From: Anthony W Ferguson <ferguson_at_columbia.edu>
Recently, the Northeast Research Libraries (NERL) consortium, of which Columbia
is a member, tried to put together a consortial licence agreement for
the Internet Securities Inc., Emerging Markets News Database. Our
license agreement was to provide unlimited campus-wide access to this
important source of information. We needed at least 7 members to get
the 30% discount offerred by the publisher. (we now have 4 yes's and
a couple maybe's)
THE PUBLISHER IS WILLING TO LET US ADD NON-NERL ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN
ORDER TO COME UP WITH THE NEEDED 7 LIBRARIES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS
E-MAIL IS TO SEE IF THERE ARE OTHER LIBRARIES OUT THERE WHO WOULD LIKE
TO JOIN WITH US IN THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT.
Here is some information from a blurb of theirs to give you an idea of what is
important about this source of information:
ISI Emerging Markets News is a comprehensive collection of full-text
news sources and financial information sources from emerging market
countries. [so far about 15-20 from Eastern Europe, South Asia, Latin
America, Africa and East Asia]. It covers news sources 1993 to the
present; financial sources 1991+; new records are added daily; there is
full key word access to the entire database; information can be
downloaded into spreadsheets; you can print as much as you want; it is
IP address controlled so if you can control who gets into your system,
you can open it up to your own users.
At Columbia this has become a mainstay database for our international
business and economics students -- eventhough they also have Lexis/Nexis and a
variety of other data sources that provide WB/IMF etc. international
IGO type data. It is of course valued by area studies -- which
initiated the original order and has paid for it up til now.
Since this is a all you can eat license, access to this kind of data
isn't free ($700 a month -- think of it as a good physics journal or a
bad chemistry journal).
If you are interested in joining with us in this license agreement,
please send me an e-mail message. I will forward your message to the
publisher who will contact you and give you a freebie trial. If you
are already a customer and are faced with the non 30% off price, you
can join with us as well.
tony
Anthony W. Ferguson
Associate University Librarian
Columbia University Libraries
Tel. 212-854-7401 (NEW NUMBER!!!!!!)
Fax. 212-222-0331
Net: ferguson_at_Columbia.edu
Received on Mon Sep 15 1997 - 09:49:02 EDT