Hi Leigh The Electronic Resources Australia (ERA) website has been left up by the National Library - in case any other organisation wanted to try and resurrect this program. http://www.nla.gov.au/content/electronic-resources-australia
The Council of Australian University Librarians manage the university program: CAUL Electronic Information Resources Consortium (CEIRC) http://www.caul.edu.au/caul-programs/ceirc Cheers, Pru Pru Mitchell [email protected] > On 7 Nov 2014, at 9:38 am, Leigh Blackall <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there commentary or links documenting the attempt? It seems to me to be > something that Open Universities Australia, or Universities Australia > would/should attempt.. more so than NLA... > >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: >> I say again: the NLA has tried, and will no doubt try again next time they >> have to renegotiate... >> >>>> On Thursday, 6 November 2014, Leigh Blackall <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> The thing is, all Australian universities are looking to cut >>>> subscriptions, to save money, looking especially at the least used >>>> subscriptions. If they pooled to the NLA, they'd be preserving those niche >>>> or historic subscriptions, and increasing the diversity of options across >>>> the board. How real is that risk of the publishers restricting the NLA. >>>> Can we use the German model to ensure it doesn't happen? >>>> >>>> On 07/11/2014 8:30 AM, "Juergen Fenn" <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> 2014-11-06 22:10 GMT+01:00 Liam Wyatt <[email protected]>: >>>> > You'll not be surprised to hear that the idea of a single national >>>> > license >>>> > has been proposed before (and especially supported by the smaller / >>>> > non-metropolitan universities. And you'll be equally unsurprised to hear >>>> > that the database companies don't like the idea. >>>> > >>>> > This is why the fact that you can get off-site access to a LOT of >>>> > academic >>>> > database for free via the national library is an open-secret... The >>>> > national >>>> > library is proud of the service but if university libraries stop >>>> > subscribing >>>> > and instead tell their students to go via the NLA, then the database >>>> > companies might start disallowing offsite access in the future. >>>> >>>> I'd just like to point out that we have a similar scheme in Germany >>>> which is widely used and which is not dealt with as an open secret, >>>> but officially. The scientific libraries at Munich, Göttingen, Berlin, >>>> and Frankfurt have taken over the technical and the administrative >>>> side, while the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft provided the money. >>>> Everyone living in Germany may apply for access to the databases >>>> available. >>>> >>>> http://www.nationallizenzen.de >>>> List of databases: http://www.nationallizenzen.de/angebote >>>> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationallizenz#Nationallizenzen_in_Deutschland >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Jürgen. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> >> >> -- >> wittylama.com >> Peace, love & metadata >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > > > -- > -- > Leigh Blackall > +61(0)404561009 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
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