Purchase of a License for digital content: PsyJournals (Hogrefe)

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Wolfram Horstmann
• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology ; Developmental and Educational Psychology ; Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology ; Social Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology
• Term: from 2018 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 393000159

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: PsyJournals (Hogrefe). The subscription of the current content 2018-2020 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)
• Participating Institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg; Verbundzentrale (VZG) des Gemeinsamen Bibliotheksverbundes (GBV)
• Co-Investigator: Kristine Hillenkötter