eHRAF Renewal 2016-2017

Renewal pricing is now available for eHRAF (the Electronic Human Relations Area Files). There are two separate collections: eHRAF Archaeology and eHRAF World Cultures. These databases are made available to BC ELN partner libraries through a national site license negotiated on behalf of Consortia Canada by COPPUL. All BC COPPUL members are asked to send their responses to BC ELN.

Pricing has remained stable. There is no increase over last year's pricing.

eHRAF announces a revised home page (see http://hraf.yale.edu/) that has new and valuable information about eHRAF (e.g. 30+ online student exercises, etc.). Please note however, that the interfaces for the eHRAF databases have stayed the same. Information for librarians about eHRAF World Cultures and Archaeology is available at http://hraf.yale.edu/resources/library-information/

HRAF's cross-cultural databases - eHRAF Archaeology and eHRAF World Cultures - have each been reviewed as "highly recommended" for undergraduates, researchers, faculty and professionals/practitioners in the October 2015 issue of Choice magazine (see http://hraf.yale.edu/ehraf-databases-rated-highly-recommended-by-choice-magazine/)

The negotiating lead for COPPUL is working on a new licence with the vendor. We will post more information when it is available.