CRKN works with publishers and vendors from around the world to bring academic research content to CRKN member institutions. Each content provider may offer one or more content packages for CRKN member institutions and CRKN negotiates each license with terms that are fixed for the length of the contract (generally three to five years).
The Content Strategy Committee has developed a set of Licensing Program Principles and Assessment Guidelines for Open Access Publishers that guide CRKN’s licensing activities. Publishers and vendors wishing to propose new content for licensing with CRKN should review the Licensing Program Principles and Assessment Guidelines for Open Access Publishers.
CRKN also believes in fair, predictable, and transparent pricing. As such, we have developed the Banding System to provide a relative measure of comparison of research and teaching intensity among consortium members and to give content vendors a consistent basis for setting prices. We encourage vendors and publishers to review the principles of the banding system to ensure alignment with any proposed pricing.
If you have an opportunity that is in alignment with CRKN’s principles, please send an email to licensing@crkn.ca.
Electronic Books
ACUP/APUC – eBOUND
De Gruyter
MIT Press
Electronic Journals
American Chemical Society
American Mathematical Society
Cambridge University Press
Canadian Science Publishing
Elsevier
Érudit
Institute of Physics
Oxford University Press
PLOS
Royal Society of Chemistry
SAGE Publications
Springer Nature
Taylor & Francis
Wiley
Primary Source Resources and Databases
Adam Matthew Digital
ARTstor
Center for Research Libraries
Economist Intelligence Unit
Gale Cengage Learning
InteLex Corporation
JSTOR
ProQuest
Software and Services
Clarivate
Covidence
DMTI
Elsevier
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
JISC
RePrints Desk Inc.
SciFree