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Aim: To increase awareness of, and access to, Parliamentary publications, and to encourage best practice in the procurement, dissemination and use of public information.
About Us
Parliamentary BookshopThe Parliamentary Bookshop is the content suppliers for Public Information Online. The Parliamentary Bookshop is a trading division of the House of Commons and has unparalleled access to documents and information about them.
Dandy Booksellers has been in business since 1992 and specializes in the supply of Parliamentary material.
Dandy is the one stop shop for all UK Official Publications.
We have worked with our library customers to develop a resource which is both comprehensive and easy to use
• Public Information Online is a web-based database of electronic publications from:- UK Parliament - Scottish Parliament - Northern Ireland Assembly - Scottish Government
• All material is available in electronic PDF format• Updated daily on the day of publication• No hidden monthly or yearly fees• Once you have purchased a session you will have
access permanently
What is Public Information Online?
Why Subscribe?
Why Subscribe to PIO?• PIO is simple to use, offers you UNLIMITED ACCESS and saves you money
• Comprehensive electronic Parliamentary resource – used by all major academic libraries in the UK as well as The British Library and National Library of Scotland
“The Benefit of Public Information Online is that it offers a “one-stop-shop” for access to the publications of the Scottish Parliament and Government and the Northern Ireland Assembly as well as the UK Parliament at Westminster. This is why the British Library is subscribing to the product for the use of its patrons. “ – Jennie Grimshaw, Curator, Official Publications, British Library
“I think it's excellent. The improvements are great. I particularly like the Bill tracker and the ability to find associated documents.” – Simon Robinson, University of Leeds
• Ideal companion to House of Commons Parliamentary Papers from Proquest which runs to 2006. PIO starts from 06/07 session onwards
• Updated on the day of publication – no need to wait days for Parliamentary documents
• Know as soon as a document is available with customizable RSS or Email Alerting
• PIO fully supports multi-user access both on and off site via IP address or User name and password
Our Mission
Save Time . . . Save Space . . . Save Money . . .
SAVE TIME
No need to spend time receipting and managing Parliamentary material
SAVE MONEY
Cost of hard copy is 5 times greater per Session than a subscription to PIO
SAVE SPACE
Keep abreast of ALL Parliamentary Papers without having to find shelf space for them
• House of Commons Papers• House of Lords Papers• Command Papers• Bills and Bill Amendments• Explanatory Notes to Bills• Standing and Public Bill Committees• Acts and Explanatory Notes• Amending Statutory Instruments• House of Commons Daily Hansard *• House of Lords Daily Hansard *• House of Commons Weekly
Information Bulletin *
* From 2008-09 session onwards
Westminster Content
All Westminster material from 2006-07 session onwards
• Papers
• Bills and Explanatory Notes
• Policy Memorandums to Bills
• Marshalled Lists
• Accompanying Documents to Bills
• Delegated Powers Memorandums
• Groupings
• Business Bulletins
• Official Report Meeting of Parliament
• Minutes of Proceedings
• Written Answers
• Official Reports of Committee Debates
• Acts and Explanatory Notes
Scottish Parliament Content
All Scottish Parliament material from session 3 onwards (June 07- Present)
• Papers
• Bills
• Explanatory and Financial Memorandums
• Notices of Amendments
• Marshalled Lists
• Groupings
• Committee Reports
• Registers of Member’s Interests
• Acts and Explanatory Notes
• Official Report Hansard
• Official Report Hansard Written Answers
Northern Ireland Assembly Content
All Northern Ireland Assembly material from 2008-09 session onwards
Know what is passing through Parliament on a daily basis
• All Sections updated daily• All material available in
PDF format• Majority of PDFs
available on the day of hard copy publication
• Stored in an SQL database on a dedicated server
Speed & Format
Content can be supplied at the end of a session for you to hold on
your own servers
Thesaurus• Subject Records
PIO uses Parliamentary Information Management Services (PIMS) records which follow the House of Commons Thesaurus. These records are produced by 14 full-time cataloguers at the House of Commons Library in London.
• Over 5000 Subject Categories allows users to narrow down searches into relevant subject areas, including:
Subject Records
Health, Employment, Education,Law, Income Tax
My PIO has been set-up to help you keep completely up to date with the latest additions to PIO
• Saved SearchingCreate your own collection of search results. Access, edit or delete these search results at a later date.
• Email Alerting & RSS FeedsAlerts can be set up by: Parliament, Paper Category, A Particular Bill, Corporate Author
My PIO
Choose the frequency and format of your email alerts
The Public Information Online Bill Tracker allows you to easily follow the progress of a Bill as it goes through Parliament.
• Bills are listed by Parliamentary Session - simply choose the Bill that you want to follow.
• View the documents associated with your Bill.
• Search for keywords.• Order results chronologically,
alphabetically or by type of document. • Save your search results to use at a
later date.• Sign up to RSS or email alerts to stay
completely up to date with new additions to your chosen Bill.
Bill Tracking
Boolean SearchesBoolean searching - Narrows down your search using special terms before your keywords. Can be useful to minimize the number of search results.
Searching
Boolean operators AND (To make sure a keyword is included)
OR (Finds a matching document if either of the terms exist in a document) NOT (To make sure a keyword is not included)
“credit crunch” AND “housing crisis”
Wildcard SearchesPerform single or multiple character wildcard searches.For words where you are unsure of the spelling, use the “?” to replace a character e.g. organi?ation would find organization or organisation.
Wildcard
Use an asterisk for multiple character wildcard searches e.g. research* to find researcher, researching, researches, or researched
Fuzzy SearchesFuzzy search: Use fuzzy searches to find words with similar spellings to your search term. Very useful for alternate spellings and medical terms or words that are tricky to spell. May bring up a very large number of results.
Fuzzy
To do a fuzzy search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a Single word Term.
Search for ortism~ Brings up results for Autism
Proximity searchFind words that are within a specific distance from each other.
To do a proximity search use the tilde (~) symbol at the end of a Phrase.
Proximity
“credit crunch housing"~10 Use to find documents that contain the terms ‘credit crunch’
and ‘housing' within ten words of each other.
Product Development• Welsh Assembly Parliamentary publications will
be added to PIO by the end of 2009.• Format: We aim to add the choice of viewing
documents on PIO in HTML format. Our challenge currently is to find a reliable method of converting PDF documents (created in a variety of different programs with widely different content e.g graphics) into reliable, accurately formatted HTML files.
Product Development
Dandy Booksellers, the one stop shop for all UK official publications, is partnering with Bernan, the leading distributor of official U.S. government and intergovernmental publications, to make Public Information Online available to libraries in North America.
Working Together
Hard copy value of material currently on PIO
Special Introductory Offer
All information currently on PIO across all sessions would cost in excess of $90,000 USD if bought in hard copy!
PIO Annual Subscription
Introductory price - $9000
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Special Introductory Offer PriceSave better than 10% for 1st Year
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PIO can save you money, it’s comprehensive and it’s easy to use.
Don’t just take our word for it -see for yourself with a no obligation free trial!
Please contact [email protected] to register for your free trial
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Feedback
Feedback
301-459-2255 x5711
Bruce SamuelsonDirector, Marketing & Library ServicesBernan4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200Lanham, MD 20706
We would really appreciate any feedback and we would like to be able to ensure PIO becomes a valuable resource to you
and your library users.
Thank you for your interest,
Donna RavenhillDandy Booksellers LtdUnits 3 & 4, 31-33 Priory Park RoadLondon, NW6 7UP
+ 44 (0)20 7624 2993
