ANBAR & CHEST announce long-term partnership

["Claire Jones" <cjones@mcb.co.uk>]

Press release

ANBAR and CHEST announce long-term partnership to deliver access to Anbar
Management Intelligence, Computer Abstracts and International Civil
Engineering Abstracts.

Bradford, 04/09/98.

ANBAR and CHEST have reached agreement for the provision of Anbar
Management Intelligence, Computer Abstracts and International Civil
Engineering Abstracts to eligible institutions for a fixed five-year
period starting on 1st January 1999. Institutions can decide to join at
any time during the term of the agreement and will be bound until the end
of the agreement period.

Nigel Lodge, Director of CHEST, said "These are three products from MCB
for which CHEST has negotiated terms which are fixed for five years. The
products enable the academic community to have electronic access to an
additional wealth of specialist fulltext article and abstract information
in a number of subject areas. Institutions will be able to provide access
to content with full search capability at the desktop."

Gill Crawford, ANBAR's manager, said "These are very significant
agreements. Anbar Management Intelligence has long been seen as the UK's
leading management abstracting service, and International Civil
Engineering Abstracts and Computer Abstracts are highly regarded
world-wide and have been abstracting for over twenty five and forty years
respectively.

The combination of ANBAR's high quality content and editorial resources
and CHEST's ability to deliver excellent technical solutions and support,
long-term price stability and organisation-wide access will give the
Higher and Further Education Community in the UK, Ireland and the
Netherlands valuable new ways to access the world's computer science
literature."

CHEST and ANBAR are delighted to have negotiated the following excellent
agreements, which are open to Higher and Further Education in the United
Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands:

Anbar Management Intelligence
For a fixed annual payment of 2,700 pounds sterling for Higher Education
institutions or 1,500 pounds sterling for Further Education institutions,
access will be provided to Anbar Management Intelligence on-line and as a
CD-ROM database until 31st December 2003. For an additional 3,000 pounds
sterling per year a block of document delivery "credits" can also be
purchased to pay for documents ordered via ANBAR's document supply partner,
The British Library.

Anbar Management Intelligence abstracts every article published in an
accredited collection of more than 400 English language management
periodicals. Areas of coverage include: accounting and finance,
information management and technology, the management of quality,
marketing and logistics, operations and production management, human
resource management and strategic management. The database currently
includes more than 60,000 abstracts and several thousand book and resource
reviews. Further material is added on a monthly basis. Major service
features are as follows:

* three CD-ROMs per year with full database archive (1989 - date)
* online database, updated monthly, with full database archive (1989 - date)
* document delivery service, via The British Library, for full-text
retrieval of every article abstracted in the database

Computer Abstracts
For a fixed annual payment of 1,000 pounds sterling for Higher Education
institutions or 750 pounds sterling for Further Education institutions,
access will be provided to Computer Abstracts on-line and as a CD-ROM
database until 31st December 2003.

Computer Abstracts abstracts every article published in an accredited
collection of more than 200 English language computer science periodicals.
Areas of coverage include: hardware, computer systems organisation,
software, data, theory of computation, mathematics of computing,
information systems, computing methodologies, computer applications and
computing milieux. Major service features are as follows:

* three CD-ROMs per year with full database archive (1993 - date)
* on-line database, updated monthly, with full database archive (1993 -
date)
* document delivery service, via The British Library

International Civil Engineering Abstracts
For a fixed annual payment of 750 pounds sterling for Higher Education
institutions or 500 pounds sterling for Further Education institutions,
access will be provided to International Civil Engineering Abstracts on-line
and as a CD-ROM database until 31st December 2003.

International Civil Engineering Abstracts abstracts every article
published in an accredited collection of more than 150 English language
civil engineering periodicals. Areas of coverage include: construction
management, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, hydraulic
engineering, professional/educational matters, structural engineering and
transport engineering. Major service features are as follows:

* three CD-ROMs per year with full database archive (1972 - date)
* on-line database, updated monthly, with full database archive (1972 -
date)
* document delivery service, via The British Library

If you would like to know more about Anbar Management Intelligence,
Computer Abstracts, International Civil Engineering Abstracts or CHEST,
please contact:

Lynn Coulton
Anbar Electronic Intelligence
60-62 Toller Lane
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD8 9BY

Email: anbar@anbar.co.uk
Web: http://www.anbar.co.uk/anbar.htm

or

Emma Sudds
CHEST
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath
BA2 7AY

Tel: 01225 826982
Fax: 01225 826177
Email: Emma.Sudds@chest.ac.uk
Web (computing):
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/computer_abstracts/contents.html
Web (management):
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/anbar/contents.html
Web (civil engineering):
http://www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/civil_engineering/contents.html

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