JISC Collections’ event for librarians and information specialists, 20th November 2007 in London

JISC Collections’ Training Day – NESLi2 and the JISC Model Licence
Date: 20th November 2007
Venue: JISC Collections, Brettenham House, 5 Lancaster Place, London WC2E 7EN

Summary:
Central to the work of JISC Collections is the JISC Model Licence and the NESLi2 Model Licence for electronic journals. The training day aims to introduce librarians new to online resources and electronic journals to the principles embedded in the JISC Model Licence and the NESLi2 Model Licence respectively. It will also provide an update on the changes made to these licences in the past year in response to both the evolving information environment and to meeting the requirements of the JISC Collections’ community for wider user access.

There will be plenty of opportunity to ask those pressing licensing questions on behalf of your colleagues and yourself. If you would like to attend, please complete the online registration form.

New Education Image Gallery licence is available

The Education Image Gallery is a selection of 50,000 copyright-cleared images from the renowned Getty Images® collections with monthly updates. A further 10,000 images will be added over the lifetime of the agreement. The service can be used across a wide range of subject and course areas including:

• agriculture and land-based industries
• art and design
• architecture
• business
• computer science
• fashion studies
• history
• journalism
• media studies
• politics and international relations
• sociology and anthropology
• sports science
• tourism

Further details can be found here.

New Times Digital Archive licence is available

The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 provides convenient access to a library of back issues of this renowned newspaper online. By taking the microfilm collection of The Times (London) and producing a high-resolution digital format with searchable images, The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 represents unprecedented access to one of the most highly regarded resources for the study of 19th and 20th century history. It can be used across a range of subject areas including:

history - for the study of the role of patriotism in late 19th and early-20th century politics can be followed through articles on the Boer War, land reform, and Irish and Welsh nationalism

housing studies - to support study for the examination ‘Contemporary UK Housing Policy’, users can search and select articles on ‘the right to buy’ and read in particular about the role and extent of state intervention and shifts in the pattern of tenure, eg the vision of a ‘property-owning democracy’ which witnessed policies such as the selling of council houses

sociology - to analyse the effects of the mass media, especially on media stereotypes and how they have changed over time, their relation to crime and deviance, the rise of popular culture and the press reporting of protest and social movements

Please note: This new agreement is for one year only. In August 2008, following changes to the Times Digital Archive, there will be a new multi-year agreement put in place. Please contact the JISC Collections Helpdesk if you have any queries.

Further details can be found here.

New Ovid Arts Package agreement is available

The Ovid Arts Package is a collection of four Arts and Humanities 'Abstract and Indexing' databases, currently provided on the SilverPlatter platform. Each resource is available individually or can be combined and subject to a multi-product discount.

The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) presents contemporary literature from 1973 to the present day on the visual arts from the 4th century to modern times. The BHA database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogues, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals.

The Abstracts of Music Literature (RILM) covers international music scholarship, presenting significant writings from 1969 onward in the area of music - historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, performance practice and notation, dance, music therapy, theory and analysis, criticism, librarianship, and pedagogy. Sources include all types of media ranging from articles and ethnographic recordings to congress proceedings.

The Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM) provides annotated indexes to the content of complete runs of music journals published in 17 countries between approximately 1800 and 1950.

The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) contains four databases of global film scholarship, featuring the International Index to Film/TV Periodicals.

Further details can be found here.