EDINA newsline
June 2009: Volume 14 Issue 2
Information on how to subscribe, or ensure renewal for 2009/10, for online services at EDINA is available on our website.
As announced previously, institutions can renew at the same level of fees and on the same terms of licence agreement (save a few improvements) for the period 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2010. Fees are charged according to the JISC banding scheme, and are listed on the JISC Collections website (see link below).
Meanwhile, Ordnance Survey and JISC Collections are working on the general licence to cover a full five-year period to 31 July 2014. Later this year, JISC Collections will be consulting with the Digimap community about a new subscription model, to take effect from 1 August 2010, that should enable more institutions to afford the full range in the Digimap Collections: Ordnance Survey Collection, Historic Digimap, Marine Digimap and Geology Digimap.
At the end of July 2009 the current Film & Sound Online agreement will be extended by a further year to July 2010. The service will continue to be free, and the sub-licence has been amended to reflect the new end date of the agreement.
Subscribing institutions have already been contacted by the JISC Collections Helpdesk and asked to confirm whether they would like to remain in the agreement for this extra year to 31 July 2010. If you did not receive this email, please contact the JISC Collections Helpdesk on subscriptionshelp@jisc.ac.uk. Once you have confirmed, you need take no further action.
If this confirmation is not received then your institution’s access to Film & Sound Online will end on 1 August 2009.
Non-subscribing institutions may also participate in the agreement by completing the sub-licence form at the link below.
EDINA offers a number of key specialist online services in addition to its core JISC-funded services. The licences for these services often extend beyond just academic institutions, and in most cases allow individuals as well as organisations to subscribe and have access.
Institutional trials are available for those wishing to evaluate any of the services simply by contacting us at edina@ed.ac.uk
The leading applied-life-science bibliographic database compiled by CAB International and offered by EDINA since 1999 now contains over five million records from 1973 to date, with 150,000 records added annually from over 10,000 serial titles, books, monographs, technical reports, proceedings and theses.
A weekly index of current practice and developments in temperate agriculture and all rural topics, compiled and edited at Aberystwyth University. A recent interface upgrade added new links within the service and streamlined certain other features.
One of the best sources of contemporary comment on Britain’s experience of the agricultural and industrial revolutions. In addition to the standard annual subscriptions, individuals have options to subscribe for shorter periods – two, six or 12 months – via an online payment system which enables instant access to the service.
Online access to grid-square Agricultural Census data for England, Scotland and Wales, from 1969 to present. Users can visualise or download data, and the service now offers download in the OGC Standard KML format which will allow registered users to visualise the data using open geo-browsers.
A free demonstration is available from the website.