IGI Global Journals

Benefits

• Standard Chest terms and conditions
• Subscriptions and Perpetual purchases available
• Discounts of up to 64%
• Price fixed for 3 years
• 100% offset OA waiver against subscription or purchase

Important Dates

Agreement start: 1 January 2016

Agreement end: 31 December 2020

Licence dates: Subscriptions are co-terminus with the agreement, and subsequent invoices are sent on or after 1 October.

One time licences are in perpetuity.

VAT

From 1 May 2020:

• Zero rate VAT applies to IGI Global Journals

Commitment Period

This Agreement is of 3 years duration. Institutions may join the agreement at any time during the agreement period. If a subscription is taken they will then be committed to the end of the Agreement Period unless they have exercised the opt out clause by giving appropriate notice to Eduserv.

Licence type

Site licence.

Trial

A free 30 day trial is available contact Chest Help with your IP address range.

Eligible Institutions

Universities, colleges and other learning, educational and research bodies in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

Other organisations aligned with Jisc’s charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Chest will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.

Background Information

This agreement was negotiated following positive feedback from UK institutions trialling the content.

Supplier Details

Licensor: IGI Global, a privately held publishing company headquartered at 701 E Chocolate Ave, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.

Product Description

There are 175 scholarly reference journals covering information science and technology included in the Collection (and a further 6 which are no longer published). This comprehensive collection offers unlimited access to ground-breaking research provided by experts from around the world covering the core subject areas of:

• Business and Management Information Science and Technology
• Computer Science and Information Technology
• Educational Science and Technology
• Engineering Science and Technology
• Environmental Science and Technology
• Library Information Science and Technology
• Media and Communication Science and Technology
• Medical, Healthcare, and Life Science and Technology
• Government Science and Technology
• Security and Forensic Science and Technology
• Social Sciences and Online Behavior.

Available as:

• Annual subscription (retaining the rights to titles produced within the year subscribed).
  
  
• Perpetual purchase (buying outright rights to titles within the collection up to and including 2018 – or year of purchase in 2019 or 2020) as a whole collection or by Subject discipline.
  
  
• 100% OA waiver – The OA waiver program provides an offset of 100% for APC’s. If an individual’s research is accepted into any one of IGI Global‘s 185 journals, they will be given the option to utilise the APC waiver from the institution's fund. IGI Global’s APC is currently US$ 1,500 (e.g. If an institution’s spend is $15,000 then they have 10 free of charge APC’s to use in the year of purchase / subscription).
   
  IGI Global will share when waivers are used with the key library contact (Admin Contact on order) on file. Typically, they are asked for waiver usage and/or pending article submission report updates quarterly.
  
  IGI doesn't need approval for the waiver to be claimed. However, if someone from the library wants to monitor/approve funds, they are happy to facilitate this request.

Payment Terms

Subscriptions

On receipt of a completed Order, Institutions will be invoiced for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed.

In subsequent years, Institutions will be invoiced three months in advance of the anniversary date of the Agreement, on 1 October 2018 and 2019.

There is no pro-rata charging for Institutions which become licensed partway through a licence year.

Perpetual purchase

On receipt of a completed Order, Institutions will be invoiced for the one-time fee for the Agreement year in which the Licence is signed.

There is no pro-rata charging for Institutions which become licensed partway through a licence year.

Chest is an Enterprise of Jisc. All Purchase orders must be made out to JISC, One Castlepark, Tower Hill, Bristol, BS2 0JA

Payments are due within thirty days of invoice date; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK s

Full title list

Access and Identity Management Solution

Technical Function Specification

The supplier confirms that throughout the term of the agreement the products will comply with the standards indicated.

Updates

Are stated on the title list. 

Alterations/Additions

All additions and new functionality will be incorporated at no additional charge or subscriptions.

Perpetual purchases are fixed for the year of purchase.

Trials

A free 30 day trial is available contact Chest Help with your IP address range. 

Login information

IGI Global Gateway Login

Technical Support

Support will be provided via a single contact or his/her deputy at each Institution by IGI Global or their authorised agent in the UK the Eurospan Group. Contact details:

• email: eresources@igi-global.com or databases@eurospangroup.com
• phone: 001 717-533-8845 x100 or Tony O'Rourke at Eurospan Group on 07716 585060 or +(0)20 7240 0856 (Eurospan offices)

Product Documentation

User guides are available in the "Librarian Corner" of the platform. Please contact the e-resources team for customized guides, handouts and/or training videos.

Training and Training Materials

User guides are available in the "Librarian Corner" of the platform. Please contact the e-resources team for customized guides, handouts and/or training videos.