Online journals in higher education: 'success story' continues...

Following national agreements for the provision of
online journals to the higher education community which have brought
savings of some £6m in the last three years, Jisc has renewed Content
Complete Ltd’s contract to act as negotiation agent for NESLi2, the online
journals initiative.

June 2003 marked the beginning of a new phase in the
licensing of scholarly journals for UK higher education when NESLi2 was
established by Jisc and a new, independent company, Content Complete Ltd
(CCL), was appointed as negotiation agent following a competitive tendering
exercise. Since then nearly 5000 journals have been made available to
universities in the UK from 20 major publishers.

That agreement comes to an end in December 2006, but
following a second tender exercise, CCL has once again been selected to
represent the community for the next two years.

Commenting on CCL’s re-appointment, Lorraine
Estelle, CEO of Jisc Collections, said: ‘National agreements
for electronic journals have been a major success story of the last three
years, bringing a wide range of vital scholarly resources to universities
and significant savings to hard-pressed library budgets. I’m delighted
that Content Complete has been successful once again and can build
on their excellent work over three years as our NESLi2 negotiation
agent.'

Albert Prior, Director and co-founder of CCL said:
'We are delighted to have been selected by Jisc to continue in our
role as the NESLi2 negotiation agent. Publishers have been very
interested to participate in NESLi2, and we have been very pleased that
in our discussions with them they have shown a positive approach to
reaching agreements that support the online journals requirements of the
UK HE community.'

For further information , please contact: Albert Prior, Content Complete on 01993
880044 or aprior@contentcomplete.com