SOW RSC FY21.doc

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Statement of Work I.

Background Information The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library (NAL) requires electronic access for all USDA users and public on-site users to a selection of Royal Society of Chemistry journals.

II.

Requirements

1. The contractor shall provide electronic access via IP authentication over the internet to specified Royal Society of Chemistry journals for use by all USDA employees, contractors, authorized public on-site users, cooperators and volunteers working on behalf of USDA and acting within the scope of their relationship with USDA. All USDA locations worldwide are to be considered authorized premises.

2. In addition to internal use, authorized users have the right to use content of the Royal Society of Chemistry journals for ordinary business, scholarly and educational purposes of the Government, including but not limited to viewing, printing, saving, reusing and disseminating content.

3. The contractor shall make the Royal Society of Chemistry journals accessible 24 hours per day. Authorized users shall be granted access to the Royal Society of Chemistry journals through the IP recognition authentication process without any impediments.

3.

The contractor shall provide the Royal Society of Chemistry journals in accordance with the following terms and conditions:

a. The authorized users shall have the right to use content during the term of the subscription.

b. The contractor shall grant perpetual data rights to the subscribed-to content.

c. Upon request by NAL the contractor shall provide the subscribed-to or purchased content in a mutually agreed-upon electronic medium and format. d. The right to perpetual use of the subscribed-to journal content will survive the termination of the contract for any reason.

4. The contractor shall provide access to the purchased content and the administrative interface without imposing on the subscriber’s users any additional terms and conditions or similar restrictions that are not part of the contract. If the contractor’s system’s technical functionality prevents suppression of such terms and conditions or similar restrictions, the contractor agrees that any language, however construed and presented, is null and void and not binding on the subscriber’s users.

5. The contractor shall provide COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for all users including commonly recognized data elements. Usage statistics shall include the (IP) address of every user and their respective use of the Royal Society of Chemistry journals, by subject area.

III. Schedule of Deliverables

Task 1.

Provide access via the internet to the selected Royal Society of Chemistry journals Upon award

Task 2.

Provide and maintain administrative credentials for access to the institutional administrative interface for the purposes of customization, usage data retrieval and other administrative purposes, as permitted by the system.

Within 5 days of award

Task 3.

1. Provide COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for all users including commonly recognized data elements. 2. Usage statistics shall include the (IP) address of every user and their respective use of the Royal Society of Chemistry journals by subject area.

1. Monthly

2. Annually upon request

Journals:

1. Analyst

2. Analytical Abstracts Database

3. Analytical Methods

4. Biomaterials Science

5. Chemical Communications

6. Chemical Society Reviews

7. Energy & Environmental Science

8. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts

9. Food & Function

10. Green Chemistry

11. Lab on a Chip

12. Nanoscale

13. Natural Product Reports

14. Soft Matter

15. The Merck Index Online Database

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