Purchase of a License for digital content: Times Digital Archive Extension1986-2013ff. (TDA II) (Gale Cengage Learning)

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Wolfram Horstmann
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies ; European and American Literary and Cultural Studies ; German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature) ; German Medieval Studies (Medieval German Literature) ; Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2017 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 325146897

In compliance with the "Guidelines for the Purchase of Licenses funded by DFG" 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, the following offer for a digital object has been negotiated:- Times Digital Archive Extension 1986-2013ff. (TDA II) (Gale Cengage Learning) The subscription of the current content 2017-2019 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".

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