Our services

CzechELib provides the following services to member institutions:

• EIRs acquisition
  • Concentration of requests from member institutions for the acquisition of EIRs,
  • Obtaining quotations from publishers,
  • Assessing user interest in the EIR(s) after pricing,
  • Negotiating optimal contractual terms that meet agreed priorities,
  • Drafting contracts and other legal documents,
  • Making the actual purchase and processing payments, including invoicing,
• Support for acquired EIRs
  • Database management (list of member institutions and their data, list of EIRs, list of publishers and contacts),
  • Handling changes (IP addresses, creation and termination, renaming, disintegration and merging of titles) and complaints,
  • Activation of remote access via Shibboleth,
  • Collecting and evaluating resource usage statistics,
• Open Access support
  • Provision of bibliometric services to users on the basis of interest,
  • Support to member institutions in the use of the publication parts of the contracts (open access agenda),
• Education
  • Information and reference service, training, seminars for users,
  • Conferences with international participation, etc.