Serials
This solicitation and any resultant contract is for subscription services for serials. The subscription agent
(bidder/contractor) is the provider of periodical subscriptions of serials offered at a percentage of subscription list
price.
The Office seeks to establish contracts with multiple qualified contractors for the
provision of serials in all formats, including but not limited to print, CDs/DVDs, electronic journals and
publications, microform, law materials, and back issues.
The Office uses the definition of serials as defined by the Online Dictionary for Library
and Information Science (ODLIS), which are publications in any medium issued under the same title in a
succession of discrete parts, usually numbered (or dated) and appearing at regular or irregular intervals with no
predetermined conclusion. Serial publications include print periodicals and newspapers, electronic magazines and
journals, annuals (reports, yearbooks, etc.), continuing directories, proceedings and transactions, and numbered
monographic series cataloged separately.
Electronic journals, transmitted in digital format that require additional terms and conditions (such as
a license agreement, shrinkwrap or clickwrap agreements, or user authorizations) are permitted only in
accordance with the LICENSING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR ELECTRONIC JOURNALS and with
all other terms and conditions of the bid. Electronic Online Databases as defined below are EXCLUDED
from this contract.
