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Citation
(1999), "NESLI - progress through collaboration", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 27 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.1999.12227bab.016
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
NESLI - progress through collaboration
NESLI progress through collaboration
Keywords Licensing, Electronic publishing, Academic libraries, Interlending, United Kingdom
The National Electronic Site Licence Initiative (NESLI) was established in 1998 by the JointInformation Systems Committee (JISC) to promote delivery and use of electronic journals within the UK higher education community. The NESLI managing agent, a consortium of Swets and Zeitlinger and Manchester Computing at the University of Manchester, was appointed at the same time. The Managing Agent's main objectives are to encouragepublishers to participate, provide a single access point for the electronic journals, administer the subscriptions to the journals and develop new e-journal services for the universities.
A NESLI Management Board, of staff from Swets and Manchester Computing, oversees the day-to-day operations of the initiative. The NESLI Steering Group, appointed by JISC, is comprised of prominent librarians and provides overall direction of NESLI.
The aim is to make NESLI a ''one-stop-shop'' for information which would include links to secondary databases and library OPACs. It is planned for the initiative to extend and simplify access to electronic journals available at the desktop through a common interface. Publishers will benefit from NESLI's promotional resources and from the fact that negotiations will be with only one body.
The year 1999 will be a busy one for the scheme as more discussions will take place with individual publishers both from the UK and overseas. There are also plans to explore and address possible solutions for electronic journal archiving.
Source: Learned publishing