JISC Collections to acquire Content Complete Ltd

JISC Collections, the organisation which manages the acquisition and provision of digital resources for universities and colleges in the UK, has reached an agreement to acquire Content Complete Ltd, the Oxfordshire-based licensing and negotiations company.

Content Complete was established in 2003 by Albert Prior and Paul Harwood with the aim of supporting organisations involved in licensing scholarly online content. The Company provides an outsourced service, representing clients in direct negotiations with publishers on pricing and licensing issues. Content Complete employs seven staff and has a range of clients in the academic, health and corporate sectors.

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The JISC Collections 2009 Annual Conference and AGM

Our annual conference and AGM will be on the 19 November 2009, with the focus on e-books and expectations.

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What future for digital information – order or anarchy? (London, 17th November 2009)

Librarians, information professionals and publishers face major new challenges and opportunities as they meet increasing demand for high-quality digital content. To help them find a way through the digital maze, CILIP has launched a major new conference for all those affected by the impact of this irreversible trend.

The conference programme has been developed by Hazel Woodward, University Librarian and Director of the University Press at Cranfield University, and Lorraine Estelle, Chief Executive Officer of JISC Collections.

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Podcasts: JISC Collections AGM 2008 presentations

In addition to the formal part of our Annual General Meeting, we also include a conference element to this event, which is based around a central key, topical theme. This year the theme was on "Text Mining", which was presented by an expert panel of 4 speakers. Listen to the podcasts or view the slides of these presentations, which we hope you will find useful.

Find out more about the JISC Collections AGM.

JISC Collections

JISC's Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT) will be available from 20th November allowing comparison of ebook platforms:
Ebrary, NetLibrary (OCLC), MyiLibrary, Ebook Library (EBL) and Dawsonera

The new site at: http://www.jisc-adat.com/adat

JIBS and JISC Collections Workshop - Discovering eprints: finding needles in the haystack?

JIBS and JISC Collections will jointly host this one day conference aimed primarily at library and information practitioners within the higher and further education sectors but anyone interested in this topic is welcome to attend.

There is a great deal of effort underway in the UK and internationally to make research outputs more easily accessible via both institutional and subject-based repositories. A question which researchers frequently ask about eprints is, 'How are my papers going to be found?' We are presenting a range of discovery tools: both freely available and commercially produced; well-established and at the project stage. We aim to highlight the issues to be addressed for those creating and using repository discovery tools. This workshop should provide library and information professionals with a greater understanding of the range of tools available and their benefits and shortcomings.

The workshop is FREE to members of institutions that are JIBS members and £50 to non members. This event will take place on Wednesday 12th September at European Research Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT.

Further details can be found at http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/eprints_workshop.

Frequently Answered Questions on subscribing, renewing JISC Collections licence agreements and invoicing

This FAQ section is intended to answer the common queries regarding the subscription process, renewals of existing agreements and invoicing.

Once an institution has submitted a Sub-Licence Agreement, the JISC Collections Helpdesk can normally invoice within 1 day of receipt of the licence. The JISC Collections Helpdesk are able to generate invoices for institutions at any time, even part way through a subscription period.

The JISC Collections cannot raise an invoice until they have received signed copies of the Sub-Licence Agreement. However they can raise a pre-payment invoice if institutions email or fax them a copy of the Sub-Licence Agreement, provided this is followed with a signed copy in the post. This can be particularly useful at this busy time of year and when institutions want to pre-pay before the end of the financial year.

Where a JISC Collections agreement will not be renewed, the JISC Collections will not be able to raise new invoices once that current agreement has come to an end. In those cases existing subscribing institutions will be contacted to notify them that the respective agreement will not be renewed.

If you have any further queries, please contact the JISC Collections Helpdesk at subscriptions@jisc.ac.uk or on 01235 857 734.

Trialing and testing Journal Business Models: final report is now available

In 2004 JISC commissioned a study of online journal business models. This was undertaken by Rightscom in collaboration with Information Power and the final report was published in April 2005. Following the publication of the report, JISC decided to try and test two of the models addressed in the Report. These were:

• PPV Converting to Subscriptions (PPV)

• Core Plus Peripheral (Core+)


JISC commissioned Content Complete Ltd (CCL) to find possible participants from the publishing and library communities and coordinate the testing of the models by way of trials, and these took place during 2006. The trials involved 5 publishers and ten university libraries. Two of the trials addressed variations of the original Core Plus Peripheral model and the three other trials addressed variations of the PPV Converting to Subscription. The report based on Content Complete's Ltd's main findings and recommendations to be made is now available.

Further details can be found here.

New telephone numbers for JISC Collections

Please note that our telephone numbers have now changed. The main office telephone number is now
+44 (0)20 3006 6000. To find out the new telephone numbers for each member of staff, please see the Collections Team section on our web site.

Further details are available here.

Your licensing queries answered

JISC Collections has a plan of work to deal specifically with the non-standard licence issues associated with partner institutions, overseas campuses, franchised courses, etc. Meanwhile if your institution is trying to work through these issues, JISC Collections will help where it can. Please feel free to contact Liam Earney or Lorraine Estelle with your queries.

Further details are available here