Licenses
The educational field has been characterized by a large number of fusions over the past few years. When institutions fuse the license agreements, which each institution had before the fusion, must be gathered together in a new contract for the new institution. Apart from that there will often be a reorganisa-tion of the license work in the newly fused institution.
In the license area 2008 has therefore witnessed a focus on the consolidation of the tasks related to fusions and license agreements. Many adjustments have been made in terms of tackling the tasks in relation to the libraries as well as to the publishers.
The reorganisation of the license invoicing started on 1. January 2008, and invoicing now takes place twice a year: 1. April and 1. October. This has meant clearer information about license agreements and prices for the individual institutions. This solution is still being further developed in order as far as possible to comply with the wishes of the participating libraries.
In the license group for universities and research institutions (LUF) and the license group for educational libraries (LUB) there has been great activity. Four meetings were held during the year for both groups. Simultaneously several working groups have been appointed who on the basis of Action Plan 2007-2009 examine the development and solution of tasks in relation to license agreements. LUF has established a working group looking into new price models for licenses. Another working group has via a questionnaire charted the use of Danish licenses in the libraries. A third working group planned a theme day about e-books for primo 2009. LUB has collected material for an ideas catalogue for marketing which will be published on www.deff.dk.
The research libraries’ purchases of electronic resources through DEFF 2001-2008
The figure shows the development in the turnover in license cooperation from 2001-2008. As it appears the turnover has been steadily increasing and has now passed an annual figure of DKK 128 mil. This increase is expected to continue at the same rate.
Development of number of licenses and institutions
The drop in the graph of institutions is due to fusions taking place in universities and university colleges.
This page forms part of the publication 'Annual report from Denmark’s Electronic Research Library 2008' as chapter 4 of 17
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