JISC Collections

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JISC Collections

• Lorraine Estelle
• 5th December 2006 Water UK
• London

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JISC Collections what we do?

• JISC Collections is the recently established
  mutual trading company of the JISC
• Its team has been responsible for managing
  relationships with publishers and content
  providers on behalf of the UK Further and Higher
  Education communities and for negotiating many
  ground-breaking agreements resulting in benefits
  for the community it serves

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Our mission

• The demand and expectations for online resources
  to support education and research is developing
  and evolving
• Our aim is to be at the forefront of these
  developments providing quality assured and
  value for money journals, e-books, primary
  research materials and datasets and other online
  materials that support the academic community

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JISC Model Licences

• The basis of all our agreements with publishers
  is the JISC Model Licence and the NESLi2 Model
  Licence
• But, increasingly we find the provisions in the
  models licence do not always meet the diverse
  needs of our user community

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New Challenges!

• Small faculties in large institutions
• Consortium courses
• Access to teachers in FE colleges
• Overseas campus
• Research in spin out companies
• Partner organisations

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Pressure from the top!

• Academic libraries are under pressure to provide
  access to wider groups of people
• Librarians when complying with the terms of
  Licence provisions are often seen as obstructive
• VCs are not patient
• If quality assured resources are not available
  staff and students will use other material the
  libraries will be sidelined

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Workshops with librarians

• In November JISC Collections facilitated
  workshops in London and Edinburgh with the user
  community to find out more and to find out how
  JISC Collections can work towards meeting the
  needs of the community
• Over 100 delegates attended the workshops,
  representing university libraries across the UK

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Forward looking/forward thinking

• The workshops did not focus on the detail of the
  Model Licence
• The workshops focused on strategic issues, which
  JISC Collections can address
• The delegates were engaged and focused on the
  practical and achievable

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Academic Libraries Top five priorities

• The delegates identified the top five priorities
  regarding licences for online resources
• The objective is not to solve the problems today
• The objective is to hear from you, about how we
  can best work with the publishing community to
  address the priorities

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Priority 1

• JISC Collections to provide its community with
  Licence Agreements in a machine readable format
  ready for Electronic Resource Management Systems
• We need permissions from publishers to provide
  the Licence Agreements in this format

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Priority 2

• Cost neutral amendments to the Model Licence, to
  include remote access for
• Retired members of staff
• People working for the benefit of the HEis but
  not employed by the HEis
• FE tutors teaching HE students
• NHS lecturers teaching HE students

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Priority 3

• Cost positive bolt-ons for defined user
  groups
• Partner organisations in the UK
• Partner organisation overseas
• Commercial spin-offs (SMEs)
• Continuing professional development short course
  students
• Students and staff on courses delivered by a
  consortium of HEis
• Defined user groups within the NHS

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Priority 4

• Additional pricing models for small numbers
  within and institution
• The principle of site wide access will always our
  main concern
• But we have to recognise, some times this
  prohibits a sale when there is a small faculty in
  a large organisation

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Priority 5

• Agreeing the terminology
• Institutions receive inconsistent interpretation
  of clauses sometimes from the same publisher
• Authorised User is the most common bug-bear

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Thank you for listening!

• Lorraine Estelle
• l.estelle_at_jisc.ac.uk
• http//www.jisc-collections.ac.uk