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| Electronic Information Retrieval Services
Discounts and Pricing Options |
The table below lists the basic discounts off of commercial prices offered by FEDLINK vendors of online databases, CD-ROMs, electronic serials, gateways and document delivery services. Some vendors offer additional discounts for particular products, or special pricing options for subscription packages or commitments to fixed usage levels. In addition, the new FEDLINK BOAs provide the opportunity for vendors to quote deeper discounts for large volume users and to offer specialized access to their electronic information products/services. Contact FEDLINK Network Operations program specialists or LC C&L FEDLINK contract specialists for more information.The link under Service ID connects you to the vendor's entry in the FEDLINK Services Directory, where you will find a description of the vendor's products and services, the vendor's address, phone, and e-mail information, and links to the vendor's website and pricing data, where available. The Services Directory also provides subject-based access to the listing of FEDLINK vendors.
| Service ID | Company - Service | Discount off Commercial |
Additional Discounts and Pricing Options |
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| AI | INFO USA, Inc. | 10% | additional 10% on selected items; volume discount; CD subscription | |
| CA | American Chemical Society - Chemical Abstracts | 0% | ||
| BK | Back Information Services | 7% | up to additional 40% based on volume; subscription pricing | |
| UM | Proquest Information and Learning (UMI) | 13% to 15% | subscription pricing includes Chadwyck Healy products | |
| SA | Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | 10% | subscription pricing | |
| RC | Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) | 10% | CISTI Source Tables 10%-25%;10% discount-direct supply service | |
| CT | Choice Point Business and Government Services | 60% | subscription pricing, minimum subscription required, web access | |
| CO | Columbia University Press | 10% to 20% | volume discount depending on number of agency users | |
| CC | Commerce Clearing House | 20% | subscription pricing | |
| CQ | Congressional Quarterly | 5% | subscription pricing plus print items | |
| CW | CountryWatch.com L.L.C. | 10% | subscription and print items available | |
| RS | CourtExpress.com | 5% | discount on online services | |
| CB | Credit Bureau Services of Texas, dba CRB | 10% | 6.3% to 80% | |
| SM | Cribis Corporation (SkyMinder.com) | 5% | ||
| DG | Database Technologies | 33.3% | *see Choice Point (CT) | |
| DS | Dialog Corporation/DataStar | 8% to 11% | subscription pricing | |
| DI | Dialog Corporation/Dialog | 8% to 11% | subscription pricing and special plans; 15% discount on CD-ROM | |
| MD | Dialog Coproration/Profound | 33.6% | additional 5% to 10% based on volume; subscription pricing | |
| DJ | Dow Jones | 10% to 15% | subscription pricing with annual fee | |
| DU | Dun & Bradstreet | 42.4% to 44.6% | subscription pricing-discount based on annual commitment | |
| EV | East View Publications, Inc. | 10% |
a co-subscription discount of 30% on microfilm publication for subscribers to electronic versions of the same publications. | |
| EC | Economy.com | 15% | 15% on database, 5% on publications | |
| EH | EBSCO Publishing | 15 to 25% | 12 month subscriptions | |
| UE | Engineering Information | 10% to 30% | subscription pricing, print & internet access | |
| ET | Enterprise Training | 10% to 30% | ||
| FV | FACTIVA, a Dow Jones & Reuters Co. | 10% to 30% | subscriptions | |
| FO | Faxon | 10% to 15% | subscription pricing | |
| FR | Federal Research Service | 5% | subscription pricing | |
| FP | FPMI Communications, Inc. | 0% | subscription pricing and multiple copy discounts on print | |
| GR | The Gale Group | 5% to 21% | Discount applies to electronic and print publications. | |
| GS | Global Securities | 20% | subscription pricing | |
| GC | Grant Communications, Inc. | 5% | Introductory discount 10% | |
| EA | Grolier Educational, Inc. | 10% | subscription pricing and print | |
| WI | HW Wilson | 10% | subscription pricing | |
| UI | Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) | 14% | document delivery; contact ISI for cd/web product discount | |
| JN | Jane's Information Group | 10% to 19% | Online/CD subscription, print/michofiche | |
| JR | Juritas | 10% | ||
| KS | Kiplinger Financial Forecasts | 10% to 39% | Discount based on concurrent uses | |
| ML | Lexis-Nexis | 8.8% to 47.6% | average discount of 38.94%/hr subscription pricing | |
| LC | Library Corporation | 0% to 17% | ||
| PS | LRP Publications - Potomac Systems | 5% | CyberFeds and CD-ROM , additional discount for multiple year subscription on print | |
| MU | MCB University Press | 0% | Consorital agreements are encouraged | |
| NE | netLibrary, Inc. | 10% | e-book purchasing | |
| NB | Newsbank | 5% to 30% | subscription pricing | |
| DT | NewsEDGE | 3.5% to 20% | subscription pricing | |
| NR | Northern Light Technology, LLC | 10% | Annual subscriptions with a free zone from 22% and up | |
| OP | ORS Publishing | 25% | subscription available | |
| BR | Ovid Technology | 25% to 30% | subscription pricing and e-journals | |
| PG | Peterson's | 20% | CD subscription; additional multiple copy discounts on CDs; 50% on associated publications | |
| DY | IHS Energy Group, dba Petroleum Information / Dwights | 25% to 30% | CD subscription | |
| AP | Press Association | 3% | subscription pricing | |
| QR | Quality Research Systems | 0% | Reduced per unit price for multiple copies | |
| OR | Questel / Orbit | 7% | subscription pricing and e-journals | |
| QL | Quicklaw America, Inc. | 0% to 49% | subscription pricing | |
| RI | Research Institute of America | 20% to 32% | CD subscription | |
| SH | Reuters New Media, Inc. | 3% | subscription pricing | |
| RB | RR Bowker LLC | 15% | up to an additional 25% based on selected items or volume; subscription pricing | |
| RH | Runzheimer International | 29% to 54% | Discounted print publication | |
| TA | Tax Analysts | 20% to 50% | subscription pricing plus print | |
| CU | Ingenta/Uncover Company | 0% | ||
| UC | United Communications Group | 10% | subscription pricing | |
| WG | WEFA, Inc. | 15% to 40% | subscription pricing | |
| WE | West Group - Westlaw | 0 to 69% online 10% to 15% on CD |
subscription pricing, includes print services formerly available under "WP" and Personnet (PN) service. | |
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