Licence Information

• 1. Agreement Details
  • 1.1 Product Name
  • 1.2 Product Owner
  • 1.3 Product Supplier
  • 1.4 Service Provider
  • 1.5 Agreement & Site Commitment Periods
• 2. Eligible Institutions
• 3. Products Covered
• 4. Product Descriptions
• 5. Licence Type
• 6. Personal Licences
• 7. Post Termination of Agreement Period
• 8. Alterations/Additions to Databases and New Functionality
• 9. Users Rights
• 10. Usage Rights

Support

• 11. Background Detail/Community Evaluation
• 12. Institution Evaluation
• 13. Product Documentation
• 14. Right to Copy Documentation
• 15. Training and Training Materials
• 16. Document Delivery
• 17. Initial Consultancy/Support
• 18. Website Addresses

Service

• 19. Method of Access
• 20. System Requirements
• 21. Functionality
• 22. Access Management Systems
• 23. Registration Procedures

Signing Up

• 24. Pricing
• 25. Payment Terms
• 26. How to Order

Licence Information

1. Agreement Details

This Overview represents the detail of the formal Agreement which exists between Eduserv and Nielsen.  The following sections are written to enable Institutions to make a decision as to whether or not the product is appropriate for their needs.

1.1 Product Name

BookData Online UK & Ireland
BookData Online International

1.2 Product Owner

Nielsen Book Services Ltd
3rd Floor, Midas House
62 Goldsworth Road
Woking
Surrey
GU21 6LQ

1.3 Product Supplier

Nielsen Book Services Ltd

1.4 Service Provider

Nielsen Book Services Ltd

1.5 Agreement & Site Commitment Periods

This agreement commences on 1 August 2009 and terminates on 31 July 2012.
Institutions may participate at any time during the period and will be bound until the end of the Agreement on 31 July 2012.

2. Eligible Institutions

This Agreement is available to Higher and Further Education Institutions in the UK and to Universities, Institutes of Technology, Colleges of Education, Colleges of Further Education, National Institutes in the Republic of Ireland, Research Councils, Associates, SURF sites and NHS Trusts.

3. Products Covered

BookData Online UK & Ireland
BookData Online International

4. Product Description

BookData Online is an online bibliographic search tool. BookData Online is a source of timely, accurate and comprehensive information for books and other published media.

Records contain:
• Price and availability
• Subject classifications: Library of Congress, Dewey Codes, Readership Levels & BIC Subject Classifications
• Descriptions
• Tables of contents (where applicable)
• Wholesaler stock identified: UK, US (Baker & Taylor and Ingram)
• Publisher and distributor details
• Jacket/cover images
• Out-of-print titles

Special Features:
• Search using Quick Find, Advanced Search, Supplier Search and Bulk Search
• Create and store lists which can then be emailed, downloaded or printed in various formats
• Personalise your account, search forms and how you view your results
• Download UKMARC and MARC21 records
• Sort your search results by BookScan chart position
• Set up New title alerts for your popular search criteria
• Use Search History to retrace your last 50 searches

There is a choice of UK & Ireland or international coverage.

UK & Ireland: Over 5 million English language titles published or distributed in the UK, Ireland and Europe.

International: Over 7.5 million English language titles published or distributed in the UK, Ireland, Europe, US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as well as data collected from a further 70 countries.

5. Licence Type

Site licence with General Licence Conditions and Special Licence Conditions.  Please read all licence conditions before joining the Nielsen Chest Agreement.

6. Personal Licences

Personal Licences are not applicable to this Agreement.

7. Post Termination of Agreement Period

Material downloaded under the Agreement before its expiry may continue to be used under the same licence conditions as pertain while the Agreement exists. Once the Agreement has terminated then no further access to the service and to future publications will be possible unless the Agreement is renewed or extended. If the Agreement is renewed or extended then new conditions will apply. If the Agreement is not renewed then renewal is a matter between Institutions and Nielsen.

8. Alterations/Additions to Databases and New Functionality

All additions and new facilities will be incorporated.

9. Users Rights

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 (Revised edition effective from 1st January 2008)

Other Permitted Users:
means the following categories of User that 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;
• 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, but only via a computer or terminal within the Licesed Institution's premises.

10. Usage Rights

Not Applicable

Support 

11. Background Detail/Community Evaluation

Eduserv first had an agreement for LibWeb, as the product was then known, in 2001.  Since then Eduserv has continued to renew the Chest Agreement as the product and supplier changed.  BookData Online is now owned and supplied by Nielsen.  The current Chest Agreement was obtained after consultation with the community, including a survey.

Free thirty day trials are available to sites who wish to evaluate the product before joining the Chest Agreement.

12. Institution Evaluation

For a 30 day free trial of this service please contact Nielsen BookData on 01483 712 200 or by email to libraries.book@nielsen.com. Please copy Eduserv Help (help@eduserv.org.uk) in on any requests for a trial.

13. Product Documentation

Copies of a Product Users Guide are available from Nielsen BookData on request from Licensed Sites.

14. Right to Copy Documentation

Copying of Licensed Materials is permitted for reasonable reference use.

15. Training and Training Materials

The provision of training is included in this Chest Agreement, upon request from a Licensed Institution and at a mutually agreed date and time.  Training material which consists of a Product Users Guide is also freely available from Nielsen on request from Licensed Institutions.  Please contact Nielsen BookData on 01483 712 200 or by email to libraries.book@nielsen.com.  Please copy Eduserv Help (help@eduserv.org.uk) in on any requests for training.

16. Document Delivery

Document delivery is available via Nielsen.

17. Initial Consultancy/Support

Support will be provided by Nielsen via a single contact or a deputy at the institution. Nielsen support can be contacted at:

• email: help.book@nielsen.com
• phone: 0870 777 8713
• fax: 0870 777 8711

18. Website Addresses

Supplier: www.nielsenbookdata.co.uk

Service

19. Method of Access

Internet

20. System Requirements

Online Service:

• Netscape 4.0 (or higher)
• Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher)
• Firefox 2.0 (or higher)
• Safari 3.1.1 (or higher, PC version)

21. Updates

New content is added throughout the Agreement.

22. Functionality

COUNTER Compliance
BookData Online usage statistics are currently available on request in PDF format for any given time period.  These clearly show the total number of logins, maximum concurrent users reached, searches run and the number of records printed, saved, emailed, exported or downloaded in MARC format.  However, the system does not currently produce formal COUNTER compliant statistics.  Nielsen Book will provide an update on this situation following an internal review.

OpenURL standards
BookData Online is a stand alone bibliographic search and selection tool which accesses Nielsen’s own book information database – as such OpenURL Standards are not directly applicable.  However, data can be exported from the system in many formats (for example, a simple list of ISBNs), which can then be imported into other systems.

Federated Searching
Nielsen does not support Bath Profile Z39.50 rules and procedures for communicating between two computer systems for searching and retrieving information from databases specification used.

W3C Guidelines
Nielsen follows W3C guidelines. W3C is the governing authority on Web development standards and practices. The W3C defines three accessibility levels in its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) issue 1.0. In increasing levels of accessibility, these are: A, AA, and AAA. Nielsen BookData Online web pages are optimised for the highest standard of accessibility.  All pages have been validated by an external agency and were found to be WAI-AAA compliant.

Metadata Standards
Data can be exported from BookData Online in the following standard formats – RTF, PDF, Tagged ASCII and a variety of delimited formats. 

MARC Records
BookData Online can export book information as MARC records (MARC21 Unicode, MARC21 Non-Unicode or UKMARC).

Personalisation features
Each institution’s BookData Online subscription can support multiple user profiles (usage limits are on concurrent use) and each user’s profile can be personalised according to their needs.  Search forms can be set and stored.  The default results display format, sort order and print options can all be set.  Searches can be saved for later use and new title alert emails can be sent out against those searches to the address saved in personal preferences.  Lists of results can be printed, saved, exported and emailed in all the formats listed previously.  The format of exported spreadsheets is also fully customisable by each user.

23. Access Management System

• IP address range
• Username / Password (required method of access for Personalisation Features)

Signing Up

24. Pricing

The annual fee remains the same (no year-on-year price increases) for sites joining the Chest Agreement for Nielsen anytime between 1 August 2009 and 31 July 2010.  The annual fee will not increase over the Agreement period.  Monthly prorata pricing is available for sites joining the Chest Agreement partway through a year.

Pricing is divided into categories for the number of users required (one user, up to five users, up to ten users, unlimited site licence).  Pricing is then again divided based on the size of the institution.  For all Higher Education institutions, size is based on JISC Banding.  All Further Education and Other institutions fall into the same "FE and Others" category and therefore do not need to look at JISC Banding.

Higher Education:

• Large: JISC Bands A to D
• Medium: JISC Bands E to F
• Small: JISC Bands G to J
• Ireland: Higher Education Institutions and Institutes of Technology in Ireland should check their banding category here.

Further Education and Others, includes:

• Further Education Institutions and Specialist Colleges in the United Kingdom listed in the JISC Collections Institution Banding System;
• Colleges of Education, Colleges of Further Education and National Institutes in the Republic of Ireland;
• Associated Institutions, National Health Service Trusts and SURFdiensten Institutions

Product Pricing through the Chest Agreement:

Nielsen BookData Online – United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Edition including the MARC Record Download Service

Annual Fees for Sites joining the Chest Agreement between 1 August 2009 and 31 July 2010

The information you need to calculate your fee is given on the Order Information Sheet. It does not need to be returned with the licence.

25. Payment Terms

This Agreement is of 3 years duration, commencing 1 August 2009 and terminating 31 July 2012. Institutions may sign to the Agreement at any time during that period, but having signed will be committed until the end of it. There is monthly prorata charging for Institutions which become licensed partway through a licence year.

On receipt of a completed Licence, Institutions will be invoiced 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 1 May.

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.

26. How to Order

One original signed copy of the Schedule 4 (Licence) is required:

Licence (Schedule 4)  

When completed the original form, along with an Institution Purchase Order for the full fee plus VAT made payable to "Eduserv", should be posted to:

Eduserv
Royal Mead
Railway Place
Bath
BA1 1SR 
 

If you have any queries, then please email us at Eduserv Help: help@eduserv.org.uk

Last updated 21 August 2009