Inspec

Benefits

• Special Summer Offer: Inspec Archive (data fee) has been discounted until 31 August 2011
• Price reduction for smaller sites
• A saving of at least 15% for all sites
• Service provision tender for price comparison and transparency

Eligible Institutions

This Agreement is available to Higher and Further Education institutions in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Research Councils and selected Chest Associated Sites.

Background Information

This is a renewal of an agreement that has been in existence for 15 years.

Supplier Details

Owner: The Institution of Engineering & Technology  Service Provider: Please see the Service Provider comparison table (XLS, 71 Kb) .

Product Description

• Inspec & Inspec Archive (1898 to the present)
• Inspec Only (1969 to the present)
• Inspec Archive (1898 to 1968) outright purchase

For details of the other IET products available through a Chest Agreement, please see the IET Digital Library page

Inspec® 1969 – present day

Content
Around 5000 scientific and technical journals and some 2500 conference proceedings, as well as numerous books, reports and dissertations are scanned each year by Inspec staff for relevant articles to abstract and index for inclusion in the Database. Of the 5000 journals, around 1600 are indexed cover-to-cover.

Key features

• Global coverage - 11 million records containing abstracts and subject indexing covering scientific and engineering literature from quality global literature from 1969.
• Comprehensive coverage - in the fields of electronics, computer science, physics, electrical, control, production and mechanical engineering – Over 11 million records.
• Specialised subject indexing by experts that retrieves accurate and extensive results.
• Archive file from 1898-1968
• Updated weekly to provide timely information
• Web links to the original article (where available) - currently 70 per cent of journal articles
• Flexible pricing options and range of products that satisfies all budgets

The Inspec® Archive 1898 - 1968

Key Features

• Fully searchable electronic access to over 70 year of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control engineering
• 837,000 abstracts
• Gives easier access to a wealth of knowledge gathered since 1898.
• Elimination of the need to keep ageing print volumes: saves on storage costs, your time and frees-up library shelving.
• High-quality English language records with value added indexing plus modern indexing: allows for simple searches across consistently indexed records.
• Complements the main Inspec database: extend coverage from 1898 to date
• Access through many Service Providers

Flexible pricing options

As library space becomes a premium, print copies of early abstract journals are becoming scarce. To overcome this, Inspec digitised the entire collection of Science Abstracts Journals (back to volume one) dating from 1898 to 1968. The Science Abstracts Journals were the precursor to the Inspec database. The subject coverage is:

• All aspects of physics (originally published as Physics Abstracts)
• Electrical and electronic engineering (introduced as a separate journal in 1903, and originally published as Electrical and Electronic Abstracts)
• Computing and control engineering (introduced as a separate journal in 1966, and published initially as Control Abstracts, later renamed to Computer and Control Abstracts)

The backfile contains

• 837,000 abstracts
• The original value-added indexing and classifications
• Enhancements in the form of the nearest equivalent current Inspec Thesaurus Terms and Inspec Classification Codes
• Conference proceedings, books, journals, reports and dissertations

Access and Identity Management Solution

Key - Available Not Available

Athens
IP Address range
Shibboleth
Username / Password

Availability of the above depends on the Service Provider selected.  Please see the Service Provider comparison table (XLS, 71 Kb) .

Technical Function Specification

Key - Available Not Available Additional Cost

Updates

Inspec is updated weekly.

Alterations / Additions

• Inspec is updated weekly.
• Additions to the content are included under this agreement at no additional cost.
• Improvements to the different interfaces may be made from time to time throughout the agreement and any additional functionality will be included without further charge.

Pricing

Pricing is restricted to .ac.uk domains.  Please click the below links for the relevant pricing:

• Regular Data fees for Inspec and Inspec Archive  (XLS, 33 Kb)   (PDF, 458 Kb) 
• Service Provision fees (XLS, 80 Kb)   

If you cannot see the pricing because you are an Irish or an Associated site - or for any other reason - please email help@eduserv.org.uk  

"Tier 1” includes all Licensed Institutions included by the JISC in their Eligible Institution Bands A, B and C. “Tier 2” includes all Licensed Institutions included by the JISC in their Eligible Institution Bands D to J. At the time of writing information about the banding of JISC Eligible Institutions is available at the JISC Collections website at JISC Collections Banding.

And in addition:

Payment Terms

This Agreement is of 5 years duration, commencing 1st September 2008 and terminating on 31st August 2013. Institutions may sign to the Agreement at any time during that period. On receipt of a completed Licence, Institutions will be invoiced for both the data and the service provision fees for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed. For the subsequent year, Institutions will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement, on 1st June annually. There is monthly, pro-rata charging of the Data fee for Institutions which become licensed partway through a licence year. All Purchase Orders must be made out to Eduserv and Eduserv's invoices must be paid within 30 calendar days of the date of the invoice.

Agreement Period

Start date: 1 September 2008         End date: 30 August 2013

Institution Commitment Period

This Agreement commences 1 September 2008 and terminates 30 August 2013. Institutions may participate at any time during the period.  Licences may be taken for a 1, 2, 3 or 5 year period.

How to Order

Please complete each of the following forms to subscribe to Inspec:

1. Order form (DOC, 126 Kb)  
2. Service Provider Order form (DOC, 86 Kb)  (this should be completed even in your institution is continuing to use the same service provider)
3. Licence (Schedule 4) (DOC, 53 Kb)  
4. Purchase Order for the full amount due plus VAT, made payable to 'Eduserv'

When completed all of the above forms should be returned using one of the following methods:

• As a PDF by email to finance@eduserv.org.uk
• By fax to 01225 474301
• By post to:
  Eduserv
  Royal Mead
  Railway Place
  Bath
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If you have any queries, please email us at help@eduserv.org.uk or call Aimee on 01225 470 523.

The IET Digital Library is also available using the same order form and Licence (Schedule 4) as above for Inspec.  Full details of the IET Digital Library

Licence Type

Site licence with normal Eduserv Chest terms and conditions Eduserv Chest General Licence Conditions for Data and Special Licence Conditions.

What institutions and library services are allowed to do?

Allowed Not Allowed
Inter-Library Loan
Incorporate parts of the licensed materials in printed or electronic course materials
Include material in Jorum or Institutional repositories	with restrictions (must speak to The IET)
Keep a local cached copy for teaching purposes

Who can use the resource?

Authorised Users

'Authorised User' means a type of user who is a currently registered student of the Licensee, a faculty member or an employee of the Licensee, in each case authorised by the Licensee to access the Licensee's library and information services whether from a computer or terminal on the Licensee's Secure Network or offsite via a Secure Access Management System or, in the case of Licensed Materials, access to the Licensee's onsite library facilities.
For full details see: Eduserv General Licence Conditions and the Special Conditions.

Other Permitted Users:

The following categories of User are permitted to have access to the Products via a Licensee’s library and information services whether from a computer terminal on the Licensee’s Secure Network or offsite via a Secure Access Management System or via the Licensee’s onsite library facilities:

• students undertaking a course of study leading to a qualification awarded by the Licensee;
• teachers of Authorised Users and librarians involved in their instruction and support who are not employed by the Licensed Institution;
• retired members of staff of a Licensed Institution;
• visiting academics, researchers and research supervisors from other educational or research establishments if they are working there on a recognised programme, or exchange
• visiting students from other educational establishments if they are working there on a recognised programme, or exchange. 
• walk-in User means a person other than an Authorised User who is permitted to access the secure network of the Licensed Institutions only via a computer or terminal within the Licensed User's premises

Alumni Prohibited: For the purposes of this Agreement "Alumni" means former staff and students of an Institution. This Agreement DOES NOT permit such use.

Allowed Not Allowed
Any student studying at another institution who is undertaking a course of study leading to a qualification awarded by the Licensee
Teachers of Authorised Users and librarians involved in their instruction and support who are not employed by the Licensed Institution
Retired members of staff of a Licensed Institution
Bona fide members of a Licensee's Alumni Association
Visiting academics, researchers and research supervisors from other educational or research establishments
Visiting students from other educational establishments
Any person associated with the Licensee but not employed by the Licensee such as pastoral and welfare workers or support people
Walk-in Users (a member of the public permitted by a licensed institution to use the library)

What can authorised users do?

The resource can be used for:
•    teaching
•    research
•    personal educational development
•    administration and management of the business of the Licensee's organisation
•    development work associated with any of the above

Exclusions:
•    Use the product for commercial purposes (i.e. monetary gain) or for any purpose other than educational use
•    Work of direct benefit to the employer of students on industrial placement
•    Non-authorised users; they must not be given access, print or download the resource(s) or allowed to make a copy of any licensed materials
•    Downloading of large amounts of material that might be considered "systematic"

Termination Clauses

Access is granted only during the term of the subscription. No archival access is granted after termination or at end of subscription unless the perpetual option has been purchased. Material downloaded during the Agreement can continue to be used under the same licence conditions as pertain while the Agreement exists.

Personal Licences

Personal Licences are not available under this Agreement.

Trials

For a free trial of up to 30 days for this service please contact Eduserv Help at help@eduserv.org.uk

Login Information

All service provider information can be found in the Service Provider comparison table (XLS, 71 Kb) .

Technical Support

Support will be provided by service providers. Please see the Service Provider comparison table (XLS, 71 Kb) .

Product Documentation

Comprehensive help files are included in Service Provider’s service. Please see the Service Provider comparison table (XLS, 71 Kb) .
Copying of hardcopy and electronic documentation is permitted as long as it will not exceed that permitted by the Copyright Licensing Agency agreement. 

Training and Training Materials

For details of training offered by each service provider please see the Service Provider comparison table (XLS, 71 Kb) .

System Requirements

Each provider has given this information in the Service Provider comparison table (XLS, 71 Kb) .