Delivering greater savings on online journals
Jisc Collections extends the NESLi2 initiative to include online journal content from small and medium sized publishers
A new initiative, launched today by Jisc Collections, facilitates access for staff and students in universities, colleges and research councils in the UK to a wider range of online journals: NESLi2 SMP.
Jisc Collections is a brand familiar to the university, college and research communities, bringing online information resources from a range of eminent publishers to staff and students in a highly cost-effective way.
NESLi2 is one of the most successful strands of Jisc Collections activity. In 2007 NESLi2 negotiations for online journals generated savings of £3.9 million. Based on the success of these negotiations, Jisc Collections is extending the range of publishers and journal titles covered by the NESLi2 initiative by launching the new initiative – NESLi2 SMP (NESLi2 for Small and Medium sized Publishers).
The NESLi SMP initiative enables institutions to choose a range of journal titles from publishers large and small.
The process began last year, when publishers who were interested in participating in the initiative, were invited to submit proposals. These proposals were required to meet some key licensing requirements such as the use of the NESLi2 Model Licence, COUNTER compliance and to provide demonstrable savings to the UK academic community.
A number of publishers submitted proposals, which were reviewed by a panel of library experts. 15 proposals have been accepted and offers from the following publishers are already available to the UK academic community, which are compliant with the Model NESLi2 Licence: American Accounting Association; Berg Publishers; Duke University Press; Future Drugs Ltd; Future Medicine Publishing; Informa Healthcare; IOS Press; Multi-Science Publishing; Now Publishers Inc; Berkeley Electronic Press (Research Now); Royal Society of Medicine Press; and University of California Press.
As all agreements are based on the NESLi2 Model Licence, the terms and conditions ensures that staff, students and researchers can make the best use of these high quality online journals for education and research. For example, excerpts can be incorporated into traditional teaching and learning materials such as reading lists, course handouts, student assignments, study guides and presentations, as well as Virtual Learning Environments, electronic course packs and learning objects.
Lorraine Estelle, CEO of Jisc Collections, explains how this new initiative will benefit education and research:
“Academics, researchers and students across the arts, humanities, medicine, science, social sciences and technology will find these journals immensely useful. The ability for institutions to access over 400 additional essential journal titles at specially-negotiated rates, coupled with the provisions in the NESLi2 Model Licence, will enable them to maximise the value of their investment. Jisc Collections is delighted to launch the NESLi SMP initiative so that institutions can choose from a range of journal titles from publishers large and small.”
For further information, please go to the NESLi2 website.
Jisc Collections was established as a mutual trading company by the UK further and higher education funding councils in 2006 to negotiate with publishers of online information and other owners of digital content. The range of resources licensed for use by such agreements constitutes a large national collection of online resources for education and research.