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(2002), "Consortium agreements with SwetsBlackwell", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 30 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2002.12230aab.009
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
Consortium agreements with SwetsBlackwell
Consortium agreements with SwetsBlackwellKeywords: Consortia, Libraries, Iceland
SwetsBlackwell have successfully arranged a ground-breaking national licence between the National Steering Committee of Iceland and six major STM publishers.
Under the terms of the agreement, Icelandic libraries, government and academic institutions, as well as private citizens, will have full-text access to journals published by the following distinguished publishers:
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Academic Press – now part of Elsevier Science;
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Blackwell Publishing;
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S. Karger Publishers;
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Kluwer Academic Publishers; and
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Springer-Verlag.
Iceland's 283,000 inhabitants can now access more than 2,000 e-journals from their offices as well as their private homes. For the first time, publishers can analyse the "e-journal behavior" of an entire nation.
SwetsBlackwell have also announced their appointment by the Swedish Federation of County Councils (SFCC) consortium to act as the handling agent for their electronic publications. The agreement with the consortium, whose official name is EiRA (Effective information Retrieval and Acquisition) is for a period of two years, and went into effect on September 1, 2001.
Under the terms of the agreement, SwetsBlackwell will be the principal supplier of electronic publications for the SFCC national hospital consortium, with all hospitals from 14 counties already on board. The content will be provided by Ovid Technologies Inc., which is the primary aggregator and provider of the five medical databases and 70 e-journals for this national consortium. Ovid's clinical solution is used by thousands of institutions around the world and combines top-quality evidence-based medicine content, bibliographic databases, full text journals and books and decision support tools with feature-rich software and interfaces designed to enhance the clinical decision-making process.
SwetsBlackwell has extensive international experience with various types of consortia within both the academic and the corporate sectors. They have been the Managing Agent for NESLI (National Electronic Site Licence Initiative) since 1998, and were recently reconfirmed in this role through 2002.
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