Knowledge Exchange Licensing Tender

The Knowledge Exchange Multinational Licensing Tender is a joint initiative of the Knowledge Exchange partners to provide a route to market for publishers that have offered a successful proposal.

Information for Research and Higher Education Institutions from the four Knowledge Exchange Partner Communities:
 

Publicly financed Higher Education and Research institutions now have the opportunity to opt-in to the following proposals at conditions negotiated within the multinational framework of the tender process.

Among the five offers listed below, only those with framework agreements signed by the publisher are shown with active links. The others will follow.

• TheScientificWorldJournal: a hybrid open-access / fee-based online journal in the life sciences

• Multi-Science Journal: an aggregator of 14 engineering journals

• BioOne: an aggregation of bioscience research journals run by a non-profit consortia

• SWETS / ALPSP: a collection of 543 journals from 36 diverse publishers, enabling small and medium-sized publishers to sell effectively to consortia and other library customers by packaging their journals in a single collection with a single umbrella license, pricing model and delivery platform

• Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks: a package of e-book offers from these two recently merged publishers.

Please click on any of the above for more information. Detailed information, including pricing, is available on the password restricted pages of the participating consortia web pages.

Information for Publishers

Through the recently completed Licensing Tender, Knowledge Exchange provides publishers with facilitated access to 190 research universities and large teaching universities, and a further 1500 other affiliated higher education and publicly funded research institutions in the four partner countries (Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom).
 
The Knowledge Exchange partners are currently supporting successful bidders in the following ways:

• Offering the bids to the respective institutions across the four Knowledge Exchange partner counties;

• Endorsing and promoting the bids to the libraries;

• Providing a single point for contact for publishers resulting in better efficiency and reduced administrative costs for bidders;

• Providing central evaluation of contracts by legal experts, which will give libraries the assurance of a sound contract and encourage take-up of the offers;

• Providing further efficiencies in administration costs, for example by the management of a single payment by Knowledge Exchange partners, if applicable

For more information on the offers, click on the names of publishers above.

For more background on the license tender click here.