JISC Collections Publisher Contract

The Model JISC Collections – Publisher Contract is the umbrella contract used by the NESLi2 Negotiation Agent (on behalf of JISC Collections) in negotiations with publishers for NESLi2 journal agreements. It is an Agreement between the Publisher and JISC Collections on behalf of the community.

The Contract is separate from the NESLi2 licence in that the latter is the contractual agreement between a publisher and each institution signing up to a NESLi2 agreement. Institutions only need to sign the NESLi2 Licence.

The JISC Collections - Publisher Contract covers broader, general responsibilities of the publisher at Section 4:

COUNTER-compliant usage data and aggregated stats
Provide a helpdesk
Comply with Open URL standard
Comply with W3C standards
UK Access Management Federation
Provide complete title list information
Provide order details of all institutions taking up the offers
Provide title list updates to Link Resolver and A-Z list vendors
Collection of data relating to Open Access payments

JISC Collections also has responsibilities. These are:

To promote and publicise the Offer to the Institutions via closed mailing lists and a restricted section on the NESLi2 website
To inform institutions about changes to the NESLi2 Model Licence as agreed and following negotiation with each publisher

The JISC Collections – Publisher Contract is:

negotiated by the NESLi2 negotiation Agent with the publisher
negotiated at the same time as the NESLi2 licence because the NESLi2 licence is a Schedule of the JISC Collections Contract
signed by the Publisher and JISC Collections