Return on Investment
Selection Criteria
All selections were based on the following key criteria:
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Cost per use
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Accessibility
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Quantity of content for $
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User experience
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Quality of content for $
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Process and Timeline
Content
ADDITIONS
RESOURCE | DESCRIPTION | REPLACES | RATIONALE |
Premier virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas. |
Oxford Reference Online Premium |
Credo offers a large quantity of high quality content. |
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Easy-to-use résumé building tool with a built-in writing process and automatic formatting. |
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EBSCO: AutoMate |
Reference database with authoritative and up-to-date auto repair and service information on more than 38,000 vehicles. |
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EBSCO: Biography Reference Bank |
A biography database of in-depth profiles from Current Biography and World Authors, the periodical coverage of Biography Index, and specialist content from Junior Authors & Illustrators. |
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EBSCO: Biography Reference Center |
A comprehensive collection of full-text biographies on popular and heavily-researched figures. |
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EBSCO: CINAHL Plus with Full Text |
Premier database of nursing and allied health journals with additional materials that include nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheets, audiovisuals, and continuing education modules. |
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EBSCO: Consumer Reports via MasterFILE Premier |
Popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information. |
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EBSCO: NoveList Plus |
Readers’ advisory resource covering fiction, nonfiction, and audiobook recommendations. |
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Career database that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for résumés, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. Includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video. |
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Testing and education preparation resource. Includes in-depth information on college, graduate, and professional programs, professional training, scholarships, and entrance tests alongside practice tests for entrance exams, certifications, and licensing exams. |
Learning Express |
TERC offers a strong user experience and high quality content. |
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Language learning software with courses in over 70 languages, including English. |
Pronunciator |
Mango offers a strong user experience and high quality content. |
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ProQuest: eLibrary |
General reference collection of periodical and digital media content designed for school curriculum and research support. |
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ProQuest: Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection |
3.5 million digitized pages of historic newspaper content from the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill. |
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ProQuest: History Study Center |
A collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day. |
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Full-text works of poetry, prose and drama, and secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and interviews. Designed with schools and public libraries in mind. |
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ProQuest: Research Companion |
Award-winning, cloud-based information literacy solution that enables educators and librarians to guide students through research projects efficiently. |
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ProQuest: SIRS Discoverer |
Articles, nonfiction books, images, activities, and websites curated for educational relevance, age appropriateness, and readability. Designed specifically for elementary and middle school students. |
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ProQuest: Summon |
Discovery service to increase usage of library resources by offering patrons a contemporary search interface. |
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RENEWALS
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Ebook platform used to host NC LIVE's HomeGrown Ebooks Collection. BiblioBoard delivers all media types, works across desktop and mobile platforms, and offers a modern user experience. |
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CQ Magazine (formerly CQ Weekly) |
News and analysis on how legislation is shaped. Weekly coverage of bills, votes, amendments, committees, and more. |
Reports on issues shaping our world, with in-depth coverage of political and social issues, such as health, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy. |
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Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels. |
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An extensive literature resource collection with articles, critical essays, topic overviews, full-text works, and biographies covering authors, their works, and literary movements. |
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Gale: Science in Context |
Reference content plus magazines, journals, news sources, experiments, and more. Covering earth science, life science, space, technology, mathematics, science history, and biography. |
Investment research center that includes research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and hundreds of ETFs. |
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ProQuest Custom Collection |
Our current ProQuest aggregated collection, which covers general reference, education, entrepreneurship, global regions, library science, natural sciences, news, and numerous health and social science fields. Includes PQ Central, ABI/INFORM, ebrary Academic and Public Library Complete (soon to be Ebook Central), HeritageQuest, and many more databases. For a complete list, see our Frequently Asked Questions below. |
RBdigital (formerly OneClickdigital) |
Audiobook and e-book collection and platform. |
Reference and research tool providing instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. ReferenceUSA makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more. |
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SimplyAnalytics (formerly SimplyMap) |
Web-based mapping application that lets you create professional-quality maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. |
SUBTRACTIONS
RESOURCE | DESCRIPTION | REPLACED BY | RATIONALE |
AccessScience |
Science encyclopedia with video and images. |
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Did not meet cost-per-use criteria. |
D&B Business Browser (formerly OneSource) |
International and US businesses reference resource. |
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Did not meet cost-per-use criteria. |
Gale InfoTrac Newsstand |
Contemporary newspaper content. |
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Significant overlap with PQ Newsstream (current resource). |
LearningExpress Library |
Practice tests and self-paced courses for students & adult learners. ASVAB, GED, GRE, SAT, and resume and cover letter writing courses. |
Gale Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC) |
TERC offers a strong user experience and high quality content. |
Natural Medicines |
Reviews of dietary supplements and complementary and alternative medicine therapies. |
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Similar information available freely online. |
Oxford Reference Online Premium |
Reference titles in core subject areas, including quick reference articles, illustrations, photographs, line diagrams, maps, and tables. |
Credo Reference |
Credo offers a large quantity of high quality content. |
Pronunciator & ProCitizen |
Language learning tool. |
Mango |
Mango offers a strong user experience and high quality content. |
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
My library has its own subscription to one of the newly-added resources. Can I get a refund now that NC LIVE is providing it to the whole consortium?
Can libraries get early access to a resource before it launches on January 1?
Some of these resources are new to me. What opportunities are available for training on the new resources?
- Vendor webinars
- Online hands-on training
- In-person training events
You can always check current instruction offerings at nclive.org/instruction, or sign up for the NC LIVE Listserv to receive announcements about new training opportunities.
How long are the contracts for?
I use EZProxy to enable offsite access to NC LIVE resources. How/when/who will configure my EZProxy to enable these new resources? Will I get MARC records for the new resources?
I understand there are options for the Credo Reference Collection. What are they, and what's the difference?
What specific resources are included under the six-year renewal of NC LIVE's ProQuest Custom Collection?
- ABI/INFORM Collection
- Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection
- African-American Poetry
- American Poetry
- Arts & Humanities Database
- Asian & European Business Collection
- Australia & New Zealand Database
- Biology Database
- Business Market Research Collection
- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database
- Canadian Newsstream
- Career & Technical Education Database
- Computing Database
- Continental Europe Database
- Criminal Justice Database
- East & Central Europe Database
- East & South Asia Database
- ebrary Academic and Public Library Complete (Ebook Central)
- Education Database
- English Poetry
- Entrepreneurship Database
- Environmental Science Collection
- Faber Poetry Library
- Family Health Database
- Health & Medical Collection
- Health Management Database
- HeritageQuest
- India Database
- International Newsstream
- Latin America & Iberia Database
- Library Science Database
- Linguistics Database
- Middle East & Africa Database
- Military Database
- New York Times (*part of US Newsstream collection)
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
- Nursing & Allied Health Database
- Political Science Database
- ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Research Library
- Psychology Database
- Public Health Database
- Religion Database
- Sanborn Maps North Carolina
- Science Database
- SIRS Government Reporter
- SIRS Issues Researcher
- SIRS Knowledge Source Package
- SIRS Renaissance
- Social Science Database
- Sociology Database
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Telecommunications Database
- Turkey Database
- Twentieth Century African-American Poetry
- Twentieth Century American Poetry
- Twentieth Century English Poetry
- U.K. & Ireland Database
- US Newsstream
- Wall Street Journal (*part of ABI/INFORM Collection)
What specific resources have been added to NC LIVE's ProQuest Custom Collection for the six-year contract?
- eLibrary
- Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection
- History Study Center
- ProQuest Learning: Literature
- Research Companion
- SIRS Discoverer
- Summon Discovery Service
Will there be any changes in NC LIVE's perpetual access collections?
NC LIVE will continue to provide perpetual access to the following collections of owned materials:
- ABC-CLIO E-book Collection
- American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
- eBooks on EBSCOhost
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
- HomeGrown Ebooks Collection (hosted on BiblioBoard)
- MyiLibrary
- NC LIVE Video Collection
- RBdigital (Note: Individual libraries add about 1-2 books a month to this collection for use by patrons at any NC LIVE library. Please see our MARC Records for the most up-to-date records.)
For questions on Summon, see our Summon for NC LIVE Libraries page.