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Re: E-resources marketed direct-to-consumer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sloan, Bernie)
Mon May 22 20:06:39 2000
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Neosha,
I'm glad you made that point. A number of writeups for other services like
this read the same way, as if the people writing the copy were thinking that
you couldn't get anything FROM the library unless you went TO the library.
They sound as if they are unaware of the great strides libraries have made
in offering remote access to information resources.
Bernie Sloan
-----Original Message-----
From: Neosha A. Mackey [mailto:nam756f@MAIL.SMSU.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 11:42 AM
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Subject: E-resources marketed direct-to-consumer?
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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Neosha A. Mackey
Associate Dean of Library Services
Duane G. Meyer Library
901 South National Avenue
Springfield, MO 65804-0095
(417) 836-4525 Fax:(417) 836-4764
E-mail: nam756f@mail.smsu.edu
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