Sustaining New Jersey's Competitive Edge
Date: August 2006
To: Library Directors
From: Norma Blake, State Librarian
Re: New Jersey Knowledge Initiative
Time is running out. The New Jersey Knowledge Initiative is not included in the FY2007 budget for the State of New Jersey and may end. This is to inform you of the status of this program and how it may affect your library. I hope you are aware how the NJKI benefits your library, and will discuss this situation with your staff.
Current status: All New Jersey Knowledge Initiative database licenses are presently funded and will continue to be available through June 30, 2007. This includes four major JerseyClicks databases costing $2.25 million for the current contract: ReferenceUSA, Ebsco Academic Search Premier, Ebsco Business Source Premier, and Ebsco Regional Business News. Attached is a helpful list of all the NJKI databases and their specific license expiration dates.
If the NJKI is not funded in the FY2008 state budget, all databases funded by the NJKI will be discontinued at their expiration date. Therefore, I am advising all libraries to consider and plan for this contingency when developing your library's budget for either calendar year 2007 or FY2008. We will work with the Regional Library Cooperatives and VALE to explore negotiation of vendor discounts.
You can help keep these databases. Later this summer, you will begin receiving information about advocacy activities to continue funding the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative. The New Jersey Library Association, your Regional Library Cooperative and VALE have been major contributors to this effort. The State Library coordinated a wide range of advocacy activities and legislative visits this spring. All parties are committed to continue this campaign, but it will not be enough. I urge you to ensure your library's participation in every NJKI advocacy activity.
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Just follow the attached checklist to
- promote the NJKI to your staff, customers, and decision-makers
- help us capture success stories
- respond promptly to NJKI user surveys
- share your advocacy ideas with us
Norma Blake
WHAT I CAN DO TO HELP KEEP NJKI:
Complete the survey for public or academic libraries and urge your colleagues to do so
Do we have yours? Checks the links below to find out:
Gather testimonials from satisfied users and forward to Susan Kaplan at the New Jersey State Library, email: skaplan@njstatelib.org
Make sure that all NJKI resources are branded on your library's Web site giving proper attribution. Download the logo at: http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/NJKI/NJKIlogo_best_copy.jpg
Contact local business leaders. local and state officials in your community to let them know about the NJKI resources available to them. Use the talking point below.
Take advantage of opportunities to connect your user community with the NJKI resources
NJKI Talking Points
What is NJKI? NJKI connects entrepreneurs, small businesses, researchers and students to millions of top science and technology journal articles and key business information. Biotech, high-tech and small business companies throughout the state are partnering with the New Jersey State Library, members of the New Jersey Library Network and the academic community to use the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative.
How does NJKI work? NJKI is designed to spur economic growth and strengthen high-tech initiatives by providing free, unlimited and convenient access to high-end, proprietary resources in the fields of science, medicine, technology and business. This is information not available for free on the Internet or at bookstores. The $6 million, state-funded program is the first of its kind in the nation. $2.25 million of resources went directly to New Jersey's public libraries.
Who benefits from NJKI? Small companies, researchers and entrepreneurs in New Jersey competing globally in the fields of biotechnology, high-tech, and other science- and medical-related industries, colleges and universities statewide, legislative staff and state agencies served by the New Jersey State Library, and the more than 2,000 member libraries of the New Jersey Library Network and the people they serve.
New Jersey Knowledge Initiative Database List
The New Jersey State Library is happy to announce the availability of several new databases through the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative. Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Regional Business News, and ReferenceUSA join the list of statewide JerseyClicks databases currently offered free onsite at public libraries and from home by entering a valid public library card barcode.
- Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) on JerseyClicks: Top scholarly research journals in social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, and medical sciences. Contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.
License period July 1, 2005 - September 30, 2007 - Business Source Premier (Ebsco) on JerseyClicks: Scholarly business journals, trade journals, business magazines, country economic reports, industry reports, and market research reports. Contains full text for 8,341 periodicals and other sources. Includes Regional Business News, comprehensive full text for over 50 regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications).
License period July 1, 2005 - September 30, 2007 - Reference USA on JerseyClicks: Cutting-edge, advanced technology to provide real-time access to the world's most comprehensive databases of 14 million U.S. businesses; 250 million U.S. consumers; 732,000 U.S. physicians, surgeons and dentists; 1.2 million Canadian businesses; and 12 million Canadian consumers. New - Also includes Corp Tech directory.
License period April 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007
The databases listed below are available via: a) walk-in onsite access for the public at 48 academic libraries, b) onsite and remote access for: library staff, faculty, and students of 50 VALE colleges and universities; State Library staff and state agency employees; and selected small biotech and high-tech startup companies (ex. tenants of business incubator campuses):
- Journals@Ovid Lippincott Williams & Wilkins High Impact Collection is a full-text online collection of the 50 highest impact medical journals that support research and patient care in medicine and nursing.
License period August 1, 2005 - September 30, 2007 - Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive Edition (Ebsco) provides doctors, research scientists, students and clinical specialists with access to full text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pre-clinical sciences and the health care system. This database contains full text for nearly 900 journals.
License period July 1, 2005 - September 30, 2007 - MEDLINE (on EbscoHost) is compiled by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and published through Community of Science, Inc. MEDLINE is the world's most comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information. It contains nearly 11 million records from more than 7,300 different publications dating from 1965-present. MEDLINE is updated weekly.
License period July 1, 2005 - September 30, 2007 - Nature and its research and review journals are among the most prestigious research journals published with impact factors rating among the highest reported. Articles from the Nature research and review journals are available in full-text with links from MEDLINE in the following subjects closely linked to important statewide initiatives in research and industry including: biotechnology, cancer, cell biology, drug discovery, genetics, immunology, medicine, molecular cellular biology, neuroscience, and structural biology.
License period April 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007 - Nursing & Allied Health CollectionT: Comprehensive Edition (Ebsco) is a valuable resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. This database contains full text for nearly 400 journals.
License period July 1, 2005 - September 30, 2007 - CINAHLŽ and pre-CINAHLŽ (Ebsco) covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health and full text of nearly 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.
License period July 1, 2005 - September 30, 2007 - Wiley InterScience delivers the full text of 172 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and the full text of select Wiley print books onlineThe journals cover a wide range of topics including: business, chemistry, computer science, earth science, education, literature, law, math, medicine, physics, and psychology. The majority of the titles included have a backfile that extends to 1997-98.
License period July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2007
Last revised 8/11/06
