Jisc, together with Arkivum Ltd, has announced that five of its member universities, Queens University Belfast, Gonville & Caius, UCL, and the universities of Leeds and York, have purchased the Arkivum data archiving service via the Janet Data Archive Framework Agreement which was announced January 14, 2014.
The five universities are the first to purchase the Arkivum service via the framework agreement, which enables fast and cost-effective archiving for research and education.
Under the terms, customers of Jisc's network, Janet, benefit from pre-negotiated, preferential pricing and a fully managed, easy-to-use service, through a single supplier framework. It also allows all qualifying organisations to procure the archive service quickly without the administrative overhead and costs of an EU compliant competitive tender.
