Content Procurement

Agreements with publishers

We support university, university of applied sciences and university medical centre libraries with content brokerage, open access and research intelligence. Together with UKB and SHB, we negotiate publisher agreements and provide advice, data and analysis on open access and access to scientific information.

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Advantages

Negotiations and contract management

On behalf of UKB and SHB, we negotiate with national and international publishers, draw up contracts (which we also monitor) and handle the financial processing of these agreements.

ConsortiaManager

Access for all participating institutions to the contracts, invoices and terms of use agreed with academic publishers such as Elsevier. All brought together in a single platform.

Data-driven insights

We provide research intelligence based on licence and publication data from all relevant metadata sources. This supports policy, monitoring and strategic decisions regarding academic information and open access.

Expert advice on open access

We advise institutions on open access, both during negotiation processes and at a strategic level. We also promote the dissemination and visibility of Dutch research through open international publication channels.

Support via the Scholarly Article Metadata Hub

Through reports, we make reliable, high-quality metadata on scholarly articles and journals accessible to institutions and consortia. Through reports, we make metadata on scholarly articles and journals accessible to institutions and consortia.

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Stronger together in the scholarly information market

By pooling knowledge, data and expertise with UKB and SHB, we strengthen the position of knowledge institutions in a rapidly changing landscape of (scholarly) information provision, subject-specific information and specialist knowledge. Together, we are in a stronger position in negotiations with publishers, we support evidence-based decision-making and we safeguard public values, such as open access, control over data and copyright.