Academic publisher Brill has joined a UK pilot project organised by Jisc, the Digital Archival Collections group purchasing pilot, aimed at lowering the costs of purchasing digital archival collections for UK university libraries and increasing access to important resources of primary source material.
Jisc, a non-profit organisation, provides digital services and solutions for higher education in the UK. By organising a group-purchasing pilot, Jisc aims to support Higher Education institutions with a more efficient, coordinated and transparent approach to the acquisition of digital archival collections. The pilot leverages institutions' collective purchasing power to lower costs and will run from mid-March to July 2017. University libraries will be able to pledge for the collections they are most interested in any time between March and mid-July through the Jisc Collections web site. The final cost of each resource will be calculated based on the collective number of pledges from institutions on any resources on offer by each of the participating publishers, resulting in significant savings than offered previously.
Brill is one of three participating publishers.
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