Electronic Site Licence Initiative Research Articles

Site License Initiatives in the United Kingdom: The PSLI and NESLI Experience

This article examines the development of site licensing within the United Kingdom higher education community. In particular, it looks at haw the pressure to make better use of dwindling fiscal resources led to the conclusion that information technology and its exploitation was necessary in order to create an effective library service. These conclusions, reached in the Follett Report of 1993, led to the establishment of a Pilot Site License Initiative and then a National Electronic Site License Initiative. The focus of this article is these initiatives and the issues they faced, which included off-site access, definition of a site and perhaps mostimportantly, the unbundling of print and electronic journals.

Preserving perpetual access to electronic journals: A Korean consortial approach

This study describes the key findings of the Korean Electronic Site License Initiative (KESLI), established by the National Digital Science Library to develop a digital archive of electronic journals in Korea. Research and relevant activities included developing a system architecture, suggesting journal selection criteria and publisher selection criteria, choosing a set of metadata elements, and addressing stakeholders' concerns. Recommendations for further tasks have been made in order to have the system fully operating by December 2007.

Korean Electronic Site License Initiative: archiving of electronic journals

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to present a progress report on the building of a digital archive of electronic journals by the Korean Electronic Site License Initiative (KESLI) of the National Digital Science Library in Korea.Design/methodology/approachThe research involves identifying a system architecture, testing its prototype, deciding journal selection criteria and priority publisher selection criteria, and defining metadata sets.FindingsThe paper finds that production system and archiving system models are being implemented and tested. Implementation of the delivery system module is in progress. Preservation strategies will be identified.Practical implicationsThe KESLI electronic journal digital archive project is proceeding toward completion of its tasks by the end of 2007.Originality/valueThe observations and lessons in the paper provide insights into building a digital archive of electronic journals that can be used as a basis for building similar digital archives in other countries.

E‐journals in Korea: the electronic site licence initiative

PurposeIn contrast to paper journal acquisitions, libraries in Korea have obtained collective bargaining power in purchasing electronic journals by forming a strong consortium named the Korea Electronic Site License Initiative (KESLI). KESLI is an epoch‐making programme developed in Korea as an attempt to greatly expand the availability of foreign scholarly information by consortia‐based purchasing of site licences of electronic journals from publishers and information providers. KESLI operates under the National Digital Science Library (NDSL) project, the purpose of which is to build a national digital library providing a one‐click total gateway to foreign scholarly information. This paper aims to describe KESLI and examine its significance for scholarly libraries in Korea.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a descriptive analysis of KESLI.FindingsThe paper finds that some 400 KESLI members as of the end of June 2005 have voluntarily formed as many sub‐consortia by publishers as they wish to join, thus enhancing the use levels of scholarly information to six times higher on average than before. NDSL services, launched on 16 May 2001, enable patrons from KESLI member institutions to download, at a single interface from their desktops, all the licensed electronic journals provided by various publishers/vendors.Originality/valueThis paper's description of KESLI may allow further analysis of the value of collective site licensing for electronic journals and help other potential consortia to develop their own licensing system.

Simplifying serials sourcing

PurposeTo describe work by the Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU) based at Loughborough University to support decision making by managers in academic information and library services in the UK in the realm of providing access to scholarly information through serials.Design/methodology/approachA model was built against which to assess a series of propositions, or “deals”, from different publishers for electronic journals collections through the National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (NESLI). NESLI represented a fusion of the quantitative analysis of empirical data with the subjective assessment of a range of serials management factors and drew on the expertise and experience of LISU's team.FindingsThe results informed negotiations between NESLI and publishers and revealed useful insights into the cooperative acquisition of electronic journals. Particularly noteworthy is the inherent difficulty in purchasing electronic journals cooperatively, as the larger institutions involved usually were able to make the most of the various deals offered by publishers.Originality/ValueIllustrates that assessing the value of separate deals is a complex matter involving not only fees, but institutional subject interests, existing serials holdings, user preferences, and available technology.

Licensing E-Journals

This presentation will describe the way in which academic libraries in the United Kingdom (UK) are licensing and accessing electronic journals (e-journals). This process is being facilitated by the higher and further education (HE and FE) funding councils through the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC). The presentation will begin by setting the context for national e-journal licensing and explain the wider vision of the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER). It will then go on to describe the achievements of the National Electronic Site License (NESLI) initiative and examine some of the future developments currently under consideration.

NESLI MARC Records

Summary This article concerns an experiment in producing US-MARC records for e-journals within the UK's National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (NESLI). This involved working with an aggregator, Swets Blackwell, to produce sample records that were made available for comment. Some other related developments are also mentioned.

Library Consortia in the Electronic Age

The organization of libraries into consortia is a very recent development. Instead of cooperation affecting services such as interlending and document supply, consortia are concerned with such activities as the acquisition of journals, mainly in electronic form, in order to secure lower prices and/or more favourable licensing terms. Other benefits are that they can solve problems as they arise, and also help to raise the profile of libraries. Consortia come in various sizes and organizational structures. A multinational consortium is the eIFL, funded by the Open Society Institute. Relationships with publishers have had problems of discounts and licensing terms, some of which remain to be resolved. In the UK, the National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (NESLI), which is managed by the JISC Journals Working Group, has negotiated some good deals; it is self-financing, and institutions can opt in or out of any particular deal. Expectations have not always been realized, and there is much more that can still be done to increase journal use and make savings, but undoubtedly much has been achieved. Consortia offer libraries and users a better future.

The Electronic Site Licence Initiative in Korea (KESLI)

韓国の図書館は韓国電子サイトライセンスイニシアチブ（Korean Electronic Site License Initiative, KESLI）と名付けられた強力なコンソーシアムを構成することによって，冊子体ジャーナルの収集活動とは異なる，電子ジャーナル購入の団体交渉の力を持つに至った。KESLIは，急速に発展した電子ジャーナルのサイトライセンスを，コンソーシアムベースで出版社や情報プロバイダから購入することにより，外国の学術情報の流入を拡大しようという試みとして韓国で開発された画期的なプログラムである。2001年10月末現在，合計246のメンバーが，購入したい出版社の数と同じ数のサブ・コンソーシアムを自主的に形成し，その結果学術情報の使用レベルはKESLI以前と比較すると平均で6倍も高まった。KESLIは国家デジタル科学図書館（National Digital Science Library, NDSL）プロジェクトの下で遂行されており，このプロジェクトの目的は外国の学術情報へのワン・クリック総合ゲートウェイ・サービスを提供する国家的なデジタル図書館を作ることである。2001年5月16日に開始されたNDSLサービスにより，KESLI参加機関の利用者は，様々な出版社やベンダーから提供されるライセンス処理済みの電子ジャーナルを，自らのデスクトップから単一のインタフェースでダウンロードできる。

NESLI-Gathering Momentum

The National Electronic Site License Initiative (NESLI) is an initiative funded and supported by the UK higher and further education councils to promote the widespread delivery and use of e-journals. Day-to-day activities are undertaken by the Managing Agent and include: negotiating deals with publishers; handling subscriptions; providing a single interface for access; and encouraging the use of the NESLI Model License. Deals from publishers are communicated electronically to designated representatives within the community and libraries make their own decisions on whether to accept an offer. Deals with twelve publishers are currently available with many more in the pipeline.

NESLI: an agent for change or changing the agent?

The UK higher education community’s National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (NESLI) is an attempt to encourage the widespread usage of electronic journals as replacements for print. Although this is to a large extent about reducing the financial barriers to the take‐up of electronic journals, another firm aim is to further integrate provision of electronic journals with the full range of electronic services offered to the academic community. This paper examines the origins of the initiative, the Managing Agent’s functions, and the results of the initiative so far. It goes on to consider the viability of the NESLI model and possible future roles for subscription agents in the electronic world.

NESLI: a successful national consortium

The National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (NESLI) is an attempt to hasten the replacement of printed journals with their electronic equivalents in UK higher education. Effectively a national consortium – NESLI – aims to achieve attractive pricing models for electronic content. However, there is also a strong desire to ensure the interoperability of the various electronic services available to the academic and research community. As such, NESLI is part of the Joint Information Systems Committee’s (JISC) Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER). This paper discusses the background to the initiative, its aims and objectives, the role of the Managing Agent and what has been achieved to date, as well as the plans for the immediate future. It goes on to consider the possible implications for the world outside of UK higher education, the lessons learned so far, and the viability of the NESLI model.

NESLI - The National Electronic Site Licence Initiative……Creating a Bit of a Disturbance

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.

NESLI — The National Electronic Site Licence Initiative

The National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (NESLI) aims to promote the widespread delivery and use of electronic journals in the UK Higher Education and research community. The initiative has been established by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils. This article provides some background and reports on the significant progress made thus far.