Readex ETC: Enhancements, Training and Content

An exclusive program for select Readex customers
Beyond digital collections of exceptional value and power, Readex now presents select institutions with an array of exclusive benefits. In addition to covering online access and storage support, Readex provides an ongoing, multifaceted program of Enhancements, Training and Content (or ETC). This unique program features the following benefits:

Ongoing Enhancements
The highly praised interface that is a hallmark of Readex digital editions is continually updated and upgraded. Institutions enjoying Readex ETC benefits will receive every new update and upgrade upon release. Recent enhancements include additional newspaper document limiters: cartoons and illustrations in 2009 and maps and front-page articles in 2008. Prior enhancements include PDF download upgrades, cross-collection searching, integration of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set thesaurus, hit-term highlighting, OpenURLs and federated searching.

Ongoing Training
In addition to a regular schedule of in-depth Webinars—interactive training sessions transmitted over the Web—Readex offers institutions participating in the ETC program the opportunity to request customized Webinars for its staff, faculty and students. This training, led by recognized Readex experts, may include an exploration of the content, features and functionality of Readex digital collections; suggestions for bibliographic instruction; real-life examples of classroom use; hands-on search opportunities; or other elements specific to an specific institution’s needs. When an institution’s requirements are particularly extensive, an on-site training visit from Readex experts may be requested.

Ongoing Content
Readex continually seeks to identify, locate and digitize previously unavailable books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, maps and other materials to increase the comprehensiveness of our digital collections. In 2009, all institutions that have acquired one or more series of Early American Newspapers received additional issues from ten newspapers, based on series acquired.

Also in 2009, institutions with Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996 received more than 50 corresponding Annexes. Unlike the Daily Reports themselves and their Supplements, these valuable Annexes to Part 1 (MEA/NES)—acquired under special agreement with the Library of Congress—were never available through the Federal Depository Library Program. And institutions with the Serial Set now have access to 16 additional issues of the House and Senate Journals—all issues from 1953 through 1960.

Previously added content includes 50,000 cartographic records to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set; more than 300 rare broadsides and pieces of ephemera to American Broadsides and Ephemera; and more than 230 recently identified books, pamphlets and broadsides—unavailable when microform editions were published—to Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800.