Tools and Resources for Licensing
Tools and Resources for Licensing are designed to support our members with valuable information, best practices, and streamlined tools for navigating and working through the licensing process. Whether you're seeking guidance or templates, this section provides resources to help enhance licensing efficiency and collaboration.
Model License
A community-generated template that addresses some of the most pressing challenges in the emerging scholarly communications landscape. The Model License provides guidance in negotiating agreements and can be amended and adapted to meet local needs and situations.
NERL Preferred Deal Elements
The Preferred Deal Elements (PDE) highlight and map directly to NERL values. These PDE's will help to develop and deliver subscription agreements that help to achieve what is most important to all our missions—access to knowledge.
Open Publishing Models
In 2023, the NERL Program Council Executive Committee convened a working group to develop standards for assessing and negotiating "Read and Publish" agreements. Guided by NERL’s principles of transparency, sustainability, equity, reproducibility, and adaptability, the group created the Criteria for Evaluation of Vendor Read and Publish Agreements as a practical tool for negotiation teams.
ConsortiaManager
CRL Licensing & Acquisitions utilizes ConsortiaManager for submitting vendor orders, managing renewal communications, updating IP changes with vendors, and invoicing. We currently use two instances of the tool: one for CRL Global Licensing Program resources and one for NERL Licensing resources. If you would like a user account for your institution in either, please complete this form.