Universities in the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand (AAoNZ) region are navigating a complex and shifting landscape marked by policy uncertainty, immense financial pressure, and escalating calls for demonstrable community and industry impact. Maintaining public trust in research and improving universities’ social licence depends on transparent, reproducible scholarship and responsible stewardship of public funds. In…
Led by the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL), Universities Australia and Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara, the sector will take a unified position in upcoming negotiations with Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis.
The CAUL FTE data and bands provide standardised full-time equivalent (FTE) figures used for licensing and pricing digital scholarly content across CAUL Consortium member institutions. This data ensures consistency and fairness in content procurement negotiations.
The Content Procurement Service publishes principles, guidelines, and other guidance documents to inform vendors in developing offers for the Consortium, support Consortium participants in their negotiations with vendors, and support Content Coordinators and other participating institution staff in working with CAUL.
CAUL is committed to accelerating the transition to open access. As part of this commitment, the CAUL Consortium negotiates open access publishing agreements that enable researchers to publish openly without individual article processing charges (APCs).
Through an assertive and coordinated approach, the CAUL Consortium negotiates digital content agreements for participating institutions, providing significant benefits to members.
Content procurement for the university library sector is a key focus for CAUL. The Content Procurement Service's primary activity is operating the CAUL Consortium, which negotiates pricing and licensing for digital content products for Consortium participants.
Content procurement for the university library sector is a key focus for CAUL. The Content Procurement Service's primary activity is operating the CAUL Consortium, which negotiates pricing and licensing for digital content products for Consortium participants. Content procurement services optimise collective library resources for strategic content acquisition across institutions.
Global academic publisher Emerald Publishing has partnered with CAUL (Council of Australasian University Librarians) on a new agreement aimed at simplifying open access (OA) publishing in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.