Southeastern News Online May, 2004 Vol. 2  No. 1

SENYLRC’s Consortium Electronic Resources: OVERVIEW of Sources

Southeastern continues to work with library organizations in New York State in order to provide most affordable access to commercial databases for libraries in the region. SENYLRC collaborates with other library organizations, like WALDO, with other 3Rs councils and Nylink to aggregate and leverage the statewide licensing of these databases that result in volume discounts for your libraries. The list below is an overview of the organizations that Southeastern works with and the resources that are available from each project. Renewal forms and information for new subscribers are being developed and will be sent to all libraries in the region within the next few weeks.

Southeastern RBDB Database Subsidy
The Southeastern New York Library Resources Council offers libraries in the region the option to subscribe to electronic resources with a minimum cost share from the library. The Electronic Resources Advisory Committee (ERAC), chaired by Mary Ann Van Benschoten, Orange County Community College, recommended three resources to offer libraries at considerably reduced costs through this regional automation subsidy initiative, with the use of Regional Automation Funds (RBDB).

Every attempt was made to keep the cost share for each library at a minimum amount. For each electronic resource listed below, the regional automation subsidy pays part of the cost for the database, and the library pays for the remainder.

Databases Subsidized by RBDB

ABC-CLIO History Databases: America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts (Academic Libraries only): These two abstract and index resources are offered as one package. New features of this package include links from the citations to content purchases separately like Project Muse or JSTOR. The cost for this package varies by college. Each library is saving several thousand dollars through this consortia license and subsidy. The subscription year is August 1st, 2004 to July 31st, 2005.

FirstSearch Base Package with Wilson Full Text: This package includes twelve databases, the two most popular are WorldCat, the online union catalog and H.W. Wilson Select Plus with Full Text, which contains over 1600 full text titles. Citations in other FirstSearch databases, like Medline or ERIC link to the full text content in Wilson Select Plus. The cost for the FirstSearch Package is $350 for public, school, hospital and special libraries; $525 for academic libraries. The subscription year is July 1st, 2004 to June 30th, 2005. (Without the SENYLRC license, the individual institution list price to add Wilson SelectPlus to the FirstSearch Base Package is based upon FTE or population served. For example, unlimited use subscription prices begin at $2,850 for a 4-year college with 500 FTE and at $6,050 for community colleges and public libraries. Unlimited use, individual institution subscription prices for Wilson SelectPlus only, without the Base Package, begin at $6,400. )

Health & Wellness Resource Center with the Alternative Health Module: This resource center for consumer health from Thomson Gale includes additional content beyond what NOVEL provides in the Health Reference Academic resource. The Health & Wellness Resource Center includes additional general reference sources and alternative health magazines and journals. The cost for this online resource center is $50.00 per library. The full cost to the region is $25,000 with the subsidy paying $15,519 and the balance by the participating libraries. Without the leverage of the state-purchased NOVEL databases, the cost to the region for this resource would have been over $50,000. The subscription year is July 1st, 2004 to June 30th, 2005.

WALDO
Southeastern members have access to a multitude of electronic resources available from WALDO, the Westchester Academic Library Director's Organization, from many vendors like CQ Press, ProQuest, Ebsco, Serials Solutions, Facts on File – just to name a few! For a complete list of vendors and resources, visit this web page: http://www.senylrc.org/services/electronicresources. Select your library type, then WALDO.
Through the "limited membership" agreement Southeastern has with WALDO, academic and public libraries in the region are able to subscribe to any of these resources. The subscription year is August 1st to the following July 31st.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Southeastern works with Encyclopedia Britannica to offer their entire suite of online resources to all library types. These databases are being offered under the terms and conditions of the New York State contract by the New York State Office of General Services (OGS). The subscription year for Britannica is July 1st to the following June 30th. The prices for these resources is based upon a weighted user and a per weighted user cost, with a $250 minimum per database. More detailed information and prices will be posted to the SENYLRC web page and sent to libraries.

2004 Britannica Online: Integrated searching of 123,000 articles as well as illustrations, maps, graphics and multimedia. The cost for Britannica Online is $.35 per weighted user.

2004 Britannica Online School Edition: Also includes study guides, activities, and exercises for students and teachers. Special materials for grades K-12. The cost for Britannica Online is $.39 per weighted user.

Annals of American History Online: Online Access to over 2,000 original sourced documents in U.S. History.

World Data Analyst Online: A flexible and in-depth comparison of the nations of the world.

Webster's Third New Intl. Dictionary: The largest, most comprehensive American Dictionary.

Enciclopedia Universal en Español: More content than any other online Spanish language encyclopedia.

NEW: Britannica’s Original Sources (academic libraries only). A comprehensive compilation of more than 270,000 primary source documents and 5,500 complete books, as well as pictures and authentic images, all searchable, by subject, author, date, theme, etc with a powerful and intuitive search engine.

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