[WEB4LIB] E-resources marketed direct-to-consumer?

[Morin, Christopher]

What about Northern Light and their Special Collections?

Christopher C. Morin
Nashville State Technical Institute
(615)353-3561
All responses reflect the opinion of
the author, not the institution.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sloan, Bernie [SMTP:bernies at uillinois.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 16, 2000 2:53 PM
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> Subject:	[WEB4LIB] E-resources marketed direct-to-consumer?
> 
> 
> I am looking for examples of Web-based full text e-resources that are
> being
> marketed directly to the "consumer". (The term "consumer" can be applied
> at
> a number of different levels, e.g., student, faculty member, college or
> university adiminstrator.......in other words marketed to someone besides
> the library).
> 
> Following are a few examples to give you an idea of what I'm looking for.
> I'd appreciate hearing about other such services:
> 
> ProQuest Academic Edition -- For $19.95 per semester, a student can get
> unlimited access to a collection of full text ProQuest resources. See the
> following for more info:
> 
> http://ae.proquest.com/aegate/about/about.html
> 
> Campus Pipeline -- Campus Pipeline markets what they call "the first Web
> platform for higher education. This platform revolutionizes the way higher
> education builds relationships with its students, faculty, staff and
> alumni." Campus Pipeline has a "Research Center" function, but the
> information about this function is rather sketchy. Campus Pipeline appears
> to be marketed to institutional administrators, and then faculty. See the
> following for a reference to the "Research Center" function:
> 
> http://www.campuspipeline.com/whatwedo/daylife/daylife4.html
> 
> WebCT "WebCourselets" -- These resources seem to offer mostly textbooks,
> and
> are marketed more towards institutional administrators, and then faculty.
> They are integrated into an online learning package (WebCT). For examples
> of
> content, see:
> 
> http://about.webct.com/library/content_gallery_index.html
> 
> Questia -- Questia is a very ambitous undertaking. The following statement
> is taken from their Web site: "The Questia service enables students to
> search, access and interact with thousands of important books and journals
> from anywhere: from home, from the computer lab or anywhere else they
> connect to the Internet. The Questia service will be live in early 2001
> with
> at least 50,000 of the most valued volumes in the liberal arts from the
> 20th
> and 21st centuries (not including textbooks)." Additionally Questia aims
> to
> have 250,000 volumes digitized within three years. As their Web site notes
> "that's greater than the number of volumes in over 80 percent of all
> academic libraries in the United States." It will be marketed directly to
> students. For more on Questia see:
> 
> http://www.questia.com/
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Bernie Sloan
> Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
> University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
> 338 Henry Administration Building
> 506 S. Wright Street
> Urbana, IL  61801
> Phone:  (217) 333-4895
> Fax:      (217) 333-6355
> E-mail:  bernies at uillinois.edu