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Licensing

Licence subscriptions manager launches today

Our new Licence subscriptions manager service launched today, which is a milestone in transforming our offer to libraries. This new service replaces the catalogue and ‘My Account’ functions of the Jisc Collections website and provides new and improved features to make the process of subscribing and managing your Jisc Collections negotiated agreements easier and faster. […]

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Library Hub Compare Library Hub Discover

Hello Library Hub!

At 10.00 on the morning of Wednesday 31st July 2019, the Library hub discover service will take over from its predecessor Copac and will start providing libraries and their users with the ability to do fast searches using a fresh new interface across the merged catalogues of 110 UK academic and specialist libraries. But that’s just […]

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Communications Licensing

Post-cancellation access rights in Jisc Collections journal agreements: an overview

As the financial climate makes the possibility of journal agreements being cancelled more likely, and the emphasis in those agreements shifts towards paying for publishing services rather than paying for access to content, it is more important than ever to be clear about what your institution would have access to if you decided not to […]

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Communications

New Jisc role for Liam Earney

From 1 August, Liam Earney will be taking up the role of executive director for Jisc’s digital resources directorate and joining the executive leadership team. As the current director for licensing, responsible for both Jisc Collections and CHEST, Liam will continue to have oversight of these key services but will also have overall responsibility for […]

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Nearly time to say … “goodbye Copac and SUNCAT!”

In just over six weeks time, we will retire the Copac and SUNCAT services. Always good to try and catch the attention of the blog reader with an attention-grabbing first sentence! For anyone who knows these services and how long they have been around, it may focus the mind and prompt some questions.  As I […]