Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) wishes to publicly express its thanks to the University Libraries for assuming management of the Miami University community's access to Mead Data Central's LEXIS / NEXIS database services effective Monday, 21 March 1994. * For several years, access to LEXIS / NEXIS has been provided through the MCIS OpenVMS platform (MiaVX1 and more recently, OCEAN). While Mead Data Central's contract with MCIS has always specified that LEXIS / NEXIS access must be used only for directly course-related research purposes, there has not been an enforcement mechanism in place through MCIS to ensure compliance with the terms of the contract. * Effective 15 March 1994, Mead Data Central cancelled its contract with MCIS, citing our failure to enforce appropriate use of their databases, and terminated MCIS access to LEXIS / NEXIS. * The University Libraries have for some time had a separate contract with Mead Data Central to provide on-site LEXIS / NEXIS database access from the Reference and Document areas of King Library and the Science Library in Hughes Laboratories on the Oxford campus. * MCIS and the University Libraries were in the process of planning the transfer of all LEXIS / NEXIS access to the Libraries at the end of this semester, when MCIS' contract was terminated by Mead last week. * The Libraries agreed, on very short notice, to assume University wide responsibility for access to LEXIS / NEXIS, thus assuring virtually uninterrupted access, albeit through different means. MCIS thanks the University Libraries for stepping in to maintain the Miami University community's access to these important remote database resources. Questions regarding how to access LEXIS / NEXIS through the University Libraries should be directed to: Abbie J. Basile Electronic Services Instruction Librarian University Libraries [log in to unmask] Questions or comments regarding this announcement or past LEXIS / NEXIS access through MCIS should be directed to: John B Harlan Campus Wide Information System (CWIS) Coordinator (& Liaison to the Libraries, and for Networking, UNIX & VMS) Miami Computing & Information Services [log in to unmask] ------------------ Enclosed/Nested Letter Follows ------------------ Return-path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from MIAMIU (MAILER@MIAMIU) by MIAVX1.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU (PMDF V4.2-13 #5413) id <[log in to unmask]>; Tue, 22 Mar 1994 11:40:44 EDT Received: from MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU by MIAMIU (Mailer R2.08) with BSMTP id 5436; Tue, 22 Mar 94 11:42:19 EST Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 11:46:48 -0500 From: John B Harlan <[log in to unmask]> Subject: *** LEXIS/NEXIS changes background *** Sender: MCIS News <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list MCISNEWS <[log in to unmask]> Reply-to: MCIS News <[log in to unmask]> Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Comments: To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, MULEXIS <[log in to unmask]> ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- Sender: MCIS News <[log in to unmask]> Poster: John B Harlan <[log in to unmask]> Subject: *** LEXIS/NEXIS changes background *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) wishes to publicly express its thanks to the University Libraries for assuming management of the Miami University community's access to Mead Data Central's LEXIS / NEXIS database services effective Monday, 21 March 1994. * For several years, access to LEXIS / NEXIS has been provided through the MCIS OpenVMS platform (MiaVX1 and more recently, OCEAN). While Mead Data Central's contract with MCIS has always specified that LEXIS / NEXIS access must be used only for directly course-related research purposes, there has not been an enforcement mechanism in place through MCIS to ensure compliance with the terms of the contract. * Effective 15 March 1994, Mead Data Central cancelled its contract with MCIS, citing our failure to enforce appropriate use of their databases, and terminated MCIS access to LEXIS / NEXIS. * The University Libraries have for some time had a separate contract with Mead Data Central to provide on-site LEXIS / NEXIS database access from the Reference and Document areas of King Library and the Science Library in Hughes Laboratories on the Oxford campus. * MCIS and the University Libraries were in the process of planning the transfer of all LEXIS / NEXIS access to the Libraries at the end of this semester, when MCIS' contract was terminated by Mead last week. * The Libraries agreed, on very short notice, to assume University wide responsibility for access to LEXIS / NEXIS, thus assuring virtually uninterrupted access, albeit through different means. MCIS thanks the University Libraries for stepping in to maintain the Miami University community's access to these important remote database resources. Questions regarding how to access LEXIS / NEXIS through the University Libraries should be directed to: Abbie J. Basile Electronic Services Instruction Librarian University Libraries [log in to unmask] Questions or comments regarding this announcement or past LEXIS / NEXIS access through MCIS should be directed to: John B Harlan Campus Wide Information System (CWIS) Coordinator (& Liaison to the Libraries, and for Networking, UNIX & VMS) Miami Computing & Information Services [log in to unmask] ------------------ Enclosed/Nested Letter Follows ------------------ Return-path: <> Received: from miavx1.acs.muohio.edu by miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (PMDF V4.2-14 #5413) id <[log in to unmask]>; Tue, 22 Mar 1994 10:25:23 EST Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 10:25:23 -0500 (EST) From: PMDF Mail Server <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Undeliverable mail: local delivery failure To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary (ID +tyRo3VrIeV3WEeHgu5DBA)" The message could not be delivered to: Addressee: mcisnews%miamiu Reason: %MAIL-E-LOGLINK, error creating network link to node MIAMIU -SYSTEM-F-NOSUCHNODE, remote node is unknown ------------------ MIME Information follows ------------------ --Boundary (ID +tyRo3VrIeV3WEeHgu5DBA) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII <<<<<< See above "Message Body" >>>>>> --Boundary (ID +tyRo3VrIeV3WEeHgu5DBA) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Received: from miavx1.acs.muohio.edu by miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (PMDF V4.2-14 #5413) id <[log in to unmask]>; Tue, 22 Mar 1994 10:25:11 EST Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 10:25:11 -0500 (EST) From: [log in to unmask] Subject: *** LEXIS/NEXIS changes background *** Sender: John B Harlan <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Reply-to: [log in to unmask] Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> Organization: Miami University's CWIS Headquarters X-VMS-To: in%"mcisnews%miamiu" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Path: miavx1!jbharlan From: [log in to unmask] (John B Harlan) Newsgroups: mu.mcis.news,mu.vax-vms Subject: *** LEXIS/NEXIS changes background *** Message-ID: <1994Mar22.102439.23528@miavx1> Date: 22 Mar 94 10:24:39 -0500 Organization: Miami University News-Moderator: Approval required for posting to mu.mcis.news Lines: 58 Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) wishes to publicly express its thanks to the University Libraries for assuming management of the Miami University community's access to Mead Data Central's LEXIS / NEXIS database services effective Monday, 21 March 1994. * For several years, access to LEXIS / NEXIS has been provided through the MCIS OpenVMS platform (MiaVX1 and more recently, OCEAN). While Mead Data Central's contract with MCIS has always specified that LEXIS / NEXIS access must be used only for directly course-related research purposes, there has not been an enforcement mechanism in place through MCIS to ensure compliance with the terms of the contract. * Effective 15 March 1994, Mead Data Central cancelled its contract with MCIS, citing our failure to enforce appropriate use of their databases, and terminated MCIS access to LEXIS / NEXIS. * The University Libraries have for some time had a separate contract with Mead Data Central to provide on-site LEXIS / NEXIS database access from the Reference and Document areas of King Library and the Science Library in Hughes Laboratories on the Oxford campus. * MCIS and the University Libraries were in the process of planning the transfer of all LEXIS / NEXIS access to the Libraries at the end of this semester, when MCIS' contract was terminated by Mead last week. * The Libraries agreed, on very short notice, to assume University wide responsibility for access to LEXIS / NEXIS, thus assuring virtually uninterrupted access, albeit through different means. MCIS thanks the University Libraries for stepping in to maintain the Miami University community's access to these important remote database resources. Questions regarding how to access LEXIS / NEXIS through the University Libraries should be directed to: Abbie J. Basile Electronic Services Instruction Librarian University Libraries [log in to unmask] Questions or comments regarding this announcement or past LEXIS / NEXIS access through MCIS should be directed to: John B Harlan Campus Wide Information System (CWIS) Coordinator (& Liaison to the Libraries, and for Networking, UNIX & VMS) Miami Computing & Information Services [log in to unmask] -- John B Harlan Campus Wide Information System (CWIS) Coordinator Miami University (Ohio USA) [log in to unmask] --Boundary (ID +tyRo3VrIeV3WEeHgu5DBA)-- ------------------ End of Enclosed/Nested Letter ------------------ John B Harlan Campus Wide Information System (CWIS) Coordinator Miami University (Ohio USA) [log in to unmask] ------------------ End of Enclosed/Nested Letter ------------------ John B Harlan Campus Wide Information System (CWIS) Coordinator Miami University (Ohio USA) [log in to unmask]