From the The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) is an important German research funding organization and the largest such organization in Europe. Through its Nationwide Library Service Programme it has been providing access to digital publications by through a programme of national licenses.
Since 2004, the DFG has acquired national licenses for digital publications as an additional component of providing nationwide access to scientific literature. License agreements with scholarly societies, commercial publishers and other information providers are valid for the whole area of Germany.
The purchase of national licenses for complete databases, back issues of journals, and e-books is funded by the German Research Foundation in order to improve the research infrastructure for all scientific disciplines with respect to digital collections of literary works and publications as well as to digital journal archives.
A licensing contract between the library and the publisher guarantees the access to the licensed material not only for patrons of the library but also for private users (via personal registration) or members of any German public funded university or research institution. The usage is unlimited and the number of simultaneous users unrestricted.
Pretty awesome! Although pricing had to take into account that with a nationwide license there would be no market anymore for the product of the publisher in Germany - eep!
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