FLVC Group Licensing of E-Resources (for 2023)

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List of Group Licensing Resources

FLVC currently supports an annual group licensing process for E-Resource products. In the summer, libraries are asked for a list of electronic resources they are interested in obtaining for the following year. FLVC gathers this information and request quotes from vendors for products that several institutions are interested in. The consortium negotiates group discounts, and the libraries agree to purchase a subscription for the following year. One payment is made by each institution to FLVC for all products purchased through a group license. FLVC then pays the vendors. All products are made available on January 1st of the following year.

For the 2023 group licensing process, FLVC negotiated pricing for 149 different products from 32 separate vendors, totaling over $2.4 million. The cost avoidance, which is the sum of the total savings by all institutions for participating in the group licensing process rather than buying these products separately, is $19,688,680. A full list of these products and vendors are included below:

AAAS
ABC-Clio
American Council of Learned Societies
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association
ArtSTOR
Cambridge University Press
Chronicle of Higher Education
Columbia University Press
Credo Reference
Digital Theatre
EBSCO Information Services
Elsevier
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
Gale/Cengage Learning
IGI Global
Infobase
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
JSTOR
LexisNexis
Mango Languages
McGraw-Hill
Mergent
Naxos of America, Inc.
Ovid
Oxford University Press
ProQuest
SAGE Publications
Thomson Reuters
World Trade Press