ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 63 | June 2003
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Kinetica Charges Reduced The National Library has revised charges for searching on the Kinetica service from 1 July 2003. Over the past six months, the Kinetica Advisory Committee’s Pricing Working Group has reviewed charges and consulted Australian libraries—recommending to the Committee a new approach. Perhaps the most important change is the adoption of a single discount level for contributors to the National Bibliographic Database. All Australian libraries benefit from the Kinetica service, with around six million searches being conducted per year. To enable resource sharing to succeed on a national scale, it is critical that libraries record their holdings. Discounts for contributors will support the Library’s strategy of enabling more libraries to utilise the service. To this end, there will be a single contributors discount for those contributing records online and through the Batch*Link process. This adjustment will be achieved over a number of years. The first step is an increase in the discount for offline (class B) contributors, of two per cent, commencing on 1 July 2003. For those contributing online, the discount will remain at 30 per cent. Search-only users will continue to be charged the undiscounted price. Site licence users will continue to obtain the discounts they have achieved through their agreement. A major innovation in the new charges is free use of Kinetica in library schools, a change brought about because the National Library believes that training for librarians and library technicians should include the development of skills in searching and use of the Kinetica services. For a full report on the new charges, see: <www.nla.gov.au/kinetica/kcharges.html>. |
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