Pricing Experiment Library Information Cooperative Network

 

What is PELICAN?

The PELICAN project is intended to develop an understanding of charging mechanisms for distributing commercially published electronic texts to students. It aims to develop a suitable pricing mechanism, which satisfies all stakeholders in the HE/FE community and could provide the foundation for a holistic distribution model of academic literature in digistised form.

 

 

What are PELICAN's aims?

  • to assess current practices in electronic delivery of text to students and establish existing usage patterns;
  • to identify pricing models most likely to be acceptable to students, HEIs, publishers, authors and the Copyright Licencing Agency (CLA);
  • to act as a facilitator to provide a communication network for the development of a suitable pricing mechanism and recognise the diverse interest of all stakeholders involved in the HE/FE community;
  • to help develop mutually acceptable ways of charging for distributing digitised materials to students;
  • and to help HEIs to gain a better understanding of the issues involved, thus enabling them to plan their own provision with more confidence.

 

 

How will PELICAN achieve these aims?

  • by promoting awareness of the different policies, and pricing strategies that are available for the delivery of commercially published electronic texts to students within the various stakeholder groups;
  • by identifying, documenting and disseminating strategic frameworks within which individual HEI libraries can develop budget strategies for eletronic texts that are appropriate to their needs and resource limitations;
  • by investigating, documenting and promoting research into the most appropriate pricing strategies that satisfy the needs of all stakeholders;
  • by investigating, documenting and promoting the most appropriate hardware and software solutions to the problems that are identified for the delivery of electronic texts.

 

 

Who works on the PELICAN project?

 

 

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