A complete and integrated suite of bibliographic databases of education and training periodicals from the three principal producing English-language agencies. ERIC is produced by the Education Resources Information Center from the US Department of Education. British Education Index is produced by the BEI office within Leeds University and Australian Education Index is produced by the Australian Council for Educational Research.
Content description
The collection is available on the DataStarWeb platform which has been optimised for the UK Academic Community. These databases can be combined seamlessly with other subject databases on the DataStarWeb platform, particularly those in the health arena which offers strong possibilities for subjects such as psychology.
For more information on each suite of bibliographic databases of education and training periodicals, please see:
Australian Education Index: http://ds.datastarweb.com/ds/products/datastar/sheets/auei.htm
British Education Index: http://ds.datastarweb.com/ds/products/datastar/sheets/brei.htm
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Database: http://ds.datastarweb.com/ds/products/datastar/sheets/eric.htm
Main subject areas
The core education databases are suitable for Education and general academic use. Three hundred additional databases covering a wide variety of subject areas are available to place within the interface
Academic level
Undergraduate, Post-Graduate, PGCE and the general academic environment.
Date range
Australian Education Index: 1977 to date
British Education Index: 1975 to date
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Database: 1966 to June 2004; July 2005 to date
Updates
All three databases are updated monthly.
Publisher's selection policy
The details of content chosen for each database is provided within each database datasheet available at:
Australian Education Index: http://ds.datastarweb.com/ds/products/datastar/sheets/auei.htm
British Education Index: http://ds.datastarweb.com/ds/products/datastar/sheets/brei.htm
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Database: http://ds.datastarweb.com/ds/products/datastar/sheets/eric.htm
Additional content
Three hundred databases are available on the Dialog DataStar platform. These cover a wide variety of databases in many subject areas. All can be viewed at: http://library.dialog.com/datasheets. Dialog are happy to advise on databases for particular subject areas. Dialog will only show users the databases institutions have chosen on subscription and can group the databases into subject tabs for departments.
Cost
Notes
Year 1 runs from 1 August 2009 - 31 July 2010.
Year 2 runs from 1 August 2010 - 31 July 2011.
An admin fee of £30 will be charged on all subscription fees over £600.
All prices are exclusive of VAT
How does JISC Banding and Charging work?
Subscription
For details on subscription and licensing terms, please go to the subscription instructions.
The agreement will be for two years, running from 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2011. Institutions can subscribe at any time. The Sub-Licensee may terminate this Agreement on 31st July 2010 by giving JISC Collections sixty days (60) notice to that effect.
For more information on the JISC Model Licence please see the Guide to the JISC Model Licence.
Functionality and standards compliance
Full text linking
The Dialog eLinks Manager is an administrator module allowing institutions to directly control outgoing links to many resources. This can include: electronic full text journals, local print holdings, library catalogues and resolvers. All common industry standards are supported: OpenURL, SFX, MetaLib. XML output is to be released shortly.
Federated searching
All Dialog DataStar databases are available though the SOAP api.
SOAP api is the next generation of web services and is more reliable and powerful than Z39.50.
Please see: http://datastarapi.dialog.com.
MARC records
Not applicable.
Metadata standards
All databases support individual thesauri where available.
Search options
All databases can be searched individually or across databases. Some search features:
- Saved Search
- Email Alerts
- On screen limits
- "Repeat" in another database
- "Remove duplicates"
- "Split" sets out
- Deliver results by email
- Delete individual or whole set histories
- Limit by date
- Choice of searching from any database field(s), allowing searching by journal name, author, etc.
- Browsing of thesauri terms
- Access to subsets such as journals and publication types
- Individual user options including highlighting of terms
- Easy navigation
- Email tracker tool for all alerts and deliveries including ability to re-send
There is also online help for users and administrators at: http://resource.dialog.com.
Post-search options
- Choice of output styles or custom output, including choice of fields
- Direct export to Refman, ProCite, EndNote
- Output in .pdf with automatic title page and hyperlinked table of contents
- Output in .rtf for MS Word
- Output in tagged format
- Output to 'WebCharts' for MS Excel
- Output in XML shortly
- Choice of delivery format in email alerts, including .pdf, .rtf, and shortly .ris for Refman, ProCite, EndNote.
- Ability to set copyright clearance for wider distribution
- Sorting of results sets prior to output
Usage statistics
Usage statistics are provided within the support site: http://resource.dialog.com. They include number of logins, database searches and document views defined by the admin username, so they are anonymous. Currently investigating COUNTER.
Authentication
Authentication via the UK Access Management Federation will be available from 2010. Currently, authentication is via Athens.
Personalisation of the online resource
- Number of titles displayed
- Ability to switch search options such as US/UK spelling and plurals
- Default keyword highlight colour
- Default document display format
- Email alerts
- Saved Searches
Accessibility
Please see: http://support.dialog.com/accessibility/
The user is able to customise their interface to improve visibility.
Library support information