Database Questions
Q. What databases will be available
to us starting July 1, 2003?
A. Please go to
http://www.texshare.edu/programs/academicdb/databases2004.html
Q. Will we still get Searchasaurus
from Ebsco?
A. Yes, Searchasaurus is an interface only, not a database.
You will still have this interface to use on EBSCOhost.
Q. Has TDNet become a TexSelect
item?
A. No, my fault here. My list in the email came from a table
I created. TDNet was at the bottom of the table nicely set
off by grid marks all by itself, distinguishing itself as
a librarian's utility tool. When stripped from the table and
placed in an email, TDNet looks as if it is now a TexSelect
option. Wrong, it is still a TexShare Core option, a utility
tool for all to use.
Q. Your email said "Starting
July 1st, 2003, the following core TexShare Databases
will continue to be available to libraries at no charge".
I thought we had to start paying for the databases, now I
am all confused. Can you explain please?
A. All TexShare Core databases will be free for TexShare
members to use during the period July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2004.
We are instituting fees for TexShare Members in the Fall of
2003 to collect revenue to help pay for database subscriptions.
This was a directive given to the TSLAC by the Legislative
Budget Board. This fee will be used to pay for the database
subscription period commencing July 1, 2004 and ending June
30, 2005. The money you will pay in the fall of 2003 does
not pay for the databases you currently have access to or
will have access to starting on July 1, 2003; the money collected
in the fall will be used to pay for database subscriptions
that will begin in July 2004. Questions about the collection
of fees may be directed to the TexShare Coordinator. Her contact
information is: Ann Mason,TexShare Coordinator,Texas State
Library & Archives Commission,512-463-0188,amason@tsl.state.tx.us
Q. Do we still have access to Clinical
Pharmacology?
A. Clinical Pharmacology is alive and well in both the Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition and Health Source: Consumer
Edition. These databases are being renewed July 1, 2003. You
will still have access to Clinical Pharmacology.
Q. How do I contact *** (fill in the vendor
of your choice) I would like to subscribe to **** (fill in
the TexSelect database)
A. Read on TexShare members!
(Not ranked in order of preference by me or anyone else
at TexShare)
For Ovid: (MLA, Nursing Collection I & II, Lippincott
Springhouse Nursing
Collection, CINAHL)
Jeff Gustafson
972-562-4458
972-562-2159(fax)
jgustafson@ovid.com
For Gale: (Scribner's & Twayne's)
Liz Valentine
Sr. Account Manager (Electronic)
PH: 800-877-4253 ext. 1762
liz.valentine@gale.com
Cathy Williamson
Sr. Field Account Executive (Print/Electronic)
PH: 800-877-4253 ext. 2223
cathy.williamson@gale.com
Patrick Henderson
Account Manager (Print)
PH: 800-877-4253 ext. 1999
patrick.henderson@gale.com
Brian Aertker
Primary Source Microfilm
Sr. Regional Sales manager
PH: 888-739-7230
brian.aertker@gale.com
Please visit us at: www.gale.com
For Bowker (BIP & Ulrich's):
Bryan Gottsman
Field Account Executive
866-339-0885
512-339-0885
byran.gottsman@bowker.com
For Proquest: (elibrary from bigchalk)
Oliver Kelzenberg
512-259-6777 (Austin)
oliver.kelzenberg@il.proquest.com
For Ebsco: (Salud para Todos or CINAHL)
Brian Duncan
940-483-8353 Office
800- 653-2726 EXT. 376
bduncan@epnet.com
For Grolier ( ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA, GROLIER MULTIMEDIA
ENCYCLOPEDIA, THE NEW BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, NUEVA ENCICLOPEDIA
CUMBRE EN LINEA)
Mark Cummings
Vice President and Publisher
Grolier Online
(203) 797-3860
mcummings@scholasticlibrary.com
For OCLC/FirstSearch
Barbara Nicholls
800-843-8482
nicholls@amigos.org
Ron Glass
Phoenix, AZ 85003
(877) 490-5750(toll-free)
602-538-2631 (cell)
602-285-0099 (fax)
glassr@oclc.org
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