We are very pleased to share this announcement from Nylink’s partner, and leader in the Lexis Nexis national aggregation, Lyrasis.  This is great news!   Details specific to Nylink’s subscribers will be forthcoming as soon as we have renewal details from Lyrasis.

“Atlanta, GA, February 5, 2010:  Last year, LexisNexis supported the ICOLC Global Economic Crisis Statement by agreeing to waive their 2.5% annual increase on LexisNexis products associated with the ICOLC aggregation. As a result, subscribers to these LexisNexis products renewed at a high renewal rate.

In recognition of this loyalty and to show continued support of the ICOLC Global Economic Crisis Statement, LYRASIS has once again asked LexisNexis to agree to a flat renewal for the next renewal year. We are excited to announce that LexisNexis has agreed. Consequently, the cost will remain flat for members of the aggregation for one more year regardless of FTE changes. Details regarding the renewal process will be forthcoming from LYRASIS within the next two weeks.” In addition, for those libraries that subscribe to both LexisNexis Statistical – Base Edition and LexisNexis Statistical Research Tables products, the renewal price decreased effective January 1, 2010. This price decrease has been applied to current agreements and LexisNexis is in the process of issuing credits to current subscribers. The decrease is a result of the combination of these two products to form LexisNexis Statistical Insight Tables……” 

Read the entire press release at http://www.lyrasis.org/News/Press-Releases/2010.aspx

For 4-year academic institutions with less than 2500 FTE and 2-year colleges of any size, the following special pricing for Cambridge Histories Online remains available through June 2010: $3600 one-time purchase price with $400 annual fee beginning in year two for hosting and new content.

This special one-time purchase price is 50% of the normal Nylink-discounted rate at the lowest pricing tier. The $400 ongoing annual fee is also discounted greatly from the usual $750 fee.

Learn more about this 250-plus volume collection of award-winning titles from Cambridge University Press’ acclaimed Histories series at http://histories.cambridge.org/public_home. 

Discounted pricing on CHO is always available through Nylink for academic institutions of all sizes.

Contact Nylink at services@nylink.org to confirm pricing for your academic library.

January and February are not the most colorful months here in the Northeast. Exercise your eyes with a trial to the Wilson Cinema and Art Museum Image Galleries. Nylink has arranged a special trial, available at http://www.hwwilson.com/nylink.htm, for several key Wilson Art resources. In addition to the highly-praised image galleries, the trial, which requires registration for first-time users, includes Art Full Text, Art Index Retro, and the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. For this trial period, Wilson has agreed to special discounts for Nylink members and affiliates who subscribe to these resources before the trial ends on 2/28.
The trial page also offers brief interactive demos of the image galleries.
Contact us at services@nylink.org to get a quote today!

BioOne is pleased to celebrate the new year by welcoming six new titles and their respective not-for-profit publishers to the 2010 BioOne Collections. At least two years of back content has been made available for each title, all of which is now accessible via your BioOne subscription. For more information, click on each hyperlinked title below.

To BioOne.1:
International Forestry Review, published by the Commonwealth Forestry Association (UK)

To BioOne.2:

• Acta Ornithologica, published by the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Annales Zoologici, published by the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Freshwater Reviews, published by the Freshwater Biological Association (UK)
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, published by the Entomological Society of Washington

To BioOne Open Access:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, published by the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences
If you need more information about BioOne, you may want to sign up for one of their webinars. Please see http://www.bioone.org for a complete webinar schedule.

For discounted pricing info for Nylink members and affiliates, please contact services@nylink.org.

Need to know how to create durable links to foreign language news sources within LexisNexis Academic? Several lists of the foreign language news (with URLs you can grab and use) sources are available, including:

LN Wiki: Foreign Language Sources

LN Delicious: Foreign Language News Sources

In the new interface there is a page for foreign language news that will highlight holdings in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Find out more about the new interface by attending one of the free webinars now scheduled!

Journal Search: Looking for a specific title? Using journal title or ISSN, quickly track down a journal and its coverage dates in the more than 500 electronic collections in the True Serials knowledge base.

Resource Comparison: Analyze titles, coverage dates and overlap for any two of the more than 500 collections in the True Serials knowledgebase.

Join Lauren Pinsley for a live demo of True Serials at your local 3Rs! Next week Lauren will be at METRO on 1/25, and at the Nassau Library System on 1/26. More dates

Attendance is free, but we do appreciate your advance registration; sign up now!

Libraries will have six months to migrate to a new version of LexisNexis Academic under a “soft” release of previously announced interface enhancements. Important details, including instructions for EZproxy users, are available in the message below posted to the Academic e-mail list (sign up to join the list at http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/listserv).

From LN Academic List, January 6, 2010:

Subject: [ACADEMIC-LIST] Soft Release of Interface Enhancements for LexisNexis Academic

Dear Colleagues,

After 18 months of development and very successful Beta testing last fall, LexisNexis is pleased to announce the release of the enhanced interface for LexisNexis Academic. The new interface is available to all subscribers today at http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic/. 

Please see http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/academic/index.php?title=Academic_Help:_Overview for a guide to the changes in the new interface. If you are attending the ALA Midwinter Conference, please stop by Booth 2224 or join us for breakfast on Sunday (RSVP to Marina Ilishaev at marina.ilishaev@lexisnexis.com) for a demonstration. 

What is a “soft” release and why are we doing one? The soft release of the new interface means that the old version of the product will continue to be available at its current http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic URL until this summer when LexisNexis will redirect this URL (and all related URLs for title- and article-level links) to the new interface. This approach will provide a migration period of six months during which subscribing institutions can move to the product at their own pace. Based on what we learned in Beta testing, a migration period is the best way to ensure a smooth transition and uninterrupted service, especially for institutions that use proxy servers to provide authentication for remote users. 

A detailed guide to help subscribers move to the new interface will be published on the LexisNexis wiki in the coming days and announced on this listserv. 

Subscribers have the following options:

1. Switch to the new interface and update deep links to LexisNexis Academic used in the library catalog, electronic resource systems, and subject guides to complete the switch immediately.

2. Switch to the new interface for research, reference, and instruction but continue to use the old URLs for the deep links to LexisNexis Academic used in the library catalog, electronic resource systems, and subject guides to complete the switch in two phases.

3. Continue to use the old interface primarily, but promote use of the new interface to ensure that everyone is ready to use it at the end of the migration period, and update and test proxy server settings as needed to ensure uninterrupted service.

When the URLs to the old interface are redirected this summer, subscribers who have chosen to follow options 2 or 3 will be seamlessly migrated to the new interface.

– NOTES FOR FEDERATED SEARCH AND ARTICLE LINKER SYSTEMS — Federated search and article linker systems will continue to use deep links to the old interface until the end of the migration period in summer 2010. It is expected that users who come to LexisNexis Academic through deep links will not take much notice of the differences between the old and new interfaces. Article-level links will go to the full-text display which is virtually the same in both versions, and title-level links will go the Power Search form which is also very similar in both versions.

– NOTES FOR EZProxy USERS — OCLC has now published directions for institutions that wish to use EZProxy to provide user authentication to the new LexisNexis Academic interface. Please note that older versions of EZProxy will not work with the new LexisNexis Academic interface. If you have not implemented the no-charge upgrade to EZProxy Version 5.2 you should do this now.

EZProxy Resources from OCLC

 1.  Configuration Specifications for LexisNexis Academic: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/support/documentation/ezproxy/db/lexisnexis.htm 

 2.  Upgrade to EZproxy version 5.2: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/support/documentation/ezproxy/upgrade.htm

 Please continue to monitor this listserv for important updates.

Best regards,

Alistair

Alistair Morrison, MA, MLS

Product Manager

LexisNexis Academic & Library Solutions

7500 Old Georgetown Road, Suite 1300

Bethesda MD 20814

Telephone: 301-951-4529 | Switchboard: 800-638-8380 | Fax: 301-652-1273

Email: alistair.morrison@lexisnexis.com

Website: http://academic.lexisnexis.com

 Subscriber Wiki: http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/academic

Web Subscription Support: academicsupport@lexisnexis.com

Join Our ListServ: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/listserv

Below is a list of upcoming webinars on the new interface of LexisNexis Academic. Sign up to attend one of these free webinars at
http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicwebseminars/
Wednesday, January 6, 12 Noon (EST)
Wednesday, January 6, 2:00 p.m. (EST)
Monday, January 11, 2:00 p.m. (EST)
Tuesday, January 12, 12 Noon (EST)
Tuesday, January 12, 2:00 p.m. (EST)
Tuesday, January 12, 4:00 p.m. (EST)
Tuesday, January 19, 12 Noon (EST)
Thursday, February 4, 4:00 p.m. (EST)
Friday, February 5, 1:00 p.m. (EST)
Monday, February 8, 1:00 p.m. (EST)
Tuesday, February 16, 1:00 p.m. (EST)
Wednesday, February 17, 4:00 p.m. (EST)
Wednesday, February 24, 2:00 p.m. (EST)

Nylink offers premium discounts for LexisNexis. Find out more by contacting us at services[at]nylink.org.

Join Lauren Pinsley for a demo of True Serials, and see how it can help you to facilitate accurate inward & outward facing serials holdings through a robust hosted management environment that provides easy access to license and subscription/renewal terms, and streamlined local holdings record updating by batch to WorldCat.

With True Serials, you will be able to:

• Help your patrons find and use your e-journals and databases.
• Keep track of licenses, renewals, and other administrative data.
• Create accurate local holdings for your e-journals in WorldCat.

Dates

• METRO: 01/25 (1:00 PM-3:00 PM)
• Nassau Library System: 01/26 (1:00 PM-3:00 PM)
• Capital District Library Council: 02/08 (2:00 PM-4:00 PM)
• Rochester Regional Library Council: 02/22 (2:00 PM-4:00 PM)
• Western New York Library Resources Council: 02/23 (10:00 AM-12:00 PM)
• Central Library Resource Council: 02/23 (2:00 PM-4:00 PM)
• Southeastern New York Library Resources Council: 02/01 (1:00 PM-3:00 PM)

Attendance is free, but we do appreciate your advance registration; sign up now!