Update on RFP for Statewide eResources

Mary Parker On April 7-9, 2014, the nine vendors that responded to the Request for Proposal (RFP) for statewide eresources gave presentations to and responded to Q&A from the Minitex Electronic Information Resources (MEIR) Task Force on the proposed eresources.  The vendors are:

• Encyclopaedia Britannica,
• Cengage/Gale,
• Credo,
• EBSCO,
• Infogroup,
• LearningExpress,
• OCLC,
• ProQuest, and
• Scholastic/Grolier.

The next phase is to review scoring and comments and then begin negotiations with the vendors. The licenses for the eresources included in the Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM) end June 30, 2014. Several of the databases are also available in North Dakota and South Dakota through funding from the North Dakota State Library and Online Dakota Information Network (ODIN) and the South Dakota State Library and South Dakota Library Network (SDLN).  The timeline for this RFP process is October 2013–June 2014.