Through an assertive and coordinated approach, the CAUL Consortium negotiates digital content agreements for participating institutions, providing significant benefits through:
- delivering increased value for money through economies of scale and effective negotiation
- negotiating favourable terms for agreements
- saving participating institutions time by streamlining procurement workflows
- exercising influence in the digital content marketplace.
The Consortium is focused on enabling libraries to leverage their existing subscription expenditures to facilitate increased open access publishing. To support libraries in making the most of their open access agreements, the Consortium also provides infrastructure to support communication with user communities about the agreements and to enable reporting on publishing under the agreements.