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Re: Negotiating discount wit
From: Nina Fedoroff <fedoroff () mail1 ciwemb edu>
Date: 7 Jun 1993 07:41:07 +0000
Reply to: RE>Negotiating discount with I Dear Josh, It is not the case that ISI has heard from noone. We haven't heard from them. I talked to Vin Calahar twice and in our last converstation, asked him to give me a rough estimate of what $100,000 would buy us. By reservations about ISI are that the library subscription rates are quite high for the electronic versions, which are generally limited to small LANs. CC on diskette is a pain to distribute. Noone has indicated that SCI is a must, but we've had some requests for CC. The best solution might be some library subscriptions to the print products. Meanwhile, we've decided to support some STN centers, since a) a good deal of money, equipment and training have already gone into setting them up, b) they provide access to something like a 150 databases, including CA, BA, Medline, physics and math citation databases, as well as a large variety of other kinds of databases, including chemical structures, crystallography, etc.; 3) CAS is offering 80-85% discounts on search fees for some of the databases, including its own and will work to increase the discounting, 4) other moneys are going into the development of these centers, including money from the German government, 5) STN has been training people in search strategy and these individuals will, in turn, do training in situ, and 6) the STN centers can be contacted by local scientists by any means available, including telephone and snail-mail, to have searches done. ---------------------------- Date: 06-06-93 12:58 PM To: Fedoroff, Nina From: jsl () rockvax ROCKEFELLER EDU
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