Purchase of a License for digital content: MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society, dynamic database)

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Wolfram Horstmann
• Subject Area: Mathematics
• Term: from 2015 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 284324369

In compliance with the „Guidelines for the Purchase of Licenses funded by DFG“ [1] and consistent with the intents of the Priority Initiative „Digital Information“ of the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany concerning national licenses, serving to improve the information provisioning in research and teaching [2], the following offer for a digital object has been negotiated:• MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society, dynamic database)The subscription of the current content 2019-2021 is to be subscribed and made available within the framing of a nationwide opt-in consortium. The members of the consortia and the DFG will share the funding. An innovative business model and conditions have been negotiated for the contract that might prove to be trend-setting for future license contexts and comply with the high standard of the “alliance licenses”.[1] Cf. http://www.dfg.de/formulare/12_181/ [2] Cf. https://www.allianzinitiative.de/archiv/nationale-lizenzierung.html

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigator: Kristine Hillenkötter