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
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 is 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 will be taken by implementing the registry software needed to store, manage and access the entitlement information in a prototype. This will involve the collection of subscription data and the introduction of infrastructure in which it can be recorded.
The project is closely aligned with a separate and parallel strand of activity led by JISC Collections. This project is focussing on data obtained from publishers and the verification of the extent of entitlement and the rights granted between publishers and subscribing institutions.
EDINA will seek access to the data collected in the JISC Collections project but will evaluate and assess other sources of entitlement data.
Links
- Project website for PECAN 1
- Final report for PECAN
- Proposal submitted for funding (PDF, 165Kb)
- JISC Collections PECAN project
Project Outputs
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