Sca Scotland Forum 210508 Liam Earney: Licences

Developing Licence Models Facilitating wider access to online information

Developing Licence Models Facilitating wider access to online information Liam Earney JISC Collections Team Manager

The existing model
Challenges to the model
Developing, Strengthening and Changing the Model
Knowledge Exchange
Business and Community Engagement
Universal Access Model
Cross Sectoral Collaboration
Reflections…
Questions?
Introduction

The existing model
JISC Collections licenses online resources on behalf of UK Higher and Further Education Institutions and the Research Councils
Emphasis is on widest possible access and widest possible range of educational uses
Licenses e-journals, e-books, bibliographic databases, archival and full text collections, film, images, sound, and any other stuff
The JISC model licence and the agreements based on it rest on two assumptions:
Individual institutions decide whether to participate in any specific agreement
Individual institutions have a direct link with and can take full responsibility for their Authorised Users
JISC Collections Agreements have been designed on the basis of one institution with a defined user community

Challenges to the existing model
Political, Social, Economic, Legal and Technological pressures
The licence as impediment to access and use?
Sectoral and cross-sectoral pressures for access to content and numerous levels:
Transnational, National, Regional consortia
Discipline/Subject based consortia
Sub-Institutional access to niche resources
Schools, NHS, Public Libraries, Colleges, Museums, Local Government
Overseas partner organisations
Knowledge transfer and commercial exploitation of services and IPR
Technology facilitates widespread dissemination and use of content, information, data etc

Developing, changing and strengthening the existing model
Tension in the (Scholarly) Information Structure
There has never been so much content available to users
There has never been so much desire for wider access to that content
Significant part of that content is owned and will continue to be owned by third parties licensing that data to the public sector
What steps can the public sector take to maximise easy, sustainable and long term access to this content?
Working to build upon established models to create an overarching model where ‘universal access’ is the main objective
Recognise that such access may be achieved in steps, working with consortia to pool funding and leverage economies of scale.

The Knowledge Exchange
Partnership between 4 national ICT bodies to license online resources across national borders
UK – JISC
Netherlands – SURFfoundation
Germany – DFG
Denmark – DEFF
Aim of leveraging greater economies of scale in the licensing of online content on behalf of their communities and to develop new and innovative business models
Important to introduce transparency and efficiency to the licensing process
Publishers selected by a joint tender process run by the Knowledge Exchange through the EU competitive tender process
Discounts on pricing are based on levels of take up from each partner country
For further information: www.knowledge-exchange.info

Business and Community Engagement
Government policy and institutional strategy are transforming the external relations of universities:
Partner organisations in the UK and overseas
Small and medium sized enterprises ‘incubated’ by the institution and undertaking commercial research
Previous versions of the model licence weren’t developed for this
JISC Collections updated the definition of an authorised user to allow
access for those staff not employed by an institution but teaching its students
Access for retired members of staff
New framework licences to allow institutions to upgrade existing subscriptions to cover partner organisations in the UK and Overseas for Educational and Commercial Purposes
Recent survey received over 128 responses
Revealed difficulties with institutional implementation of the new licences
Commissioning report to examine the role of JISC Collections in this area

Universal Access Model - Superbands
Weaknesses of the ‘opt-in’ model
uneven access to core resources
dependent on the institutional collections building policy
dependent on the institutional budgets
Impedes leveraging of spending power by institutions to maximise availability of resources
Developing a model that allows both existing and ad-hoc consortia to come together to license collections - Superbands
Like JISC banding, Superbands are based on the public funding of the member organisations
Consortia ‘Superband’ derived from the total public funding of the members of the consortium
Superbands provide a transparent framework for negotiation of consortia agreements
Based on existing JISC Banded pricing for JISC Collections agreements
Currently consulting with SHEDL, CURL and institutions in Wales
Further consultation to come

Cross Sectoral Collaboration
JISC Collections for Schools
Pilot project funded by Becta to extend central licensing and negotiation to schools in England – Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales can participate in agreements
Banding model based on FTE – higher the FTE higher the discount
Model allows individual schools, ad hoc groups of schools, Regional Broadband Consortia, Local Authorities and Devolved Administrations to license resources
London Museum Libraries and Archives Group
Pilot licensing project funded by MLA
Banding model based on number of research staff in Museums
Specially developed version of JISC Model licence to take account of museum requirements
Scottish Library and Information Council
JISC Collections responsible for negotiating extensions to existing SLIC agreements

Reflections and future activities 1
What have we learnt?
Hard work
Aligning different structures, ambitions, goals
How does each sector value different resources?
JISC Model Licence has acted as a sold basis for agreements with publishers across sectors
When has it worked well?
Close working relationship between the partners
Understanding of different needs of different sectors
When all sides have had time
What challenges have we faced?
Similar but not the same – not targeting the same goals
Sectoral politics
Finding metrics that work in different sectors

Reflections and future activities 2
Licences are only as good as the ability to implement them
Access management
Machine readable licences
Institutional understanding of licensing
Licences are only as good as the weakest licence
Standard clauses adopted by all publishers
Paid for content is only part (and a shrinking part) of the overall content mix
Open Access – SCOAP3
Need to make sure that we maximise access to the content we own rights in

Thank you for listening Liam Earney Collections Team Manager Email: [email_address] Telephone: 020 3006 6002

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