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 ProQuest. 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

Proquest Subject Collection Databases

1.2 Product Owner

ProQuest
The Quorum,
Barnwell Road,
Cambridge,
CB5 8SW. UK

1.3 Product Supplier

ProQuest
The Quorum,
Barnwell Road,
Cambridge,
CB5 8SW. UK

1.4 Service Provider

ProQuest
The Quorum,
Barnwell Road,
Cambridge,
CB5 8SW. UK

1.5 Agreement & Site Commitment Periods

This Agreement commences 1 September 2008 and terminates 30 August 2011 Institutions may participate at any time during the period.

2. Eligible Institutions

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

3. Products Covered

A&I ProQuest Subject Collections covering
Arts & Humanities
Social Sciences
Technology
Natural Sciences

4. Product Description

5. Licence Type

Site licence with normal Eduserv Chest terms and conditions.

Eduserv Chest General Licence Conditions for Datasets (Revised Edition effective from 1 January 2008).

6. Personal Licences

Personal Licences are not available under this Agreement.

7. Post Termination of Agreement Period

Access is granted only during the term of the subscription. No archival access is granted after termination or at end of subscription.

Material downloaded during the Agreement can continue to be used under the same licence conditions as pertain while the Agrement exists.

8. Alterations/Additions to Databases and New Functionality

The databases are updated at least monthly with some being updated weekly.

Database content goes back to 1952 for certain files. Additions and enhancements to the content are included under this agreement at no additional cost. Improvements to the interface may be made from time to time throughout the agreement and any additional functionality will be included without further charge.

9. Users Rights

Authorised Users

 "Authorised Users" 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 termianl on the Licensee's Secure Network or offsite via a Seure 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 catergories 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 
• visiting academics, researchers and research supervisers from other educational or research establishment; 
• 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

Alumni:

For the purposes of this Agreement "Alumni" means former staff and students of an Institution. This Agreement does not permits such use but will be considered at additional charge.

Retired Members of Staff:

For the purposes of this Agreement "Retired Members of Staff" means retired members of staff of a Licensed Institution. This Agreement does not permits such use but will be considered at additional charge.

Walk-In Users:

Walk-In Users 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 termianl within the Licensed User's premises

The Licence for ProQuest Subject Collections permits such use.

10. Usage Rights

Inter-Library Loan (ILL)
Interlibrary Loan of Materials retrieved from the Products is allowed provided that the loan is not done in a manner or magnitude that would replace the recipient library's own subscription to either the Products or the purchase of the underlying Work (e.g., newspaper, magazine or book)

Incorporation of parts of the Licensed Work
The licence for ProQuest Subject Collections permits incorporation of parts of the Licensed Work for use by Authorised users in printed an delectronic course packs, study packs, resource lists and in any other material to be used in the courese of instruction and /or in virtual and managed environments hosted on a Secure Network. Allow incorporation in printed or electronic form in assignments and portfolios, theses and in dissertations including reproductions of same for personal use an library deposit.
Each item shall carry appropriate acknowledgement of the source, listing title and copyright owner.

Electronic Repositories
The licence for ProQuest Subject Collections permits the Licensee to deposit the learning and teaching objects as created above in electronic repositories operated by the Licensee on a Secure Network and in the JORUM Repository.
The access and use of such learning and teaching objects shall be governed by the terms and conditions of the applicable repository.

Support 

11. Background Detail/Community Evaluation

This is a renewal of an agreement that has been in place since 2005.

12. Institution Evaluation

For a 30 day free trial of this service please contact - James Barratt customerservice@proquest.co.uk.

13. Product Documentation

Comprehensive help files are included in the online service.

14. Right to Copy Documentation

Copying of hardcopy and electronic documentation is permitted.

15. Training and Training Materials

Training is included in the subscription. Train the Trainer sessions can be carried out on site or over the web.

16. Document Delivery

Document delivery is available via customerservice@proquest.co.uk

17. Initial Consultancy/Support

Support will be provided by ProQuest via a single contact or his/her deputy at each Institution. ProQuest support can be contacted at: 

• email: customerservice@proquest.co.uk 
• phone: 01223 271400
• fax: 01223 215514

18. Website Addresses

Supplier: http://www.csa.com/

Service

19. Method of Access

World Wide Web over JANET/Internet

20. System Requirements

Minimum Requirements/Browser Recommendations:

• Online Service: 
• Netscape 4.0 (or higher) 
• Internet Explorer 4.0 (or higher) 
• You must have "cookies" enabled on your browser to access Subject Collections. 
• To see the page image version of full text documents, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your workstation and linked to your browser.

21. Updates

New content is added weekly.

22. Functionality

Bath Profile Z39.50
ProQuest Subject Collections is compliant with Bath Profile Z39.50 rules and procedures for communicating between two computer systems for searching and retrieving information from databases specification used.
Counter Compliance
ProQuest Subject Collections is COUNTER compliant.
OpenURL
ProQuest Subject Collections complies with OpenURL standard to format search requests and supply results so that the appropriate copy is returned to the user, usually in the form of a web page.
W3C Standards
ProQuest Subject Collections complies with W3C standards on interoperability.
Access Management
ProQuest Subject Collections uses Athens, OpenAthens & Shibboleth.
Metadata
ProQuest Subject Collections uses controlled vocabulary.
Marc Records
Marc Records are not available for ProQuest Subject Collections.
Federated Searching
ProQuest Subject Collections uses Federated Search Engines and link resolvers therby offering users an alternative route to information resources.
Citations
ProQuest Subject Collections allows the use to export directly to RefWorks, ProCite, EndNote or Reference Manager.
Alerts
Journal alerts and search alerts delivered via email or RSS feed are available for new content added to ProQuest Subject Collections.
Personalisation
Personalisation features are available through the My Research area ProQuest Subject Collections on the Illumina platform.

23. Access Management System

The following access management systems are supported:

Athens

Shibboleth

IP domain

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24. Pricing

 The above prices exclude VAT

Notes:

Large = A & B
Medium = C & D
Small = E to J
UK Size bands are according to the list for HE Institutions published by JISC at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=coll_allbanding  

Institutions in the Republic of Ireland:
Large: Trinity College Dublin; University College Cork; University College Dublin
Medium: Dublin City University; National University of Ireland, Galway; University of Limerick
Small: All other third level colleges

Monthly pro-rata charging is available for sites joining part way through an agreement year.

Further Discounts
Discounts are available if you subscribe to more than one collection:
2 collections - 5% discount
3 collections - 10% discount
4 collections - 20% discount

25. Payment Terms

This Agreement is of 3 years duration, commencing 1 September 2008 and terminating 31 August 2011. Institutions may sign to the Agreement at any time during that period, but having signed will be commited till the end of it.

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 June 2009 and 1 June 2010. 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.

26. How to Order

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

Licence (Schedule 4)

When completed the form should be returned along with an Institution Purchase Order for the full amount due plus VAT, made out to 'Eduserv'.

By post to:
Eduserv
Royal Mead
Railway Place
Bath
BA1 1SR

By fax: 01225 474301

Or by email: help@eduserv.org.uk

If you have any queries, please email help@eduserv.org.uk.

Last updated 21 August 2009