National Negotiations for Commercial Information

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National Negotiations for Commercial Information

• Alicia Wise
• JISC Collections Manager
• January 27, 2000

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Complicated network
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National negotiations

• Who negotiates for what?
• How is this decided?
• Confusing?

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What do we negotiate about?

• Cost - Models and Price
• Use and Re-use terms
• Licensing
• Partnership
• Authentication
• Standards for Interoperability
• Service levels and Monitoring
• Support and Training

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dreaming of.

• the perfect negotiation.

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Perfect content

• complements the dner
• clearly defined
• unchanging, or well-defined changes
• unbundled choice rather than monoliths
• relevant to UKHE, not leftover from the US

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Perfect cost

• as little as possible, and honestly less than any
  publisher ever thinks.
• free trial period
• based on institutional banding (or other agreed
  UK-based models - suggestions?)
• no artificial inflation
• unbundled paper and digital

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Perfect licensing

• 3 or 5 year terms
• model licence
• digital preservation and perpetual access
• no unreasonable liability
• standard things (e.g. rebate for lost content)
• open access - distance, not concurrent
• reusability

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Perfect delivery

• not trans-Atlantic
• high specification platforms
• good interconnection with JANET
• ATHENS authentication
• integrated with dner
• interfaces

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Perfect support

• train the trainers
• help desk
• printed material - not just fluff
• online help, too
• regional demos
• lots of pr
• informative reports to HEIs and JISC
• enhancement forum

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Perfect partnership

• wonderful communication
• new models
• new products
• new strategies
• new communities