Marketing services provider Frontline Global Marketing Services Ltd, UK, has announced the publication of the fourth edition of the Consortium Purchasing Directory, covering 337 library consortia worldwide.
The Consortium Purchasing Directory is projected as a comprehensive guide to the library consortium market. It provides profiles on library consortia that acquire content for their member libraries, or those that have announced that they intend to do so. These are primarily academic, medical, public, school and government libraries. The Directory is devised to assist publishers and vendors and in dealing with the library consortium market. It contains information on some of the key issues of negotiation and provides links to the statements of policy and principle from major library groups around the world and further resources such as licensing models.
The latest edition of the Directory contains regional and country information to aid publishers and vendors negotiate in each region. Each region is described with relation to the library consortium market. The Directory also includes economic, health and education statistics from the OECD and World Bank for further guidance.
