International cooperation
In 2008 DEFF has been involved in a number of international fora. Apart from that the license staff in the secretariat has been in regular contact with predominantly foreign suppliers who normally attend negotiation meetings in Denmark or negotiations in connection with larger conferences abroad. The DEFF secretariat annually negotiates a number of contracts based on a contract portfolio of more than 250 contracts. The contract volume reached over 128 mil. DKK in 2008.
- DEFF presented a paper at BIBSYS’ conference ’The Future of Academic Libraries – the Road Ahead’ in February 2008.
- In April 2008 DEFF participated in the annual conference in UKSG (United Kingdom Serials Group) in Torquay, where apart from inspiration from lectures and workshops, possibilities easily offer themselves for meetings with suppliers and networking.
- In April 2008 DEFF participated in JISC’s annual meeting in Birmingham. As ever the meeting provided a unique opportunity to follow and learn from the activities in the largest and broadest programme for digital instruction and research in Europe.
- At the Nordic level the cooperation on purchasing electronic information has been carried on i.a. at a joint meeting in Sweden in June 2008.
- License work at European level continues to take place i.a. through the organisation ICOLC (International Coalition of Library Consortia). The conferences alternate every six months between Europe and North America, and DEFF participated in October 2008 in the conference in Munich.
- DEFF participated in OCLC’s RLG Programme’s first European meeting in Paris in November 2008.
- DEFF participated in Elsevier’s 6. Nordic Librarian Forum in November 2008 in Helsinki.
- In early December DEFF participated in ’Online Information 2008’ in London Olympia. Apart from network collaboration the purpose of participating in this annual event is solely to stage a large number of meetings with suppliers.
- In December 2008 DEFF participated in the six-monthly meeting for Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) in Washington.
- DEFF supports Open Access publishing via membership of SPARC, just as through membership of COUNTER DEFF works for standardized and comparable registrations of the use of electronic resources. DEFF is moreover involved in the cooperation in Transfer.
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