Which resources are common to all disciplines?

 ISTEX

In the framework of the “Digital Scientific Library”, at the end of 2010 the French Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education (ABES) was mandated by the Higher Education and Research Ministry to negotiate national licences to acquire resources using the expertise of the Couperin consortium and the Inist-CNRS.

This national licences project includes major innovations compared to the ABES’s traditional grouped orders including:

• direct funding by the Ministry;
• a wider range of users. The initial minimum range covers all users of higher education and research establishments – universities, research organizations, “grandes écoles” in business and engineering, specialized training institutions, university hospitals, etc. This is likely to be extended to include users of the National Library of France (BnF) and members of the public registered with municipal libraries and at the “Bibliothèque Publique d’Information” (Bpi), according to the resources concerned;
• easier access. The resources concerned will be accessible on publishers’ platforms for a minimum duration of five years and will then be put onto a dedicated platform run by the Inist-CNRS.

The selection system for digital acquisitions includes a steering committee and a technical committee. Purchases involve journal archives and corpora of e-books but not current subscriptions.

For more information, please visit ISTEX and national licences

NATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS

The CNRS Scientific and Technical Information Department (DIST) and the Inist-CNRS manage national negotiations with the major scientific publishers. The aim is to provide resources for the whole community of CNRS researchers whatever their discipline. Generally, these negotiations are run at the national level in partnership with other higher education and research organizations but they can also just involve the CNRS.

These resources are a joint information base shared by the CNRS scientific institutes’ 10 disciplinary fields.

For more information, please visit national negotiations