[13314] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
E-resources marketed direct-to-consumer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neosha A. Mackey)
Fri May 19 20:03:54 2000
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:42:20 -0500
From: "Neosha A. Mackey" <nam756f@MAIL.SMSU.EDU>
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I just looked at the Campuspipeline. duh. on most of our campuses,
students can already e-mail faculty, staff and each other, check course
web-pages, search databases (with full-text) from library, computer labs,
dorms, home, etc. Of course we need to make sure they know that they can
do all this.
>I am looking for examples of Web-based full text e-resources that are being
>marketed directly to the "consumer". (The term "consumer" can be applied at
>a number of different levels, e.g., student, faculty member, college or
>university adiminstrator.......in other words marketed to someone besides
>the library).
>
>Following are a few examples to give you an idea of what I'm looking for.
>I'd appreciate hearing about other such services:
>
>ProQuest Academic Edition -- For $19.95 per semester, a student can get
>unlimited access to a collection of full text ProQuest resources. See the
>following for more info:
>
>http://ae.proquest.com/aegate/about/about.html
>
>Campus Pipeline -- Campus Pipeline markets what they call "the first Web
>platform for higher education. This platform revolutionizes the way higher
>education builds relationships with its students, faculty, staff and
>alumni." Campus Pipeline has a "Research Center" function, but the
>information about this function is rather sketchy. Campus Pipeline appears
>to be marketed to institutional administrators, and then faculty. See the
>following for a reference to the "Research Center" function:
>
>http://www.campuspipeline.com/whatwedo/daylife/daylife4.html
>
>WebCT "WebCourselets" -- These resources seem to offer mostly textbooks, and
>are marketed more towards institutional administrators, and then faculty.
>They are integrated into an online learning package (WebCT). For examples of
>content, see:
>
>http://about.webct.com/library/content_gallery_index.html
>
>Questia -- Questia is a very ambitous undertaking. The following statement
>is taken from their Web site: "The Questia service enables students to
>search, access and interact with thousands of important books and journals
>from anywhere: from home, from the computer lab or anywhere else they
>connect to the Internet. The Questia service will be live in early 2001 with
>at least 50,000 of the most valued volumes in the liberal arts from the 20th
>and 21st centuries (not including textbooks)." Additionally Questia aims to
>have 250,000 volumes digitized within three years. As their Web site notes
>"that's greater than the number of volumes in over 80 percent of all
>academic libraries in the United States." It will be marketed directly to
>students. For more on Questia see:
>
>http://www.questia.com/
>
>Thanks!!
>
>Bernie Sloan
>Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
>University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
>338 Henry Administration Building
>506 S. Wright Street
>Urbana, IL 61801
>Phone: (217) 333-4895
>Fax: (217) 333-6355
>E-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu
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