Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections: Priorities for Licensing
May 2003
The JSC enumerated these variables to guide scheduling priorities of electronic resource licensing:
Number of times cited by various disciplines (i.e., number of votes from bibliographer's survey)
Compelling rationale
Documented faculty support and demand
Ranking within discipline
Proven value (e.g., widely and successfully owned)
Digital version adds substantial value over print version
Subject balance
Sizable constituency
Meets acceptable licensing, performance, and access terms
Consortial advantage (price, ports, etc.)
UC faculty-created resource
Publication by non-profit and/or represents innovative, sustainable model
Balance of material types (i.e., reference, abstracting/indexing, full-text)
Lower priority will be assigned to materials where access is already adequate, where there is no systemwide cost advantage, that present technical difficulties, or where there is comparable open-access material.
