Winter Trials 2002

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Note from the Washington State Library: In order to participate in the Winter 2002 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). If you want us to link to more than one product, provide a unique description for each product. Be sure we know what information belongs with each product. If there are special hardware or software needs, please make sure you include them in this description. When you provide a description of your product, please go beyond the typical advertising brochure text. We are hoping for a thoughtful, descriptive paragraph that will enable someone unfamiliar with your product to understand the nature and coverage of your product. The more concise the description, the better.

The Nation, America's oldest continuously published weekly magazine presents a searchable digital archive encompassing 135 years of reporting, opinion, and criticism.

This immensely important collection of primary source material will be indispensable to anyone interested in the history of politics, culture, books, and the arts -- in America and around the world.

The archive is a breathtaking assemblage of words and images from the most thought-provoking writers, activists and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - from the Civil War up to the Millennium.

This indispensable compendium of primary source material includes every article, editorial, review, poem, and puzzle published since Volume I, Number 1 on July 6, 1865. The original illustrations and advertisements are also included in this exceptional archive.

The archive is accessible, on a subscription basis, via the World Wide Web. Users can view high-resolution images of the original magazine pages - nearly 200,000 in all. In addition, the full text of the entire collection is searchable by word or phrase.

A powerful Web-enabled database application combined with Adobe's Acrobat Reader® software allows browsing by index categories as well as advanced full-text searching restricted by date range, author, title, or subject.

The Nation Digital Archive will make it possible for scholars and other researchers to access this invaluable historical material in ways never before possible.

2. 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? If applicable, please discuss any methods or assistance you offer regarding remote access patron verification and authentication.

You may only use The Nation Digital Archive via remote access if you qualify as an Authorized User and your institution provides this facility through a secure server.

3. What customer training is provided, and at what cost? Please include "freebies" such as Web-based tutorials, end-user documentation tents, cheat-sheets, etc.

Training is available upon request at no charge. Training consists of a walk through over the phone with a Nation representative. A demo is also provided on the website.

4. What customer and technical support is provided, including hours of operation? In your reply, please include contact names (if applicable) or name of department, the phone numbers and e-mail addresses for your support services. If you have toll-free access to these support centers, please make sure they are available here.

Technical support is available via e-mail and on the telephone at 1-800-350-6944.

5. 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 found at http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/webstats.html

1. Statistical Requirements:
1. yes - by each specific database & provider
2. yes - by each institutionally defined set of IP addresses/locators to subnet level
3. yes - by total consortium
4. yes - by special data element passed by subscriber
5. yes - except #2 full text displayed broken down by title, ISSN with title listed or other title identifier as appropriate - by time period
2. Privacy and User Confidentiality - Agreed
3. Institutional or Consortial Confidentiality - Agreed
4. Comparative Statistics - Agreed
5. Access/Delivery Mechanism/ Report Formats - Access to reports will be provide via email on a quarterly basis

6. Describe your pricing structure or formula for the product. If there are additional costs for retrieving full text, describe the pricing for this service. (Note: This question means - we want to know what your list prices are and how you calculate your prices: Based on FTEs? On buildings? On a combination, or on something else?)

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.
a. Library A: A high school library with 750 students in grades 9-12
b. Library B: A public library that serves a population of 100,000 and has two branches
c. Library C: A public library that serves a population of 20,000 and has only one building, no branches
d. Library D: A community college library serving 5,000 full-time equivalent students
e. Library E: A four-year academic library serving 5,000 full-time equivalent students
f. Library F: A hospital library serving a hospital that employees 1,000 staff plus has 200 doctors attached to the hospital

Pricing for access to The Nation Digital Archive is based on the greater of Carnegie Classification or FTE with the exception of Associate or Community Colleges where a Carnegie Classification applies.

We offer two access plans:

Continuing Access
Users pay (1) a one-time Continuing Access Fee (CAF) for ongoing access rights to information in the archive and (2) an Annual Maintenance Fee (AMF) to cover the costs of technical maintenance and updates. Pricing for the Continuing Access Fee is tiered according to institutional classification. The Annual Maintenance Fee is 20% of the Continuing Access Fee.

10-year No-fee Option
Libraries that wish to dispense with annual maintenance fees can opt for 10-year no-fee access. The institution pays one fee and receives 10 years of access with annual updates and any software upgrades. After the 10 years, it will be necessary for the institution to re-subscribe to some form of continuing access.

7. 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?

Yes

8. 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 treat existing library customers with regard to a group buy?

We will automatically give a 10% discount to participating libraries. The discounts are as follows:

0- 50,000	10%
50,001-80,000	20%
>80,001	25%

9. Please provide the name and contact information (toll-free telephone number, e-mail address, hours, etc.) for libraries to make further inquires. (Sales representatives for our area preferred.)

Contact information:

Michelle Anciello The Nation Digital Archive 888.685.2632 x171 [email protected]

Joseph Collins Kanda Software 888.685.2632 x164 [email protected]