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JISC Collections
JISC Collections 11 April 2023 | Presentation to PRATT-SILS MA Summer School | Slide 1
JISC Collections
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JISC Collections
An Introduction to JISC Collections: Who are we and what do we do?
Liam Earney
JISC Collections Team Manager
JISC Collections
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What is the JISC?
What is JISC Collections?
Realising the potential of online resources
JISC Collections licensing activities
Introduction
JISC Collections
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What is the JISC?
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is funded by all of the UK University and College funding bodies
The JISC’s mission is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of Information and Communications Technology to support education and research.
JISC achieves this through the provision of:
– Infrastructure – JISC National Data Centres
– Services – JISC Collections, JISC Legal, Plagiarism Advisory Service, Regional Support Centres
– Leadership – Advocacy on issues such as Open Access, Intellectual Property, Access management
JISC focuses on 8 strategic themes – Network, Access Management, Information Environment, e-Resources, e-Learning, e-Research, e-Administration, Business and Community Engagement
JISC Collections
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What is JISC Collections?
JISC Collections is a JISC service established as a company in 2006
Mission: To support UK research and education by delivering affordable, relevant and sustainable online content
– JISC Collections is responsible for negotiating and managing licences for electronic information resources
– JISC Collections aims to widen accessibility, to save the academic sector time and money, and to improve management of licensing by the sector
Currently responsible for 80+ agreements with over 4,000 subscriptions
Publishers include – Elsevier, the BBC, Cengage Gale, ProQuest CSA, Oxford University Press, Thomson Scientific, Hulton Getty, HW Wilson, Wiley Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Sage Publications, Taylor and Francis
In 2007 savings to the JISC community from JISC Collections activities are estimated at £33.8 million
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Realising the potential of online resources
Working to achieve the JISC’s objectives through the its activities
The JISC Model Licence
– Used with all JISC Collections Agreements
– Allows institutions and their users to get the best value from resources through flexible terms of use that offer stability and security to both users and providers
– Requires compliance with JISC supported Access Management technologies
– Support for OpenURL, accessibility standards, institutional repositories, creation of learning materials etc
The JISC Model licence is updated annually to take account of changes in:
– The business environment – experimenting with new business models
– The scholarly environment – VLE’s, reuse of learning materials
– The information environment – changes in access management technologies, preservation requirements etc
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Realising the potential of online resources
Projects and reports that review the current environment and look to meet future requirements of teaching, learning and research
– national e-books observatory project
– Digital Images in Education – Realising the Vision
Providing tools to support institutional use and acquisition of electronic resources
– Academic Database Assessment Tool
– Online Copyright Activity
Supporting licensing requirements of JISC Projects
– JISC Digitisation Programme
– Reuse of Learning Content
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Licensing activity
What sort of content is JISC Collections responsible for?
Formats
– E-journals through NESLi2
– E-books and Reference works
– A&I and Full Text Databases
– Archives and Backfiles (including e-journals and cultural resources)
– Images, Film and Sound
– Geospatial data
Resources available in all subject areas
Resources cover all academic levels from vocational to research
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What guides our licensing activities?
It’s not just about the price!
Core requirements
– Consultation with our members
– Acceptance of the JISC Model Licence
– Pricing banded according to the public funding of our members
– Use of federated access management (Shibboleth)
Future Challenges
– Need for greater transparency in procurement
– Cross sectoral collaboration
– Institutional partnerships
– Internationalisation
– Exploiting the IPR of institutions
– Content deluge – data and learning materials
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Recent highlights
20th Century Parliamentary Papers – added to the 18 th and 19th Century
NESLi2 Small and Medium Sized Publishers
Knowledge Exchange – transnational procurement with Germany, Netherlands and Denmark
Acquisition of Journal Archives
– ACS
– Brill Academic Publishers
– Periodicals Archive Online
– Taylor and Francis Geography Archive
JISC Collections for Schools
JISC Collections and Museum Libraries
JISC Collections
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Thank you
THANK YOU
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT:
WWW.JISC-COLLECTIONS.AC.UK
LIAM EARNEY