Illinois Digital Academic Library - Full Text Journal Vendor Sele cted

[Sloan, Bernie]

FYI.....an update on the Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL)
project.....

Bernie Sloan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dorst, Tom [mailto:tdorst at uillinois.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 12:32 PM
To: 'announce at listserv.ilcso.uiuc.edu'
Subject: Illinois Digital Academic Library - Full Text Journal Vendor
Sele cted


The Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL), administered by the University
of Illinois' Office for Planning and Budgeting, is pleased to announce that
EBSCO Publishing, Inc. has been selected to provide access to over 1,700
full text digital journals for more than 780,000 students, faculty and staff
affiliated with 150 Illinois institutions of higher education. Pending final
approval of the recommendation to award a contract to EBSCO by the Board of
Trustees of the University of Illinois (as fiscal and contractual authority
for IDAL) at its January meeting, access to the EBSCO products will be
available statewide at the end of January 2000. The products included in
this first IDAL offering include:

Academic Search Elite - an academic periodicals database that covers a broad
range of disciplines including general reference, social sciences,
humanities, general sciences, education, library and information science,
and multi-cultural studies. The database indexes and abstracts over 2,800
titles with coverage as early as 1984. It includes full text coverage of
over 1,200 titles (including charts and graphs) with coverage as early as
1990

Business Source Elite - a business periodicals database covering accounting,
banking, economics, finance, international business, regional business,
sales and marketing. The database covers over 900 full text titles (some of
which duplicate coverage in Academic Search Elite). The database includes
Wall Street Words, a financial dictionary, that is linked directly to words
within citations and full text.

Health Source Plus - a consumer health database covering general health,
nutrition, professional healthcare, nursing, sports medicine, and patient
care. It includes over 250 full text tittles  (some of which duplicate
coverage in Academic Search Elite). The database also includes 1,200
pamphlets in full text, USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Vol. II Advice for the Lay
Patient, over 20 full text monographs published by the People's medical
Society, and 7,000 Clinical Reference System reports.

Newspaper Source - a database that features indexing and abstracting for The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and
USA Today from 1995. Selected full text is available from 143 U.S. and
international newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The News-Gazette
(Champaign-Urbana), Belleville News Democrat, and Peoria Journal Star.

EBSCO Publishing is part of EBSCO Information Services, a fully integrated,
worldwide serials access and delivery service, comprising subscription
management, reference database development and production, and online
multi-database access.

The goal of the Illinois Digital Academic Library (IDAL) initiative is to
provide a high quality collection of full text and image digitized resources
that supports instruction, study and research by students, faculty, and
staff in all eligible Illinois institutions of higher education.

Please direct questions and comments to Tom Dorst, IDAL Project Director
(tdorst at uillinois.edu or 217/206-7856).

___________________________________________
Thomas J. Dorst
Illinois Digital Academic Library
University of Illinois Office of Planning and Budgeting
Phone: 217/206-7856
Fax: 217/206-7857
e-mail: tdorst at uillinois.edu
Mailing Address: 
                                Library 140
                                University of Illinois at Springfield
                                P.O. Box 19243
                                Springfield, IL 62794-9243


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