1. Perpetual Access and post cancellation activities in switzerland Consortium of swiss academic libraries
„SafeNet: End of Project Workshop“
Pascalia Boutsiouci, Edinburgh, 25 July 2016
Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries | 2016

2. Some facts and figures Consortium since 2000
Expenditures 2015 for licenses
Consortium since 2000
Office: 5 FTE = 6-7 persons
About 160 products
Partners: 55 libraries
75 license agreements
55 publishers
2015 = CHF 27.8 m. (GBP 21.4 m.)

3. Prepatory projects 2005 to 2012 2005-2007 E-Archiving project
Theoretical faisibility study about
long-term preservation in general
local storage for the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries
E-Depot project
Implementation of software: Digitool/Ex Libris with Elsevier data (consortia licence)
Successful from a technical point of view
But requires significant input of manpower and resources
Result: no operation as a permanent service for Switzerland
2012 Portico & LOCKSS evaluation
As possible alternatives for providing access to licensed material 

4. Consortia licences with Portico & LOCKSS
Portico and LOCKSS
Negotiations with
2013
Consortium agreement with Portico
06/ /2016
7 participants CH
2 participants GER
Consortium agreement with LOCKSS
08/ /2016
5 participants CH

5. Current topic: national licences
Governmental support via SUK P-2 (swissuniversities)
CHF 7.6 m. for product licences/purchases
CHF 2.57 m. for longterm preservation and project administration
Backfile-Archives
Target group is scientific community
Linkage to Current Content/ OA/Moving Wall/TDM
Filling gaps
Longterm access

6. National licences purchases
Cambridge Journals Archive
Oxford Journals Archive
de Gruyter Journals Archive
Cell Press Journals Archive

7. Hosting rights CUP

8. Hosting rights OUP

9. Hosting rights de Gruyter

10. Perpetual access rights Cell Press

11. Pascalia Boutsiouci, pascalia.boutsiouci@library.ethz.ch