Piloting for Ensuring Continuity of Access via NESLi2 Phase 2

Acronym

PECAN

Duration

1 May 2011 to 31 September 2012

EDINA Contacts

Fred Guy, Project Manager

Funders

JISC

Summary

The PECAN Project (Pecan 1), carried out jointly by EDINA and JISC Collections, identified the need to develop a shared service to record each higher educations institution’s archival access to journal titles.

Central to supplying this need was an “Entitlement Registry”, which would provide an authoritative record of access entitlement, increasingly important when institutions cancel journal deals as a result of budget pressures and when society titles (and their backfiles) move from one publisher to another.

In this project, the first step towards developing a potential service for use by HEIs and publishers alike was taken by implementing the registry software needed to store, manage and access the entitlement information in a prototype. This involved the collection of subscription data and the introduction of infrastructure in which it can be recorded.

The project was closely aligned with a separate and parallel strand of activity led by JISC Collections. This project focused on data obtained from publishers, the verification of the extent of entitlement, and the rights granted between publishers and subscribing institutions.

EDINA accessed the data collected in the JISC Collections project but evaluated and assessed other sources of entitlement data.