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The world of cooperative database licensing 

Hello Legislators!

If you click on the ProQuest image below you'll be connected to the statewide database for Washington newspapers and full-text magazines. Usually a person would first enter an ID such as their library card number to prove they are authorized to use this commercial database. However, the database company, Bell and Howell, has given us permission to offer this more open access to help you understand what these products offer to users.

The Washington papers available to you include the Seattle Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Tacoma News Tribune, the Spokane Spokesman Review, and the Vancouver Columbian. Our statewide contract also include access to full text of the most recent 90 days of the New York Times.

At this time nearly all public libraries, all tribal libraries, most K-12 libraries, most four-year academic and two-year community college libraries, and all the state-funded research libraries offer access to their customers to this same database. The costs are subsidized through a federally-funded pilot project. Public libraries pay $.041 / population served for the access. Academic libraries pay $.78 / FTE.

(List price for a public library serving 1,000 people is $2,290 for the full-text magazines only.  Through the statewide license the price is $82 per year for the magazines and Washington newspapers.)

With any questions, or for more information, please contact Jeanne Crisp at the Washington State Library, [email protected],  360-704-5255.

Thank you for your interest!

The world of cooperative database licensing 
in Washington State!

Washington State libraries of all types are developing a cooperative approach to licensing commercial on-line databases.  The Washington State Library serves as a clearinghouse for information and participation, and efforts are guided by a Steering Committee that represents the state's whole library community.  Over 2,000 libraries offer their users the statewide full-text periodical and newspaper package that was licensed for the period October 1998 - December 2000.  About half the cost of this package was subsidized with federal Library Services and Technology Act money, with remaining funds coming from local budgets. 

Additionally, dozens of libraries have used local funds to participate in smaller group purchases for over a dozen additional databases.

Last Updated: 03/13/00