RefWorks Alumni Program

COPPUL has issued an invitation to members to participate in an offer to add the Alumni program to their existing RefWorks subscriptions at a discounted price.

The program is intended for institutions that wish to provide continued access to RefWorks for their alumni.

If your institution is able to monitor usage by alumni users (via proxy server), you will be asked to provide usage reports to RefWorks on a periodic basis. If not, RefWorks will enable your graduating students to convert their accounts to "Alumni" status, and RefWorks will track usage and provide you with an online report within Administrative Central.

An annual license fee, with a maximum number of alumni use applies. Pricing is tiered and is based on the size of your institution.

For more information on this offer, contact Sandy Slade coppul@royalroads.ca

ALPSP Learned Journals Collection

COPPUL has sent out an invitation to members to participate in an offer from Swets for the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Learned Journals Collection (ALJC).

The ALJC is a package of e-journals that offers content from 53 publishers. There will be a total of 728 titles in the full 2008 collection. In addition, there are nine subject-specific sub-collections available:

Archaeology & History
Law
Life Sciences
Linguistics & Arts
Medicine
Religion & Philosophy
Science
Social Sciences
Technology

The ALJC offers an umbrella license with a straightforward pricing model. End-users are given access to the ALJC through SwetsWise Online Content, Swets' e-journal gateway.

The pricing model of the ALJC is composed of two (2) elements:

1. E-content fee: calculated based on the value of the institution's existing holdings maintained in the two (2) years prior to the ALJC license.
2. E-Access fee: calculated as a percentage of the list price included in a given package.

RESPONSE DEADLINE: October 15, 2007.

For more information on this offer, contact Sandy Slade coppul@royalroads.ca