SPECIAL NOTICE
76 -- Electronic Access to ASA-CSSA-SSSA Electronic Journals
- Notice Date
- 11/8/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 511120
— Periodical Publishers
- Contracting Office
- Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Acquisition and Property Division, Acqusition Branch (DC), 1280 Maryland Avenue, SW, Suite 580C, Washington, District of Columbia, 20024-2142
- ZIP Code
- 20024-2142
- Solicitation Number
- AG-3K06-S-12-TH001
- Archive Date
- 12/3/2011
- Point of Contact
- Travis Heller, Phone: 301-504-1713
- E-Mail Address
-
travis.heller@ars.usda.gov
(travis.heller@ars.usda.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library (NAL) intends to award a contract to the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), in Fitchburg, WI, to provide electronic access via the internet for all USDA users for selected ASA-CSSA-SSSA journals. The three societies share a journal publication program. NAL requires electronic access via the internet to ASA-CSSA-SSSA journals for use by all USDA employees, authorized public on-site users cooperators and volunteers working on behalf of USDA and acting within the scope of their relationship with USDA. Access should include perpetual data rights to the content that is made available to USDA during the performance period. The contractor shall provide, upon termination of the contract and upon a request from USDA, all subscribed-to purchased content in a mutually agreed-upon non-proprietary format. The National Agricultural Library (NAL) is mandated (7 U.S.C. 3101) to serve as the primary agricultural information resource of the United States. One of its functions in that role is the acquisition of information in all aspects of agriculture and allied sciences. In support of this function, the NAL acquires journal publications in electronic format from publishers and makes the journals accessible to USDA employees and library patrons via the internet. In keeping with its charge to collect agricultural and related information, it seeks to maintain a collection of publications in various formats from a variety of publishers and sources. There is no source but the ASA-CSSA-SSSA for the electronic content of the subscribed publications. ASA-CSSA-SSSA does not offer the perpetual rights to any other company for resale, nor does the ASA-CSSA-SSSA sell the full content of its electronic publications to others for resale. The ASA-CSSA-SSSA offers its electronic publications from their website via IP recognition, or in a deliverable electronic format and medium that may be loaded elsewhere. Resellers of ASA-CSSA-SSSA publications are available, but none offers the perpetual rights to the publications. Only the ASA-CSSA-SSSA is capable of supplying the previously subscribed content in an electronic format and medium that would be suitable for loading on NAL's servers, and only the ASA-CSSA-SSSA can supply new content in that electronic format and medium as it is published. Anticipated Date of Award: 11/18/2011
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/USDA/ARS/PPBDC/AG-3K06-S-12-TH001/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 10301 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, Maryland, 20705, United States
- Zip Code: 20705
- Zip Code: 20705
- Record
- SN02620340-W 20111110/111108235133-26ea929fea66b332f2a1fc4050c13940 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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