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Under the terms negotiated by a committee of NYSHEI members comprised of representatives from Colgate, CUNY, RPI & Vassar your current ACS contract will increase by the following rates over the next five years. These flat rates contrast favorably with projected annual increases that ranged from 7 to 16 percent, depending upon institution.

The rate increases are for 2009, 5.25%; for 2010, 5.60%; for 2011, 5.75%; for 2012, 5.75%; and for 2013, 5.75%.

EBSCO will manage the contracts.

Contact NYSHEI, EBSCO or ACS for more details.

The policy provides enhanced support for advocacy for specific projects that meet NYSHEI criteria, spelled out below. The intention is to leverage the enhanced advocacy focus (executive director and retained lobbying firm) of NYSHEI for subsets of member institutions.

The Policy

Upon approval of a proposal, the Executive Director of NYSHEI will serve as a consultant to any New York academic library group. Advice, support, and strategic consultation will be provided based upon the nature of the project and its congruence with NYSHEI’s mission. Collaboration between public and independent academic libraries will also be a value that will be considered when reviewing project proposals.

Upon a majority vote of the Governing Board, NYSHEI may agree to support an advocacy agenda item submitted by a New York State-based association, consortium or other collaborative group that serves academic and research libraries, provided that:

1) A minimum of two-thirds of the members of the petitioning group are also NYSHEI members, and

2) The proposed agenda item serves the interests of the petitioning group and not the exclusive interests of one or more of its members, and

3) The proposed project fits the NYSHEI mission;

To petition for NYSHEI advocacy consultation, an interested group should submit a 2-3 page proposal to the NYSHEI Executive Director for discussion at the next meeting of the Governing Board. The petition should include the scope and cost of the proposal, as well as a description of previous advocacy and any relevant limitations or opportunities related to the success of the proposal. Following the NYSHEI Governing Board meeting, the Executive Director will respond directly to the petitioner.

Proposals for advocacy consultation projects adopted by NYSHEI must be resubmitted with each newly seated legislature (every two years).

At the American Library Association 2008 Midwinter Meeting NYSHEI members will be able to enjoy a few exclusive opportunities courtesy of our friends at Thomson Scientific.

**Don’t miss these exciting Thomson Scientific events during ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia!**

>>> Prize Drawing: Exclusively for NYSHEI members! Register for a chance to win a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate. Just print this offer out and bring it with you to Thomson Scientific booth # 1204, or the VIP lounge, room 113 on Sunday, January 13th in the Convention Center. A Thomson Scientific staff member will swipe your card to enter you into the drawing.

>>> VIP Lounge Access: Take advantage of this opportunity to enjoy refreshments, free wireless Internet, and the company of your colleagues on Sunday, January 13th in the Convention Center, room 113.

>>>VIP Workshop–Sunday, January 13th: Located just next door to the VIP lounge, the workshop will offer 3 unique sessions designed to show you how Thomson Scientific’s full suite of research solutions can aid effective exploration, analysis, and collaboration at your institution. Register now! Click here.

>>> The Knowledge Cafe: Come to booth # 1204 to see the new face of research. ISI Web of Knowledge is all new and available now. See a demonstration and enter for a chance to win great prizes.

As our second year of library participation comes to a close, I thought you might be interested to learn that 33 libraries from the NYSHEI community have joined nearly 400 libraries – from more than 10 countries – in supporting the Portico archive. This support has been vital to establishing Portico as a robust, trustworthy solution for the long-term preservation of electronic scholarly materials. As our archival work is far from done, we require broad participation from the global library community.

Portico recognizes libraries that initiate support over 2006-07 as Archive Founders and provides a saving toward their Annual Archive Support (AAS) payment. The Archive Founder saving is applied each year for the first five years of participation and is combined with an additional 5% consortium savings that results from NYSHEI’s outreach partnership with Portico. The AAS for Archive Founders remains set for five years; however, eligibility for the Archive Founder program closes on December 31.

At Portico, we’re building a sustainable enterprise to preserve scholarly electronic materials and help ease the community’s transition from print to a reliance on electronic resources. Currently, 46 publisher participants have committed more than 7,200 titles – approximately 10 million articles – for long-term preservation in Portico: http://portico.org/about/part_publishers.html. For more than 70% of these titles, Portico has been designated by the publisher as one source of post-cancellation access. We have ongoing discussions with publishers from across the spectrum of commercial houses, university presses, and scholarly societies and we expect that publisher participation will continue to grow over the coming years.

We are grateful to the libraries and publishers that have collaborated with us to build a reliable, permanent journal archive and welcome the opportunity to work with interested NYSHEI libraries now and in the future. If you are in a position to consider Portico in 2007, then please contact me at your earliest convenience to discuss the process of completing a license agreement.

Regards,

Ken

Kenneth DiFiore, MLS
Associate Director of Library Relations, Portico
tel: 212 358-6415
fax: 212 358-6499
email: ken.difiore@portico.org
web: www.portico.org

On October 2, 2007, from 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Portico will present a webcast exclusively for NYSHEI members.

As researchers, faculty and students become more dependent upon the convenience and enhanced accessibility of electronic scholarly journals, there has been wide-spread concern about the long-term preservation and future accessibility of this valuable educational resource.

The Portico archiving service offers a permanent archive of electronic scholarly journals, thereby providing protection against the potential loss of access to e-literature integral to a library’s collection. Portico also provides a reliable means to secure perpetual access, if participating publishers choose to designate Portico as a provider of post-cancellation access.

Please join Portico for a review of their archiving service along with an update on the Archive’s progress in 2007.

To participate in this event, please send an email to participation@portico.org.

Therefore, if your institution is a Pi2 member please contact Serial Solutions and let them know you are in Pi2. By making Serial Solutions aware of your Pi2 membership the UTL holding will be automatically updated – meaning you will no longer need to do this locally.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. I will do my best to provide assistance.

The offer is only good until June 30, 2007.