Coop Connection—May 2012
News and Trials for: All Libraries | Academic | K-12 | Public
News for All Libraries
Playaway Promotion
Now is a great time to freshen up your media center and library’s Playaway collections with a 50% discount offer from Recorded Books. Any Recorded Books Playaway title is available at an incredible 50% off for titles published in 2011 or earlier when an order has the promotional code X3495 included with the order. Over 5000 titles including the most popular authors and series (i.e. Lord of the Rings books, Alex Rider, Ranger’s Apprentice, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and all the big authors like Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, John Sandford, Sandra Dallas, etc.) are included. For a complete listing of available titles please contact Brad Gray at bgray@recordedbooks.com.
Orders may be place online at www.recordedbooks.com or via Brad. Orders must be received by July 15, 2012.
Through June 30, Gale Digital Collections is offering discounted pricing on National Geographic Archive 1888-1994
dc.gale.com/products/national-geographic-magazine-archive-1888-1994/
WiLS now offers PsycARTICLES and PsycINFO with an EBSCO, ProQuest or Ovid interface. PsycTESTS is also available from Ovid. Please email for a trial.
Commit to subscribe to The Chronicle of Higher Education and receive access from now until our group subscription starts on September 1.
On April 15 CQ Press introduced the beta version of State Stats, which includes data from 1994 to the present and content from CQ’s State Rankings series.
If we add enough libraries to our 8/1 ebrary Academic Search Complete, we will be able to reduce the price for everyone in the group. Please email for pricing or a trial.
EBSCO introduces their Academic ebook Subscription Collection. Please email for pricing for a possible July 1 group.
EBSCO is offering 50% off on all of their Wilson Retrospective products for purchases made by June 30.
Gale announces introductory pricing (through June 30) on its new Business Insights: Global database, which is designed to address the needs of new generation of business researchers.
Subscribe to any new Oxford database (excluding law products) and pay 2012/13 prices and receive free access until the subscription begins on July 1 (these new subscriptions will need to be paid for before July 1)
WiLS is working with other consortia to offer discounted pricing to PrivCo, a relatively new business database that provides information on non-publicly traded corporations. Trials lasting through the end of May are offered. Decisions on subscribing need to be made by June 15 for a July 1 start.
Springer is offering discounted pricing on Springer Archives Pricing will be sent out separately.
Please find the list of upcoming group renewals below. Please send an email to Kirsten if you are interested in running a trial or getting pricing for any of the following databases.
Please note that for some group databases there are options to upgrade to full text.
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Aug |
Sept |
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Academic OneFile (Gale) |
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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) |
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x |
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Access Science (McGraw Hill) |
x |
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Alternative Press Index (EBSCO) |
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x |
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x |
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Books in Print (BIP) (Bowker) (ProQuest)) |
x |
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x |
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x |
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Business Source Complete (EBSCO) |
x |
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x |
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x |
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CINAHL (EBSCO) |
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x |
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x |
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Congressional (ProQuest) (formerly LexisNexis) |
x |
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Criminal Justice (ProQuest) |
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x |
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ebrary (ProQuest) |
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x |
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EconLIt (EBSCO) |
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x |
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Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) |
x |
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International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) (ProQuest) Full Text |
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x |
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x |
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x |
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MLA (EBSCO) |
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x |
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New Testament Abstracts (EBSCO) |
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x |
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Nursing & Allied Health Journals (ProQuest) |
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x |
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Old Testament Abstracts (EBSCO) |
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x |
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context (GALE) formerly Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center |
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x |
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Oxford (ALL Oxford databases and most Oxford products)including Oxford English Dictionary (OED), Art, Music, American National Biography (ANB), Oxford Reference Online (ORO), etc. |
x |
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PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES (EBSCO, ProQuest or OVID) |
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x |
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Research Library (ProQuest) |
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x |
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RILM (EBSCO |
x |
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Statistical Insight (ProQuest) (formerly LexisNexis) |
x |
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May 15th is the deadline to return your subscription renewal spreadsheet. Please contact Lisa Marten with questions or changes to your subscriptions for next year at lmartin@wils.wisc.edu
O
verDrive Small School Pricing
To help you add eBooks to your school library & classrooms, OverDrive is pleased to announce new pricing for schools under 1,000 students!
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Have you recently purchased iPads, Kindles or Nooks for your students?
· Are you looking for new ways to integrate reading with technology?
· Would you like to provide a convenient, engaging Summer Reading program with eBooks?
Now you can add a complete eBook lending library at 20% off the regular annual rate. Starting at $1,595 for schools & districts under 500 students and $2,395 for schools & districts under 1,000 students. You will receive 24/7 access to a custom-branded website and compatibility with all major devices, including PC, Mac®, iPad®, Nook and Kindle®! See order form (pdf).
For a list of titles or questions, please contact Sara Gold at sgold@wils.wisc.edu
Order forms must be received by June 30th however we are happy to delay billing to allow the use of next year’s funds.
New School Download Library Member
OverDrive welcomes Whitehall School District as one of its newest School Download Library members.
Renewal pricing spreadsheets will be sent out to SCLS member libraries beginning in August. If your library system is interested in participating in group subscriptions like SCLS, please contact Sara Gold at sgold@wils.wisc.edu
