abstract/index data for more than 5,000 federal statistical publications per year from 1973 to the present; � SRI abstracts and indexes from 1980 to the present. SRI covers more than 1,000 issuing sources from trade, professional, and other nonprofit associations and institutes; business organizations; commercial publishers; independent research organizations; state government agencies; and universities and affiliated research centers. � IIS abstracts and indexes from 1983 to the present. IIS is the master guide and index to English language statistical publications of 100 major international intergovernmental organizations.
CIS State Capital Universe
Search for information about one state, any combination of states, or all 50 states -- all from a single, comprehensive Web source. Information includes bills and laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, legislature membership, and newspapers of record.
Abstracts from the Martindale-Hubbell State Law Digest, as well as public policy analysis from State Capitol Journal and the NCSL Legisbrief published by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Enables researchers to:
- Compare law and public policy developments.
- Monitor proposed and enacted state laws.
- Analyze national and regional trends.
- Get facts about state legislators and their staffs.
- Access state newspapers of record.
CIS Government Periodicals Universe
- Comprehensive access to bibliographic information on the US government's most important periodicals. GPU is updated quarterly. With each update, the service adds bibliographic information on approximately 2,200 articles in approximately 160 current publications that reflect the enormous diversity of federal interests.
- Retrospective coverage through 1988 provides even more opportunities for exploration, with indexing to more than 90 additional federal publications of major research, reference, or general interest value.
CIS History Universe
Access to African-American Studies: This new, Web-based research service in the CIS History Universe suite provides information compiled by well-known experts for the study of African American History. This 100% full-text database will continue to grow with quarterly updates of new material.
Contents:
- All major federal legislation pertaining to race from 1792 to the present.
- Complete U.S. Supreme Court decisions on race from 1806 to the present.
- 900 Reference Articles, which are essential background works
- Manuscript materials for primary historical research
- Autobiographies
- Scholarly Articles from academic journals and anthologies
- Photographs
- Colonial-era legislation and judicial decisions
- Updated quarterly with 1,000 new documents per quarter
This product is especially useful for undergraduate or high school research.
Access to Women's Studies:
Contents:
- Complete text of all major federal legislation pertaining to women and gender from 1855 to the present.
- Full text of all federal statutes concerning gender and women passed by the U.S. Congress, subjects covering the suffrage movement, job discrimination, abortion, and other gender-related issues in the 19th and 29th century.
- Complete U.S. Supreme Court Decisions on gender and women from 1809 to the present � Over 500 reference articles � Autobiographies of American women from the 18th through the 20th centuries.
- State laws and court cases concerning women and gender.
- Manuscript selections that afford beginning researchers opportunities to experience the excitement of primary historical research-key documents and series of documents important to American women's history from the early 19th through the 20th centuries. Students can interpret for themselves the impact of major reform movements or the effects of key regulatory and statutory changes, evolving conceptions of spousal relationships, and much more.
- Photographs
- Updated quarterly.
2. What are the hardware and software requirements for using all the features of the product(s)?
Netscape 4.x or Internet Explorer 4.x or 5.x
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?
None currently. Academic institutions can offer remote access to students through the use of a proxy server.
4. Please discuss any methods or assistance you offer regarding remote access patron verification and authentication.
None currently
5. What end user delivery options, such as printing, e-mailing or faxing results, are available beyond just viewing results on the computer monitor?
6. What customer training is provided, and at what cost? Please include "freebies" such as Web-based tutorials, end-user documentation tents, cheat-sheets, etc.
Free training is provided by CIS Sales Representatives. Free instruction materials: FactBooks, Quick Guides, and a monthly e-mail newsletter are available at http://www.cispubs.com
7. What customer and technical support is provided, including hours of operation? In your reply, please include the phone numbers and e-mail addresses for your support services.
Lexis-Nexis Customer Service department is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year at (800) 897-3419. Customer account number must be provided at time of call. This number is for librarians only.
8. Please describe the statistics you provide, and discuss whether your statistical reporting complies in part or in whole with the guidelines developed by the International Coalition of Library Consortia which may be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/webstats.html
We provide web based statistics which comply with the International Coalition of Library Consortia guidelines
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. If you cannot provide a standard price list that would enable each library to understand their cost to subscribe, then for each product you must tell us the list price that you would charge these hypothetical libraries. (It's fine to say "not applicable" for any libraries that would not buy your product.) If you need additional details about these libraries, let us know:
CIS Congressional Universe: (supplies access to all terminals within the library building) Main Library $5,040 Each Additional Branch $600 Congressional Universe - Base $600
CIS Statutes-At-Large on CIS Congressional Universe Main Library $995 Branch - Congressional Universe w/Statutes at Large $995
CIS State Capital Universe: (supplies access to all terminals within the library building) Main Library $3,000 Each Additional Branch $450
CIS Statistical Universe: (supplies access to all terminals within the library building) PowerTables (required) Main Library $4,500 Each Additional Branch $200
Federal Service Abstracting and Indexing Module (Optional) Main Library $1,200 Each Additional Branch $200
State and Private Service Abstracting and Indexing Module (Optional): Main Library $1,200 Each Additional Branch $200
International Service Abstracting and Indexing Module (Optional) Main Library $1,200 Each Additional Branch $200
History Universe: Access to African American Studies: (supplies access to all terminals within the library building) Main Library $1,875 Each Additional Branch $500
History Universe: Access to Women's Studies; (supplies access to all terminals within the library building) Main Library $1,875 Each additional Branch $500
10. If a library subscribes to any of your products as a result of this trial, will their future subscription rates continue to reflect any savings or discount they may receive today?
Consortium discounts based on number of members, which can change from year to year.
11. 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? How will you would treat existing library customers with regard to a group buy?
We don't offer group discounts, unless a consortium is formed This requires having a consortium administrator designated. CIS will send one bill to the administrator, who then bills the participating libraries. We offer discounts based on the number of participating libraries.
12. Please indicate whether libraries from Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and/or Hawaii are eligible to participate in the group buying process.
Eligible.
13. Please provide the name and contact information (toll-free telephone number, e-mail address, hours, etc.) for libraries to make further inquires.
Kelly Skogseth, MLS
Regional Library Representative
Congressional Information Service, Inc.
University Publications of America
[email protected]
1-800-638-8380 ext. 6010 (24 hour voicemail)
541-830-4402 (office: 8am - 5pm Monday - Friday)