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BookData Online is an online search and discovery tool providing access to over 43.5m title records from over 86,500 publishers. It is an essential resource for librarians to search and identify books and review a book’s bibliographic details.
Agreement start: 1 August 2018
Agreement end: 31 July 2021
Subsequent invoice date: 1 May
VAT does apply to BookData Online
Site licence.
This Agreement is valid until 31 July 2021. Institutions may join the agreement at any time. They will then be committed to the agreement unless they choose to opt out by giving notice on or before 1 April annually.
No refunds will be issued for any unused portion of the service due to early termination.
A limited free trial is available, for more information email: sales.book@nielsen.com. Please copy Chest Help (help@chest.ac.uk) in on any requests for a trial.
Universities, colleges and other learning, educational and research bodies in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Other organisations aligned with Jisc’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Chest will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.
Renewal of a very popular resource for locating Book title records.
Owner: Nielsen Book Services Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number 70437), 3rd Floor,Midas House, 62 Goldsworth Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 6LQ
Nielsen Book is the leading provider of information for books and other published media providing timely, accurate and comprehensive data for English-language titles published worldwide. Title information is collected from publishers in over 70 countries to ensure the most comprehensive listing of English-language titles regardless of the publisher’s size, location or speciality.
Records contain:
Special Features:
There is a choice of UK & Ireland or international coverage:
[NB – figures above are from February 2021 – new records are being added all the time].
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| IP Address range | Yes |
| Shibboleth | No |
| Username / Password | Yes |
The supplier confirms that throughout the term of the agreement the products will comply with the standards indicated.
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Full text linking |
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Federated searching |
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Harvesting |
SRW/SRU |
No |
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No |
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| RSS or Atom |
No |
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Metadata standards |
Dublin Core |
Yes |
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Yes |
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Months embargo period |
N/A |
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Digital preservation |
Lockss |
No |
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| Clockss |
No |
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| Portico |
No |
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Usage statistics |
No |
Non-compliant statistics are available upon request from Nielsen | |
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No |
Non-compliant statistics are available upon request from Nielsen | ||
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Accessibility |
Yes |
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Personalisation features |
Yes |
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Service levels |
No |
Notes:
1 Nielsen BookData Online web pages are optimised for the highest standard of accessibility. All pages have been validated by an external agency and were found to be WAI-AAA compliant.
2 Each institution's BookData Online subscription can support multiple user profiles (usage limits are on concurrent use) and each user's profile can be personalised according to their needs. Search forms can be set and stored. The default results display format, sort order and print options can all be set. Searches can be saved for later use and new title alert emails can be sent out against those searches to the address saved in personal preferences. Lists of results can be printed, saved, exported and emailed in all the formats listed previously. The format of exported spreadsheets is also fully customisable by each user.
New content is added daily.
All additions and new functionality will be incorporated at no additional charge
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In subsequent years, Institutions will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement, on 1 May
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In subsequent years, Institutions will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement, on 1 July.
There is monthly, pro-rata charging for Institutions which become licensed partway through a licence year.
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Payments are due within thirty days of invoice date; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK statutory provisions.
Payments are due within thirty days of invoice date; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK statutory provisions.
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Keep a local cached copy for Educational Purposes |
Yes |
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Incorporation of parts of the Licensed Material |
Yes |
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Deposit learning and teaching objects in repositories |
Yes |
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Interlibrary loan |
Yes |
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User |
On site |
Remote access |
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Students |
Yes |
Yes |
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Staff |
Yes |
Yes |
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Walk-in users |
Yes |
Yes |
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Alumni members |
Yes |
Yes |
Please note that the Standard Licence can be extended for Extended Educational Purposes and Commercial Projects for additional fees.
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Exclusions:
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. No refunds will be issued for any unused portion of the service due to early termination.
The Fee for retention rights upon termination in accordance with clause 10.5 of the Terms and Conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Online Resources is nil.
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Personal licences are not available under this Agreement.
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