Swets Blackwell and ScienceDirect announce linking agreement Sarah Kellman 12 Sep 2000 19:40 UTC
+++ Press Release +++ Lisse, The Netherlands, 12 September 2000 Swets Blackwell and ScienceDirect announce linking agreement Provides UK NESLI users with new options for accessing the world's largest collection of scientific, technical and medical journals ScienceDirect and Swets Blackwell announced yesterday the signing of an agreement to establish linking between ScienceDirect and SwetsnetNavigator for UK universities participating in NESLI. NESLI is the UK's National Electronic Site Licence Initiative, in which Swets Blackwell is a partner in the role of Managing Agent. The agreement will provide participants with increased flexibility through a variety of linking options to ScienceDirect's vast Web database of scientific technical and medical journals. "We are pleased that our linking agreement with Swets Blackwell adds extra value for current ScienceDirect users in the UK," said Eric de Wilde, Director of the Regional Sales Office, Elsevier Science Amsterdam. "We will continue to seek opportunities to provide our customers with greater flexibility and choice with regard to how they can access the information they need." Under the terms of the agreement, authorised NESLI users of SwetsnetNavigator, whose institutions are also subscribers to ScienceDirect, will be able to link from tables of contents, abstracts and search results in SwetsnetNavigator to the journal articles in ScienceDirect. In addition, the agreement allows NESLI users to link to ScienceDirect via the NESLI website (www.nesli.ac.uk), as well as access articles directly via the ScienceDirect site. Commenting on the development, Steven Hartman, Sales and Marketing Director of Swets Blackwell, said "The linking agreement will provide significant benefits for NESLI institutions. Access to the key data in ScienceDirect will now be possible via multiple options - via the NESLI / SwetsnetNavigator single interface, by way of a link on the NESLI website or directly through ScienceDirect. Users will be able to choose their preferred route." NESLI, the National Electronic Site Licence Initiative has been established by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils, and is a service designed to promote the widespread delivery and use of electronic journals in the UK Higher Education and research community. NESLI is an initiative to address the many issues which at present hinder the most effective use, access and purchase of electronic journals in the academic library community. A partnership between Swets Blackwell and MIMAS at the University of Manchester act as the Managing Agent for NESLI to coordinate delivery of the electronic material, undertake negotiations with publishers and oversee the day-to-day operation of the programme to ensure that it provides value for money through cost effective operation. (see www.nesli.ac.uk <http://www.nesli.ac.uk> ) SwetsnetNavigator offers a single point of access to a large range of full-text titles, as well as tables of contents and abstracts. A new release of SwetsnetNavigator with enhanced search functions has recently become available. 65 publishers are currently participating in SwetsnetNavigator, representing over 3,400 scholarly and research journals. More information on the growing number of titles available in the service can be found by visiting www.swetsnetnavigator.com <http://www.swetsnetnavigator.com> . For further information please contact Sarah Kellman, Communication Executive at Swets Blackwell. Tel: +31 (0)252 435 584 Fax: +31 (0)252 415 888 Email: press@nl.swetsblackwell.com www.swetsblackwell.com <http://www.swetsblackwell.com>