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EEI Inc Agreement for Compendex: Overview
Online Access to Engineering Village 2 (EV 2) including Compendex
Contents:
- 1. Agreement Details
- 2. Institutions which are eligible to participate
- 3. Background Detail / Community Evaluation
- 4. Description of products
- 5. Method of Access
- 6. Terminal / Network Requirements
- 7. Institution Evaluation
- 8. Licence Type
- 9. Personal Licences
- 10. Post Termination of Agreement Period
- 11. End User Rights
- 12. Product documentation
- 13. Right to Copy Documentation
- 14. Training and training materials
- 15. Alterations/Additions to Databases and New Functionality
- 16. Updates
- 17. Document Delivery
- 18. Initial Consultancy/Support
- 19. Pricing
- 20. Payment Terms
- 21. Access to Service and Downloading
- 22. Registration procedures
- 23. WWW Addresses
- 24. How to Order
1. Agreement Details
This Overview represents the detail of the Agreement for licensing of Engineering Village 2 including Compendex which has been negotiated by Eduserv Chest with Elsevier B. V. The following sections are written to enable Institutions to decide as to whether or not this agreement is appropriate for the needs of their institution.
i) Full title of each product available
Engineering Village 2 including Compendex
(ii) Product owner
Elsevier B. V
Sara Burgerhartstraat 25
1055 KV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
(iii) Product supplier
Elsevier B. V
Sara Burgerhartstraat 25
1055 KV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
(v) Agreement Period
This is a 5 year continuation of the current Agreement which has been extended from 8th December 2003, terminating on 7th December 2008, for Engineering Village 2 including Compendex.
Institutions may join at any time however they will be bound to the end of the agreement period 7th December 2008.
The Agreement to which this refers is a formal agreement between Eduserv (Chest) and Elsevier.
2. Institutions which are eligible to participate
This Agreement is available to HE and FE institutions, Research Councils and Associated sites in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Inclusion of other Institutions of Education in other parts of Europe will be with the joint approval of EEII and Chest.
3. Background Detail / Community Evaluation
CHEST first negotiated an agreement for Ei Data in 1993. Since then 76 sites have been licensed to access the data. This agreement provides for the service to be continued for an additional five years to 7th December 2008.
Regrettably the service will no longer be hosted at EDINA. There will be additional functionality added to the Engineering Village 2 Compendex service located in New Jersey USA. This includes:
- Combined searching of Compendex® and INSPEC® (for which a separate subscription is required) with de-duplication of records
- Considerable improvement in response time and speed
- Significant enhancements in page design
- Ability to limit your searches by Treatment type in Quick Search interface
- Option to turn autostemming on/off when you use Quick Search
- Ability to combine previous searches via the search history
- Free links to full-text journals, via Cross-Ref, for institutions that subscribe to the publishers' full-text service
- Custom links to library catalogues, and OPAC's using Open-URL
- Searching and links to full-text engineering handbooks from CRC Press for institutions that subscribe to ENGnetBASE.
- Improved navigation and use of search results including downloading, emailing and saving
- Refined personal profile, with email alerts, ability to create personal folders for results
- Access to Scirus, a comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet
- More database specific indexes for Compendex® and INSPEC®
- By the end of May 2003 a unique online thesaurus for Compendex and INSPEC will be launched, which allows searching and browsing of full thesaurus terms including the hierarchy of main, broader, narrower, and related terms.
4. Description of products
The following is adapted from literature provided by EEII.
Engineering Village 2 (EV2)
A Web-based information service that offers a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals and researchers working in the applied science and engineering fields.
Engineering Village 2 features access to the top information resources in the applied science, technical and engineering fields.
Compendex
Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research available today, containing references and abstracts to over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports. The broad subject areas of engineering and applied science are comprehensively represented. Coverage includes chemical and process engineering, computers and data processing, applied physics, electronics and communications, civil, mechanical and materials engineering, as well as narrower subtopics within all these major fields. Online coverage is from 1970 to the present. Around 250,000 new records are added to the database annually. Compendex is updated weekly to ensure access to critical developments in your field.
5. Method of Access
Compendex is accessible from most www browsers but particularly Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Secure user access shall be authorised by Athens login and if specifically requested by the site also by specified Internet Protocol (IP) address ranges.
6. Terminal / Network Requirements
Minimum VT100.
7. Institution Evaluation
For would-be subscribers that are recognised "Chest Sites", (see note 2) a 30 day trial is available by contacting Elsevier direct.
8. Licence Type
Site licence under the terms and conditions of Elsevier's "Licence Agreement for Electronic Publications and Information Services" a copy of which is available from Eduserv Chest. Chest Standard Terms and Conditions do not apply to this Agreement, except with regard to "Use", and sites are advised to check the contents of the document above, in order that they are aware of the conditions under which the data is provided.Downloading of the Data is allowed at any Institution for use by any member of staff or student in accordance with the standard "Code of Conduct" for the Use of Software or Data.
9. Personal Licences
Not available under this Agreement.
10. Post Termination of Agreement Period
Provided that the Licensee has fulfilled all conditions of this Licence the Licensee may continue to use information that has been downloaded after termination of the Agreement. Institutions will be advised of any intention to continue the service at least 6 months prior to the natural termination.
11. End User Rights
12. Product documentation
EEII will provide copies of such brochures as it produces from time to time. EEII will also provide such literature to Licensed Institutions upon request for internal copying and distribution.
13. Right to Copy Documentation
Copying of documentation produced by EEII. EEII states that "The right to copy is permitted within the international understanding of "Fair Use" and "Fair Dealing"".
14. Training and training materials
EEII will be providing a minimum of two "one-day" seminars per annum. The seminars will be provided at times and locations to be agreed between the two parties who will advise Chest of the chosen dates so that Chest may publicise the dates.
15. Alterations/Additions to Databases and New Functionality
Chest has agreed with EEII that any new databases will be subject to further negotiation. However, EEII has agreed that there will be no reduction in the content provided under this agreement consequent upon the release of any new database.
16. Updates
The data is being constantly updated and expanded.
17. Document Delivery
Document delivery is not covered by this agreement.
18. Initial Consultancy/Support
Support will be provided by Elsevier via a single contact or his/her deputy at each Site.
In addition discussion lists have been set up on JISCmail. These are called:-
chest-compendex
chest-Ei-Village
Anyone in the community may subscribe to these lists (whether or not from a participating site).
To join either list send an email to:
jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk with the one line:
join <list name> <first name> <last name>
e.g. join chest-compendex John Smith
Note that these lists are for discussion and whilst Elseveir may subscribe to the lists they are not a formal support route.
Technical contacts at licensed sites are advised to join these lists as they are used by Chest to communicate information relating to the Agreement.
19. Pricing
On receipt of a completed Licence, Sites will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed.
Engineering Village 2, Compendex
3 year Subscription
| Year 1 to cover the period to 7th December 2004 | £6500 | |
| Year 2 to cover the period to 7th December 2005 | £6825 | |
| Year 3 to cover the period to 7th December 2006 | £7165 |
Engineering Village 2, Compendex
Extension to 3 year Subscription
| Year 4 to cover the period to 7th December 2007 | £7292 | |
| Year 5 to cover the period to 7th December 2008 | £7292 |
Engineering Village 2, Compendex
5 year Subscription
| Year 1 to cover the period to 7th December 2004 | £6000 | |
| Year 2 to cover the period to 7th December 2005 | £6240 | |
| Year 3 to cover the period to 7th December 2006 | £6490 | |
| Year 4 to cover the period to 7th December 2007 | £6749 | |
| Year 5 to cover the period to 7th December 2008 | £7019 |
20. Payment Terms
For each subsequent year, Sites will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement (invoice date: 8th September 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007) to cover the period to 7th December 2008. There is no pro-rata charging for Sites which become licensed part-way through a year.
21. Access to Service and Downloading
Once the Licence has been signed and returned to Elsevier, they will notify ATHENS to request that Compendex should be added as a resource for that Institution. Licensed Sites and their authorised End Users may print or download full or partial results of the searches of, and data in Compendex subject to the terms and conditions in the Licence and any Web site restrictions (see note 8).
22. Registration procedures
The service will use Athens usernames and passwords (although IP address recognition is also available on request). Institutions which do not have an Athens administrator should refer to http://www.athensams.net/, and complete the registration form provided. Any queries should be addressed to athenshelp@eduserv.org.uk.
23. WWW Addresses
a) Agreement information and forms
b) Service Provider
www.elsevier.com
c) Supplier home page:
www.elsevier.com
24. How to Order
To sign up to the agreement sites are required to do the following:
1. Complete an Application Form for Access to Engineering Village 2 and Compendex and return to Eduserv Chest
2. An Elsevier Licence Agreement will be sent to you by Elsevier.