CKRN signs new three-year deals for scholarly content

The Canadian Knowledge Research Network (CKRN) has completed a series of three-year licence renewals with 14 scholarly publishers in deals worth $140 million. The agreements will provide continued access to world-class resources for more than 850,000 researchers and students at 73 universities across Canada. The new agreements also unbundle sets of core licences, allowing member researchers to tailor their participation in each separate agreement. They represent a savings of more than $40 million over institutional agreements for comparable content. The agreements cover a diverse range of content ranging from science/technology/medical to humanities and social sciences in formats such as e-journals, databases, primary sources, newspapers and historical archives?.