Multinational Licence Agreement
Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks
Wiley Interscience OnlineBooks™ is an online platform offering access to over 5,000 e-books, and includes content from Science, Medicine, Technology, Humanities, and the Social Sciences.
Institutions can pick and choose the titles they want from a growing list of over 5000 titles, with approximately 30-50 new titles added each month. Alternatively, Wiley can recommend subject clusters for you.
For a full list of titles available please see: http://www.wiley.com/trackthrough?urlcode=R4L_onlinebooks_list.
This agreement offers discounts when you buy 20 or more e-books from the Wiley InterScience collection. Once purchased, you will own your choice of titles outright: there are no annual subscription charges, and you will have free access to your e-books via the OnlineBooks platform.
The cost of each e-book title is based on the US list price for the hardcover version, and you can purchase additional titles at any time during this agreement.
1. Content Description and title list
2. Subscription and Licensing Terms
3. Offer including pricing
4. Functionality and Standards Compliance
5. Library Support Information
1. Content Description
Content description
OnlineBooks includes over 5,000 electronic monographs from Wiley Blackwell. Titles cover all academic disciplines with new titles added monthly.
Main Subject Areas
Chemistry, electrical engineering and telecommunications, life and medical sciences, physical sciences, and mathematics and statistics.
Academic Level of Service
Undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral.
Timeline of offer
The agreement starts on the 1 August 2008. Once an institution has purchased their e-books, they will own these e-books in perpetuity. The pricing offered to the Knowledge Exchange from Wiley Blackwell will end on the 31 July 2011.
Updates
New titles are added monthly.
Other Institutions that have expressed interest in or who are subscribing to this agreement
KE will update this section.
2. Subscription and Licensing Terms
How to subscribe
To purchase your selected e-book titles
- Save the licence and read through the terms and conditions (the licence agreement is available on your countries KE website – see below)
- Select the e-books you wish to purchase from the list of e-book titles available
- Complete the licence by filling in your information in the sections highlighted in yellow. Please remember to list the e-books you wish to purchase in Schedule 2 of the licence
- Send two completed copies of the licence to:
Ms Ellen Englefield
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
3rd Floor, International House,
7 High Street
London, W5 5DB
UK
Additionally, please email the list of e-books you want to buy to the relevant contacts below:
For further instructions on how to subscribe, the pricing and to access the licence agreement:
Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks Licence terms
This agreement complies with the terms of the JISC Model Licence and starts on the 1 August 2008. Institutions licence the e-books direct with Wiley Blackwell and e-books purchased are licensed in perpetuity.
If you currently subscribe to the current JISC Collections Wiley InterScience Agreement, you can transfer into this one for the purchase of new titles.
The current pricing offer from Wiley Blackwell to the Knowledge Exchange will end on the 31st July 2011 but this will not affect the e-books that an institution has purchased in perpetuity.
4. Functionality and Standards Compliance
Federated Searching
Federated searching is supported.
MARC Records
MARC records are available via OCLC and other third party vendors. For more information, see the MARC records frequently asked questions (PDF).
For e-books published from October 2005 through to February 2007, Wiley Blackwell provides a page where the MARC records can be download. MARC Records for OnlineBooks.
Metadata Standards
This resource complies with Dublin Core metadata standards.
Search Options
Users can search across all titles in the collection using standard and advanced searches. Advanced search options allow the use of boolean operators. Users can restrict their search to publication type, subject area, and date range.
Post Search Options
Users can save, edit, and reorder search results. They can also sign up to email alerts for
newly added material meeting a search criterion.
Usage Statistics
COUNTER compliant statistics are available quarterly.
Authentication
Access via the UK Access Management Federation will be available from summer 2009. Access is currently available via IP range.
Personalisation of the Online Resource
Users can bookmark titles and articles, and save searches.
Accessibility
This resource complies with section 508 (1998 amendments) of the US Rehabilitation Act 1973, and with priority 1 of W3Cs web accessibility guidelines: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
5. Library Support Information
Login URL
www.interscience.wiley.com/customer
Product Documentation
Online product information is available.
Training Materials
Online tutorials are available.
Technical & User Support
Online support is available.
Administrative Support
Ellen Englefield eenglefi@wiley.co.uk.
User Support
Documentation regarding features for end users, including tools, individual access, and rights& permissions, will be provided on the “Resources / Researchers & Students” pages. Indexed Help pages will provide additional documentation.
Trial Access
Trial access would be in the form of 12 standard titles and by exception individual institutions may be granted access to a larger set of titles on a trial basis
Knowledge Exchange contacts
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