Amid increasingly tighter budgets across the UK educational sector, the digital archival group purchasing scheme offers a model that collectively benefits participating higher education institutions who acquire content through the scheme. The more individual institutions purchase, the greater the discount to all members that participate, no matter what Jisc band they are in.
Staring with an automatic 20% on all products available, collective participation can drive that discount to 30%.
Seven publishers are offering products on this year’s scheme and each has committed to lowering the cost of their products based on product sales.
- De Gruyter
- East View
- Findmypast (The Social History Archive)
- Irish Newspaper Archives
- JSTOR
- Microform (British Online Archive)
- ProQuest
Of those publishers, one publisher has reached the 30% discount and the catalogue page and pricing in Jisc licence subscriptions manager has been amended to reflect this. With just over one month until the close of the scheme (31 July), we hope sales will increase the discounts offered by other publishers to maximise benefits to our members.
For more information: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/digital-archival-collections-group-purchasing-scheme
