Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections (JSC): 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.