Virginia's Academic Library Consortium

Awards made for VIVA Nursing and Social Sciences RFPs

We are pleased to report that VIVA has made the following awards for the Nursing RFP and the Social Sciences RFP.  

Nursing RFP awards: 

• Awards went to three vendors. The public institutions will subscribe to EBSCO’s CINAHL Complete and OVID’s New England Journal of Medicine. Pricing contracts for opt-in resources were put in place for additional relevant products for EBSCO, OVID, and ProQuest.

Social Sciences RFP awards:

• Awards went to two vendors. The public institutions will subscribe to EBSCO’s SocIndex with Full Text and Political Science Complete as well as ProQuest’s EconLit. Pricing contracts for opt-in resources were put in place for additional relevant products for both EBSCO and ProQuest.

More in-depth product announcements and registration link for a VIVA information session about these awards will be shared soon. The contracts will be posted on the VIVA contracts page as well.

A huge thank you to the two wonderful RFP committees and to JMU Procurement for all their hard work on these awards.

Social Sciences RFP Committee:

Anna Creech, Co-Chair (University of Richmond), Sarah Pritchard (James Madison University), Valerie Glenn (Virginia Commonwealth University, Mary Oberlies (William & Mary), Kory Quirion (Liberty University), Avie Thacker (Blue Ridge Community College), Alicia Wilson-Metzger (Christopher Newport University), Dana Simmers & Shanna Devers (JMU Procurement), Summer Durrant (VIVA)

Nursing and Health Sciences RFP Committee:

Cheri Duncan - Chair (James Madison University), Dr. Pearl Adzei-Stonnes (Virginia State University), Alison Armstrong (Radford University), Carol Creager (Mary Baldwin University), Dan Wilson (University of Virginia), Diane Kearney (Northern Virginia Community College), Dana Simmers & Shanna Devers (JMU Procurement), Summer Durrant (VIVA)