What is Echo?
The Echo's information content is drawn from newspapers and the Internet.
Echo selectively indexes three major Australian newspapers and provides a searchable index on-line.
Echo also publishes regular issue outlines. These are analyses of newspaper treatment of events, controversies etc. The outlines set out the arguments for and against (as put forward by journalists and commentators) and provide background information on the particular issue.
The issue outlines also contain links to vetted, relevant documents and sites on the World Wide Web.
NOTE on schools' copyright and site-licensing: generally, the Echo material can be copied and distributed throughout the subscribing school. There are no site-licence restrictions, except that all Echo services should be confined to the subscribing school. (However, librarians may give students the school Echo passwords with which to access from home.)
2007 Echo subscriptions for Victorian schools (Non-Victorian schools should e-mail the Echo office)
The cost of a Victorian school subscription to the Echo Education Services site is still $340.00 (including $26.36 GST) per year.
This includes the following basic services:
Access to all issue outlines back to 1995 (these can be printed out and re-copied for distribution within the subscribing school
Access to an automatically-updated search engine with which to generate item listings from the Age, the Australian and the Herald-Sun back to 1996. (The search engine files are updated automatically from the Echo server each week)
2007 Echo subscriptions for Victorian private / corporate, public and municipal libraries
Subscriptions for corporate and public libraries are a base $176.00, with an additional cost of $44.00 per branch library access.
This includes the following basic services:
Access to all issue outlines back to 1995 (these can be printed out and stored within the subscribing library)
Access to indexing databases back to 1996
Ordering: schools may order by fax or mail and will be invoiced. An official school order form, complete with an order number, is required. On receipt of the order form, Echo will send a tax invoice.
All subscription prices include GST
