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
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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
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
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Revising COPPUL's Strategic Plan
The COPPUL Directors will be meeting in person on September 17-19 to revise COPPUL's strategic plan. All working groups have been invited to contribute to the revision.
This is a general invitation to all staff at member institutions to participate in the process. If you are not currently in one of the working groups and would like to suggest initiatives to include in the new plan, please send your comments to Sandy Slade at coppul@royalroads.ca by Friday, September 7.
The current COPPUL Strategic Plan can be viewed at http://www.coppul.ca/keydocs/strategy.html
This is a general invitation to all staff at member institutions to participate in the process. If you are not currently in one of the working groups and would like to suggest initiatives to include in the new plan, please send your comments to Sandy Slade at coppul@royalroads.ca by Friday, September 7.
The current COPPUL Strategic Plan can be viewed at http://www.coppul.ca/keydocs/strategy.html
ANTS News
Two new tutorials have been added to the ANimated Tutorial Sharing (ANTS) Project - http://www.brandonu.ca/library/coppul/ - which contains Open Source Tutorials for other libraries to access, modify and use.
The new tutorials are:
* Modern Language Association (EBSCOhost) Tutorial - added June 2007.
* CINAHL (EBSCOhost) Tutorial - added August 2007.
This brings the total number of tutorials in ANTS to 12.
In other news, ANTS has been gaining international attention. It has been bookmarked in several social bookmarking sites and mentioned in documents and presentations from Finland and Italy, and a blog from France. Two international volunteers have agreed to contribute tutorials to the ANTS project. They are Virginia Bender, West Virginia University, who volunteered to do two Medline tutorials, and Ann Tenglund, St. Bonaventure University, NY, who volunteered to do an English version of the tutorial for the Academic Search Premier database.
Carmen Kazakoff Lane, Brandon University, did a presentation on ANTS at the ACRL Conference held March 29 - April 1, 2007 in Baltimore. Her peer-reviewed contributed paper "Providing Innovative Services to 'Our Users' in the World of Web 2.0: The ANTS Initiative." was published in the Conference Proceedings.
For more information on the ANTS Project, contact Carmen at kazakoff@brandonu.ca
The new tutorials are:
* Modern Language Association (EBSCOhost) Tutorial - added June 2007.
* CINAHL (EBSCOhost) Tutorial - added August 2007.
This brings the total number of tutorials in ANTS to 12.
In other news, ANTS has been gaining international attention. It has been bookmarked in several social bookmarking sites and mentioned in documents and presentations from Finland and Italy, and a blog from France. Two international volunteers have agreed to contribute tutorials to the ANTS project. They are Virginia Bender, West Virginia University, who volunteered to do two Medline tutorials, and Ann Tenglund, St. Bonaventure University, NY, who volunteered to do an English version of the tutorial for the Academic Search Premier database.
Carmen Kazakoff Lane, Brandon University, did a presentation on ANTS at the ACRL Conference held March 29 - April 1, 2007 in Baltimore. Her peer-reviewed contributed paper "Providing Innovative Services to 'Our Users' in the World of Web 2.0: The ANTS Initiative." was published in the Conference Proceedings.
For more information on the ANTS Project, contact Carmen at kazakoff@brandonu.ca
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Books 24x7
COPPUL added Books 24x7 to its list of subscriptions on August 1st. The recent offer resulted in seven libraries upgrading their subscriptions to join the COPPUL agreement and five new subscribers.
Books 24x7 has extended its offer to the end of September due to the positive response from COPPUL members. Libraries can join the license until then and have their subscriptions prorated to either start on September 1st or October 1st, expiring July 31, 2008. The Books 24x7 trial account has been reactivated until August 31st.
For more information about this offer, contact Debbie Braun debbie.braun@accesscomm.ca
Books 24x7 has extended its offer to the end of September due to the positive response from COPPUL members. Libraries can join the license until then and have their subscriptions prorated to either start on September 1st or October 1st, expiring July 31, 2008. The Books 24x7 trial account has been reactivated until August 31st.
For more information about this offer, contact Debbie Braun debbie.braun@accesscomm.ca
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Books 24x7
COPPUL has issued an invitation to members to participate in an offer for Books 24x7. The offer is conditional upon (1) current subscribers upgrading their level of access and/or adding new collections; and (2) adding 50,000 FTE in new subscribers.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
Books 24x7 collections included in this offer are:
For more information about this offer, contact Debbie Braun debbie.braun@accesscomm.ca
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
Books 24x7 collections included in this offer are:
- ITPro
- EngineeringPro
- BusinessPro
- FinancePro
- ExecBlueprints
- ExecSummaries
- Well-BeingEssentials
- ProQuest’s relationship in this offer is to act as invoicing agent and first point of contact.
- Books 24x7 is amenable to multi-year agreements (2 or 3 year).
- Annual fees are fixed regardless of content added during the subscription term.
For more information about this offer, contact Debbie Braun debbie.braun@accesscomm.ca
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
New tutorial for America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts
There is a new tutorial for the America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts databases. It is avaiable from the ANimated Tutorial Sharing Project - http://www.brandonu.ca/library/coppul/ - which contains Open Source Tutorials for other libraries to access, modify and use as they wish. All tutorials are Flash tutorials and include Audio.
To access the new tutorial go to: https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/44659
From here you can either view the tutorial by selecting the SWF (Shockwave Flash) file, or download the source code for editing in ViewletBuilder by selecting the QVP File.
ANTS is an inter-institutional collaborative project created by COPPUL and it contains tutorials created by professional librarians. Most are for E-resources identified for tutorial development via our Wiki list - http://wiki.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/COPPUL_Tutorials. This list is dynamic and can be added to if you want to see a tutorial developed for another
e-resource not on it.
Contributions to the project are open to everyone, and all are welcome to use these tutorials.
To access the new tutorial go to: https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/44659
From here you can either view the tutorial by selecting the SWF (Shockwave Flash) file, or download the source code for editing in ViewletBuilder by selecting the QVP File.
ANTS is an inter-institutional collaborative project created by COPPUL and it contains tutorials created by professional librarians. Most are for E-resources identified for tutorial development via our Wiki list - http://wiki.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/COPPUL_Tutorials. This list is dynamic and can be added to if you want to see a tutorial developed for another
e-resource not on it.
Contributions to the project are open to everyone, and all are welcome to use these tutorials.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
COPPUL Outstanding Contribution Award
COPPUL is pleased to announce a new award to be given to an individual or team, working in a member library, that has made an outstanding contribution to the consortium.
The Outstanding Contribution Award may be given annually to recognize exemplary contributions to the mission of COPPUL.
Eligibility:
Individuals currently employed by COPPUL member institutions. Note: COPPUL Board members and COPPUL staff are not eligible.
Criteria:
Contributions should enhance service in multiple COPPUL libraries, i.e. have an impact within the region.
Procedures:
A call for nominations will be sent out before November 15 each year to all COPPUL listservs and posted on the COPPUL Blog.
Nominations can be made by staff of any COPPUL member library, and should be no more than two pages in length.
Nominations must include:
Nominations are to be sent to the COPPUL Office. Discussion of the award will be led by the Director(s) of the institution(s) employing the nominee(s) at the March meeting. A decision will be made by majority vote of the members present at that meeting. All nominations will remain confidential to the COPPUL Directors and staff.
The award will consist of a plaque and a gift certificate for $200.
The Outstanding Contribution Award may be given annually to recognize exemplary contributions to the mission of COPPUL.
Eligibility:
Individuals currently employed by COPPUL member institutions. Note: COPPUL Board members and COPPUL staff are not eligible.
Criteria:
Contributions should enhance service in multiple COPPUL libraries, i.e. have an impact within the region.
Procedures:
A call for nominations will be sent out before November 15 each year to all COPPUL listservs and posted on the COPPUL Blog.
Nominations can be made by staff of any COPPUL member library, and should be no more than two pages in length.
Nominations must include:
- Name of individual being nominated, and home institution
- Description and impact of the exemplary contribution
- Contribution to the COPPUL mission
- Other supporting/relevant documentation
- Name of nominator and home institution
- One letter of support (the ‘seconder’)
Nominations are to be sent to the COPPUL Office. Discussion of the award will be led by the Director(s) of the institution(s) employing the nominee(s) at the March meeting. A decision will be made by majority vote of the members present at that meeting. All nominations will remain confidential to the COPPUL Directors and staff.
The award will consist of a plaque and a gift certificate for $200.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Canadian Electronic Library / ebrary meeting at CLA Conference
From Gary Gibson, Gibson Library Connections:
I am writing today to invite you to join us for our “third annual ebrary / CEL users group meeting” to be held in conjunction with the CLA Conference in St. John’s this month.
This is an annual event where we bring both current customers and other interested parties together to discuss issues of common interest concerning e-books in general and ebrary and Canadian Electronic Library in particular.
This is not a sales presentation or product demonstration but rather a roundtable discussion covering topics relevant to you and your organization that will help both ebrary and Gibson Library Connections better serve the Canadian market and adapt to the ever changing landscape.
Some of the topics we will cover include:
Subscription or perpetual access?
Key licensing issues
Desired interface enhancements
New or revised product offerings
Consortia opportunities
Your participation at this gathering will help shape the future of CEL & ebrary services in Canada and your feedback is extremely valuable.
When: Thursday, May 24th, 7:30 am
(We’ll wrap up by 8:45 to get you to your first conference session)
Where: Delta Hotel, Governor Gower Room
120 New Gower Street, St. John’s, NL
What: Roundtable Meeting with continental breakfast
Hosts: Gary & Bob Gibson, Gibson Library Connections
Bryan Keane, ebrary Regional Sales Manager
Please RSVP by May 11th.
Due to high demand at the Conference hotel we are faced with limited space availability so we ask that if you are unable to attend that you contact us about designating an alternate contact to represent your organization but that otherwise you treat this as a personal invitation.
Thanks & Regards, Gary
I am writing today to invite you to join us for our “third annual ebrary / CEL users group meeting” to be held in conjunction with the CLA Conference in St. John’s this month.
This is an annual event where we bring both current customers and other interested parties together to discuss issues of common interest concerning e-books in general and ebrary and Canadian Electronic Library in particular.
This is not a sales presentation or product demonstration but rather a roundtable discussion covering topics relevant to you and your organization that will help both ebrary and Gibson Library Connections better serve the Canadian market and adapt to the ever changing landscape.
Some of the topics we will cover include:
Subscription or perpetual access?
Key licensing issues
Desired interface enhancements
New or revised product offerings
Consortia opportunities
Your participation at this gathering will help shape the future of CEL & ebrary services in Canada and your feedback is extremely valuable.
When: Thursday, May 24th, 7:30 am
(We’ll wrap up by 8:45 to get you to your first conference session)
Where: Delta Hotel, Governor Gower Room
120 New Gower Street, St. John’s, NL
What: Roundtable Meeting with continental breakfast
Hosts: Gary & Bob Gibson, Gibson Library Connections
Bryan Keane, ebrary Regional Sales Manager
Please RSVP by May 11th.
Due to high demand at the Conference hotel we are faced with limited space availability so we ask that if you are unable to attend that you contact us about designating an alternate contact to represent your organization but that otherwise you treat this as a personal invitation.
Thanks & Regards, Gary
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Withdrawn Print Journals
Call for expressions of interest in withdrawn print journal titles University of Saskatchewan Library.
The University of Saskatchewan Library has recently withdrawn a number of print journal titles which are duplicated in electronic form via the JSTOR electronic journal subscriptions. These titles were removed to meet the physical requirements of the newly created University Learning Centre and the Library Transformation Project. The Library is now in the process of disposing of these withdrawn print volumes through calls for expressions of interest. First priority will be given to interested U of S departments and colleges and then Saskatchewan and other Canadian libraries.
If you are interested in considering these titles for your library's collection please review the policies and procedures document which outlines the responsibilities of the requestor and the review process for expressions of interest. This document, along with a list of available titles, including holdings information and linear cm measurements, can be found on the University of Saskatchewan's website at: https://library.usask.ca/ULC-LTP. Expressions of interest may be submitted via email to Ken Ladd, Associate Dean (ken.ladd@usask.ca) and must be received by May 15, 2007.
For more information, or if you have any questions about the dispersal process or the list of titles please contact Carol Shepstone, Head Access Services (carol.shepstone@usask.ca) or Ken Ladd, Associate Dean (ken.ladd@usask.ca).
The University of Saskatchewan Library has recently withdrawn a number of print journal titles which are duplicated in electronic form via the JSTOR electronic journal subscriptions. These titles were removed to meet the physical requirements of the newly created University Learning Centre and the Library Transformation Project. The Library is now in the process of disposing of these withdrawn print volumes through calls for expressions of interest. First priority will be given to interested U of S departments and colleges and then Saskatchewan and other Canadian libraries.
If you are interested in considering these titles for your library's collection please review the policies and procedures document which outlines the responsibilities of the requestor and the review process for expressions of interest. This document, along with a list of available titles, including holdings information and linear cm measurements, can be found on the University of Saskatchewan's website at: https://library.usask.ca/ULC-LTP. Expressions of interest may be submitted via email to Ken Ladd, Associate Dean (ken.ladd@usask.ca) and must be received by May 15, 2007.
For more information, or if you have any questions about the dispersal process or the list of titles please contact Carol Shepstone, Head Access Services (carol.shepstone@usask.ca) or Ken Ladd, Associate Dean (ken.ladd@usask.ca).
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