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Agreement start: 1 October 2016
Agreement end: 30 September 2019
Subsequent invoice date: 1 July
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Other organisations aligned with Eduserv’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Eduserv will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.
This continues the successful agreement which has been in place since 2007. which was negotiated in response to over 30 requests from Higher and Further Education institutions.
Owner: New Scientist Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number 10644366), whose registered office is 10 Snow Hill, London, EC1A 2AL.
New Scientist website is an important reference tool which gives users instant access to relevant and up-to-date science and technology content. This continually expanding library of news, analysis, facts and figures covers a large variety of science subjects including: life sciences, physics, chemistry, earth, environment, astronomy, space, maths and technology.
A subscription includes access to all editions published during the Chest Agreement plus access to all archived editions published between and including 1989 and the beginning of the Chest Agreement.
Newscientist.com readership
Core territories are the English-speaking world, but global business leaders, and cutting edge technologists and scientists access the website in every country.
It’s fantastic being able to read articles back into the 1990s, and the use of links from text within the body of articles makes it fun to explore and read further
* - Enthusiast reader
Extremely informative both for academics and people with no scientific background
* – Scientist reader
A good site to access archived articles
* – Student reader
*source – NPS survey, January 2016
OpenAthens | Yes* |
IP Address range | Yes |
Shibboleth | No |
Username / Password | No |
* New link: https://www.newscientist.com/openathens-connection
Technical Function |
Standard |
Compliance |
Full text linking |
No |
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Federated searching |
No |
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Harvesting |
SRW/SRU |
No |
OAI-PMH |
No |
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RSS or Atom |
No |
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Metadata standards |
Dublin Core |
No |
No |
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No |
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Months embargo period |
N/A |
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Digital preservation |
Lockss |
No |
Clockss |
No |
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Portico |
No |
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Usage statistics |
No |
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No |
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Accessibility |
No |
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Personalisation features |
No |
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Service levels |
No |
The supplier confirms that throughout the term of the agreement the products will comply with the standards indicated.
New content is added weekly.
All additions and new functionality will be incorporated at no additional charge.
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Keep a local cached copy for Educational Purposes |
No |
Incorporation of parts of the Licensed Material |
Yes |
Deposit learning and teaching objects in repositories |
Yes |
Interlibrary loan |
Yes |
User |
On site |
Remote access |
Students |
Yes |
Yes |
Staff |
Yes |
Yes |
Walk-in users |
Yes |
No |
Alumni members |
Yes |
No |
The resources can be used for Educational Purposes – defined as:
Exclusions:
There are no rights to retain access to any content post cancellation.
The Fee for early termination in accordance with clause 10.4 of the Terms and Conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources is nil.
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