31 January 2019
Having saved participating universities £458,000 over the course of 2 pilots, the Digital archival group purchasing scheme is now in service, welcoming nine publishers onto a multi-year framework. Based on the principle that the more products purchased, the lower the price for those participating, members of the scheme collectively help each other drive down the cost by leveraging the power of group purchasing.
The scheme runs on a yearly basis, closing at the end of each July when final discounts are calculated. This year libraries can choose from 110 primary source digital archival collections automatically discounted at 20% off the list price offered by the following publishers: Brill, British Online Archives, De Gruyter, EBSCO, Irish Newspaper Archives, ProQuest, Public Information Online, Taylor & Francis and Wiley. All products are one-off purchases with no recurrent hosting/platform fees.