Publishing services

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Jisc Services Ltd intends to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Publishing Services “the Service”. The DPS will operate using multiple Suppliers. The aim of this DPS is to make it as simple and effecient as possible for eligible organisations to identify, assess and procure publishing services to enable them to publish journals and/or monographs. Eligible orgnisations can range in size – from teams of 2 people within a small press to larger organisations. In general, the aim of these organisations is to publish high quality academic content and to make it available under an open access business model. Some of the organisations will also be offering content for sale. JSL defines publishing services as the tools, software, solutions and services offered by a company to support / enable an organisation in publishing journals and/or monographs. Publishing services will differ according to the publication workflow and format but fall into the the main workflow areas of editorial, production, dissemination, preservation, marketing and analytics. Suppliers that offer publishing services in some or all of these areas can participate in this DPS. JSL is setting up this DPS in support of open access publishing and to encourage a diverse scholarly publishing ecosystem. The scope of the DPS covers purchases by JSL, Jisc, its members (https://www.jisc.ac.uk/membership) and any other organisation that satisfies the term ‘contracting authority’ as defined by the EU Procurement Directives 2014/24/EC. Further details of organisations eligible to use the service are in section 2.4 of the Request to Participate document. This lot includes services to support the publication of journals and other serial publications such as annual conference papers in electronic form in open access and under for sale business models. The aim of this DPS is to make it as simple and effecient as possible for eligible organisations to identify, assess and procure publishing services to enable them to publish journals and/or monographs. Eligible orgnisations can range in size – from teams of 2 people within a small press to larger organisations. In general, the aim of these organisations is to publish high quality academic content and to make it available under an open access business model. Some of the organisations will also be offering content for sale. JSL defines publishing services as the tools, software, solutions and services offered by a company to support / enable an organisation in publishing journals and/or monographs. Publishing services will differ according to the publication workflow and format but fall into the the main workflow areas of editorial, production, dissemination, preservation, marketing and analytics. Suppliers that offer publishing services in some or all of these areas can participate in this DPS. JSL is setting up this DPS in support of open access publishing and to encourage a diverse scholarly publishing ecosystem. The scope of the DPS covers purchases by JSL, Jisc, its members (https://www.jisc.ac.uk/membership) and any other organisation that satisfies the term ‘contracting authority’ as defined by the EU Procurement Directives 2014/24/EC. Further details of organisations eligible to use the service are in section 2.4 of the Request to Participate document. This lot includes services to support the publication of monographs in print and electronic format (including open access). Monographs are defined as academic book written on a single research topic of subject that is usually between 80-100 000 words, the monograph provides a detailed examination of a specific topic, with a carefully constructed presentation of evidence and contextual analysis. The term is also used more broadly to include edited collections of research essays, critical editions of texts and other works. It may also include other types of research such as scholarly exhibition catalogues. They are usually written by one author and typically aimed at, but not restricted to, a scholarly audience. The aim of this DPS is to make it as simple and effecient as possible for eligible organisations to identify, assess and procure publishing services to enable them to publish journals and/or monographs. Eligible orgnisations can range in size – from teams of 2 people within a small press to larger organisations. In general, the aim of these organisations is to publish high quality academic content and to make it available under an open access business model. Some of the organisations will also be offering content for sale. JSL defines publishing services as the tools, software, solutions and services offered by a company to support / enable an organisation in publishing journals and/or monographs. Publishing services will differ according to the publication workflow and format but fall into the the main workflow areas of editorial, production, dissemination, preservation, marketing and analytics. Suppliers that offer publishing services in some or all of these areas can participate in this DPS. JSL has set up this DPS in support of open access publishing and to encourage a diverse scholarly publishing ecosystem. The scope of the DPS covers purchases by JSL, Jisc, its members (https://www.jisc.ac.uk/membership) and any other organisation that satisfies the term ‘contracting authority’ as defined by the EU Procurement Directives 2014/24/EC. Further details of organisations eligible to use the service are in section 2.4 of the Request to Participate document. This lot includes both Lots 1 and 2. A supplier that is accepted on to both Lot 1: Journals and Lot 2: Monographs, will be automatically accepted to Lot 3.