The goals of the CARLI E-Resources program include:

• Reducing e-resource costs for members
• Increasing the breadth and coverage of collections
• Purchasing materials of lasting value for our members

The CARLI Electronic Resources Licensing Principles outline the philosophical assumptions that provide the foundation for the CARLI Electronic Resources program.  These principles guide CARLI’s efforts in negotiating with publishers and vendors for a wide variety of electronic content on behalf of the membership. The licensing principles were created by the E-Resources Working Group and endorsed by the CARLI Board of Directors in early 2008.

CARLI subsidizes the cost of selected electronic resources for the benefit of all members. Subsidized resources comprise both content to which CARLI has perpetual rights and databases licensed as annual subscriptions.

CARLI also contracts with commercial database providers to supply members with discounted pricing for a broad range of indexing, abstracting, and full text databases to support their individual curricular and research needs. Member libraries pay the subscription costs for these resources but CARLI assumes the costs associated with

• Centralized licensing
• Centralized member billing
• Member support and vendor liaison services

Content provided through the E- Resources program is hosted on vendor maintained platforms, with the exception of digital images hosted on CARLI’s CONTENTdm server. E-Resource content obtained through CARLI makes use of all other member products (CONTENTdm, I-Share, SFX, and WebFeat) to effectively serve the information needs of students, faculty and staff at member libraries.

All CARLI members are eligible to participate in the database brokering program but may incur additional service fees depending upon their membership level, as follow:

• Governing members: Full participation with no service fees or restrictions
• Associate members: Full participation with no service fees or restrictions
• Basic members: Service fee $50 per database selected
• Non-members are ineligible to participate in the database brokering program.

For information about the database brokering program or becoming a CARLI member, email support@carli.illinois.edu .

The full list of CARLI members is available at: http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-libs.html.

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