Acquisition of an Alliance licence within the funding programme for nationwide licensing deals / Nomos eLibrary

• Applicant: Dr. Hildegard Schäffler
• Subject Area: Accounting and Finance ; Empirical Social Research ; Principles of Law and Jurisprudence ; Modern and Contemporary History ; Public Law ; Political Science ; Practical Philosophy ; Private Law ; Communication Sciences ; Sociological Theory ; Criminal Law ; Theoretical Philosophy ; Economic Policy, Applied Economics ; Economic Theory
• Term: from 2017 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 325144179

The proposal is submitted within the funding programme for nationwide licensing deals. It covers the purchase of select e-book collections of the publisher Nomos as an Alliance licence. For these resources the publisher handed in offer documents. The negotiations, which were carried out in compliance with the DFG guidelines for purchasing licences, were centrally led by Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The offer refers to granting to participating institutions a non-exclusive and non-transferable perpetual licence to access and use the licensed materials. Eligible for participation in the licence agreement to be concluded are mainly publicly funded academic institutions in Germany. The offer includes the right to archive the contents on servers owned by the participating institutions or third parties authorized by the licencees for the purpose of ensuring permanent availability of the contents. The Nomos e-book collections will become available as a national licence to all authorized institutions in Germany if a defined revenue threshold is reached. Generally, the negotiations were aiming at the improvement of licensing standards and the development and testing of innovative licensing models that may also be reused in other licensing contexts. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek will ensure that the licensed materials will be accessible nation-wide via suitable and convenient information systems.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigator: Dr. Klaus Ceynowa