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Statement of Requirements FY25 Clarivate Renewal Dudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School

1.0 Background/Introduction:

The Dudley Knox Library (DKL) provides access to high quality scholarly resources that strengthen the teaching, learning, and research efforts of Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) students, faculty, and researchers. These resources support the school's mission to provide an excellent defense-focused graduate education to advance the warfighting advantage of the Naval service. Selection is based on relevance to curricula and research interest, the quality of content, and some technical delivery preferences.

Clarivate’s Web of Science (WoS) database and associated platform resources are part of the core set of resources of an academic library and have been an essential and well-used part of the library's electronic content portfolio. These products provide comprehensive discovery functionality and citation analytics of peer-reviewed high-impact journals that are crucial to researchers at NPS. Continued access to the Clarivate platform is essential for supporting research and instruction activities at NPS.

PoP 4/14/25-4/13/26

2.0 Requested Delivery Date: 4/14/2025

3.0 Minimal Technical Requirements/Salient Characteristics:

(If known) Description

Clarivate

Clarivate (Web of Science (WoS) and platform resources) Renewal

The following technical requirements are in place:

· IP-based access Scholarly/peer-reviewed content

· Unlimited, simultaneous user access

· Open URL resolvers to facilitate navigation across resources

· Available on a platform already in use

· Seamless integration with our existing library search and discovery tool

· Intuitive user interface

· Powerful, advanced search capabilities

· Granular level linking to citations, data sets, and other metadata

· Core Collection includes only peer-reviewed, high-impact journals that have been indexed cover-to-cover with a back file going back to 1900

· Funding data from 2008

· The Journal Citation Reports (JCR) – the only place to examine the Journal Impact Factor, the most widely used journal quality indicator in the publishing world

· Highly Cited paper feature

· Unbiased, publisher-independent editorial policies

· Account personalization options

· Compliance with COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) goal of COUNTER is to provide consistent, credible, and comparable usage statistics to help libraries, publishers, and content providers assess the usage of these resources.

NPS Technical POC: Tom Doughty, todought@nps.edu, 831-656-7663 NPS POC for Acceptance of Deliverables:

NPS Financial POC: Bardomina Lopez, bglopez@nps.edu, (831) 656-3745

Delivery Instructions:

Deliveries shall be made to the NPS Warehouse Monday through Friday between the hours of 0700-1130 and 1230-1600 PST. Make sure to include the USG Contract Number on the package and/or packaging slip for ease of reference and processing.

NPS Warehouse 1988 Lake Del Monte Drive -- Building 349 Monterey, CA 93943

Delivery Contact Information:

Warehouse – (831)656-2256 Customer – Tom Doughty/x7663 Office of Contracting and Logistics Management Revised 25 April 2022