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A Guide to Resources Currently Available Through The Programme
for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERI)
This document is intended as a comprehensive guide to the resources presently
available through PERI for researchers and librarians in Belarus. Through PERI,
resources have been negotiated wherever possible on a country-wide basis although
please note that, in order to activate access, Institutes must register with the
publisher of each resource they wish to access.
This document therefore includes a brief description of each information resource
to help you get a feel for the content within it plus a description of the process
which you will need to follow in order to set up access for the resources of your
choice, for your institute. Under the terms which INASP (and PERI) operates, all
research institutes and libraries operating in a non-profit environment within
Belarus are entitled to access to these resources.
Through the PERI programme, subscription/access fees for information resources
have been specially negotiated in an effort to make them as affordable and therefore
as sustainable as possible for Institutes in developing and transitional countries.
Funds are available through PERI to help pay for resources. Wherever possible,
negotiations between PERI and the Publishers have been for country-wide licenses
so that the maximum number of institutes can benefit from each resource and prices
have been negotiated as low as possible. Some resources have already been paid
for, for 2002 on a country-wide basis, by libraries and research institutes within
Belarus - these are indicated below.
To help coordinate the requirements and needs of all institutes, INASP is working
with a Country Coordinator for Belarus, Ms. Yulia Anisimova who is Librarian at
the European Humanities University in Minsk. Libraries and research institutes
in Belarus are asked to work with Ms. Anisimova during the assessment and acquisition
phase. Ms. Anisimova's contact details are as follows:
Ms. Julia Anisimova
Librarian
European Humanities University
Room 103, 3/2 P.Brovka Street
Minsk 220013, Belarus
Tel (+375 17) 232 32 52, (+375-17) 232 22 82
Fax (+375 17) 289 11 59
E-mail: julia@ehu.by
When you have read through this document, please prioritise the resources to
which you and your research colleagues would be interested in gaining access and
contact Ms. Anisimova indicating those resources that you and your colleagues
feel your institute needs. Funds are available through PERI (funded by INTAS)
to help pay for resources as they are prioritised in this process. Please note
however that this is a finite resource totalling less than 30,000 Euros for each
of the years 2002, 2003 and 2004. Wherever possible, negotiations between PERI
and the Publishers have been for country-wide licenses so that the maximum number
of institutes can benefit from each resource and prices have been negotiated as
low as possible. If resources are required which are not listed as being available
presently, please let Ms. Anisimova and myself,
Sarah Durrant know. It is my role within
INASP to secure as many required resources as possible and I will endeavour to
contact the appropriate publisher/s and encourage them to join the PERI initiative.
Ms. Anisimova will be in touch concerning the details of the process for assessing
and prioritising resources. Please retain this document as it contains information
you will need later on when you will need to register your Institute with each
of the publishers listed below, for those resources Belarusn Libraries and Research
Institutes collectively decide to prioritise.
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Resources available presently through the PERI programme
Publisher: Blackwell
Name of service: Blackwell-Synergy; Blackwell (through Ingenta)
License Agreed: Country-wide for all not-for-profit libraries, research
and
learning institutes within Belarus
Service Type: Online Journals Databases
Presently, Blackwell journals are available through two separate platforms:
i. Blackwell-Synergy, which is owned and run by Blackwell and contains Blackwell's
science, technology and medical titles.
ii. Ingenta, a separate online service which contains all of Blackwell's humanities
and social sciences titles. (NB: Ingenta provides an online journals service for
over 180 other publishers. You will be able to view the ToCs and abstracts for
journals from these publishers but you will only have access rights to the full
text of Blackwell Social Sciences and Humanities journals).
Content available:
access to just over 600 leading learned journals in science, technology, medicine
(on Synergy) and social sciences and humanities (on Ingenta).
Subject Strengths
• journals on Blackwell-Synergy
- all life sciences, medicine/health, ecology
• journals on Ingenta
- accountancy and economics, cultural studies (especially Asian/African/Australian/International
studies), development issues, history, management studies, social policy
Service Strengths -- Synergy
• full text of Blackwell
STM titles available, many going back to 1990's
• very clean interface
and excellent navigation
• in-depth title information
for each journal
• free Table of Contents
alerting service available for all users, for all titles
• many articles available
in HTML and PDF
• comprehensive search
facility including saved search facility for repeat queries
• personalisation features
- My Synergy
• user statistics available
Service Strengths -- Ingenta
• full text of Blackwell
Social Science & Humanities titles available
• intuitive layout for
good browsing experience
• some articles available
in HTML and PDF
• free access to the
thousands of tables of contents and abstracts to hundreds of further journals
from publishers other than Blackwell
How Do I Gain Access?
Contact Ms. Anisimova if your institution requires access to this resource.
She will place an order with INASP which will secure the country-wide license
for Belarus. Once this country-wide license has been purchased individual institutions
will also need to register themselves. At this stage, you will need to contact
me, Sarah Durrant at PERI or Grigor
Rowe at Blackwell to obtain a copy of a Help document which shows you how
to enable access from your Institute. You will also be required to sign a shorter
license for your specific Institute. The help document will assist you here.
Contact for Help//Support at Blackwell: Grigor.Rowe@blacksci.co.uk
Publisher: EBSCO.
This resources is already available in Belarus -- please contact Ms. Anisimova
for details
Name of service: EBSCO Host
License Agreed: Resource not available in Belarus through PERI (see above)
Service Type: Online Databases of Journals and other learned content (CDs
available for all institutes).
How Do I Gain Access?
Please contact Ms. Anisimova for details.
Web sites for further information
Full information on each of the 7 EBSCO databases available through PERI can be
found at http://www.epnet.com/
Contact for Help//Support:
Alex Saltzman ASaltzman@epexchange.epnet.com |
