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BadgerLink Content to Be Expanded

The Department of Administration and the Department of Public Instruction issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for Wisconsin BadgerLink Web Access to Full Text Database Systems and Content on July 15, 2008, and 20 vendors responded on August 27, 2008. Vendors provided responses within five primary categories and six secondary categories.

As previously announced, the Department of Public Instruction intends to negotiate contracts with EBSCO, Gale's LitFinder, TeachingBooks, and Heritage Microfilm's Access NewspaperArchive.

EBSCO will be providing an expanded package of databases which nearly doubles the content currently available. Libraries in Wisconsin will now have access to thirty-two EBSCOhost databases, including many new ones that were previously unavailable on a statewide basis. EBSCO will also provide an expanded newspaper package. The package includes the following:

Academic Search Premier
Alt HealthWatch
Auto Repair Reference Center
Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary School Edition
Book Collection: Nonfiction - Middle School Edition
Book Collection: Nonfiction - High School Edition
Business Source Premier
Consumer Health Complete
Education Research Complete
Educational Administration Abstracts
Encyclopedia of Animals
ERIC
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
GreenFile
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
History Reference Center
Humanities International Complete
LISTA
Literary Reference Center
MAS Ultra - School Edition
MasterFILE Premier
MEDLINE
Middle Search Plus
Military & Government Collection
Newspaper Source Plus
NoveList
NoveList K-8
Primary Search
Professional Development Collection
Regional Business News
Science Reference Center

The above package includes an upgrade to the Premier versions of Academic Search and Business Source; a major newspaper collection (Newspaper Source Plus); the leading reader's advisory service (NoveList and NoveList K-8); all three versions of Book Collection: Nonfiction; two new health databases (Consumer Health Complete and Alt Health Watch); two new education products (Education Research Complete and Educational Administration Abstracts); high school level science and history resources (Science Reference Center and History Reference Center); an auto repair database (Auto Repair Reference Center), and a pair of literary/humanities collections (Literary Reference Center and Humanities International Complete).

(Posted to WISPUBLIB by David Sleasman)

For more information, see "BadgerLink Content to Be Expanded" in Channel Weekly or refer to the BadgerLink website.

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