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Supra-regional Licensing

Through its commitment to the supra-regional licensing of electronic media, the SUB Göttingen makes a significant contribution to improving the local, Lower Saxony and national supply of literature.

Office of the Lower Saxony Consortium

The Lower Saxony Consortium serves the information supply of scientific institutions in the state. With its services, it supports the provision of literature in the region, open access transformation and open access publishing. It is committed to the standards of the "Digital Information" alliance initiative, which can be adapted to the regional needs context as required. The services offered by the Lower Saxony Consortium are primarily aimed at academic libraries in Lower Saxony, including private universities of applied sciences. However, license offers, transformation agreements and framework agreements for publication fees can be addressed to all academic institutions in Germany.

The SUB Göttingen operates the office of the consortium and negotiates with the providers of scientific information. The NeidersachsenOPEN team also administers the Lower Saxony-wide publication fund NiedersachsenOPEN.

The services of the Lower Saxony Consortium are financially supported by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK). The Lower Saxony Consortium includes

  • all regional and supra-regional bids negotiated by the negotiators of the Lower Saxony Consortium.
  • all regional and supra-regional offers negotiated by the SUB Göttingen and the TIB Hannover in other licensing contexts (with and without third-party funding).
  • the mediation of participation in supra-regional offers of other negotiators and consortia in Germany.

Contact Office of the Lower Saxony Consortium

Kristine Hillenkötter

Head of Information Provision

Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1

37073 Goettingen

Claudia Rölleke

Head of Digital Resources

Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1

37073 Goettingen

DFG | National Licenses

The Göttingen State and University Library makes the content of 27 electronic resources permanently available to interested users from all over Germany. For this purpose, national framework agreements, so-called national licenses, were concluded with the rights holders between 2004 and 2010. The contract negotiations were part of the DFG's funding program for supra-regional literature provision.

You can search the contents of the products and the metadata in the National Licenses Portal of the SUB Göttingen. Please refer to the search help.

Do you need access to the digitized material? Institutions and private individuals must first register. Registration is done centrally via the website nationallizenzen.de.

The use of the content provided is subject to conditions that may vary from case to case. When using the material provided, please observe the applicable terms of use. You will find these under the information on the individual offers.

Here you will also find information on the open access conditions agreed in the licenses.

National Licences Provided

America's Historical Newspapers by Readex is one of the most comprehensive digitized collections of newspapers published in the United States of America between 1690 and 1922.

The 17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers database contains digitized English newspapers and pamphlets (a total of 1,270 titles) from the 17th and 18th centuries from the collection of the clergyman Charles Burney (1757-1817).

The 19th Century British Library Newspapers database contains the full texts of 47 British newspapers from the 19th century as a representative selection from the British Library's newspaper collection.

U.S. Declassified Documents Online (USDD) - formerly known as: Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) - provides access to documents that have been declassified by U.S. government agencies.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) is a comprehensive collection of digitized publications published in North America from 1639-1800.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw/Shoemaker (1801-1819) is a sequel to Series I: Evans, a comprehensive collection of digitized publications published in North America from 1801-1819.

Based on the English Short Title Catalogue,Eighteenth Century Collections Online offers access to over 180,000 titles of books, pamphlets, essays and broadsides published primarily in Great Britain.

The Eighteenth Century Journals collection contains over 150 popular 18th century journals published in Great Britain in full text.

The Economist Historical Archive contains the complete contents of all print editions of The Economist from 1843 to 2007.

The Empire Online collection contains essays, sources and data in thematic groupings on the entire topic of colonialism and imperialism.

The Financial Times Historical Archive contains the complete contents of all print editions of the "Financial Times" from 1888 - 2006.

Making of the Modern World economics, politics and industry is a comprehensive collection of economic literature from the second half of the 15th century to the middle of the 19th century, which is of particular importance for the study of early economic, political and social history.

The Making of Modern Law (MOML 1) enables comprehensive research into the modern legal system and its development in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Making of Modern Law U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978 database provides a comprehensive exploration of modern law and political change in the United States from the perspective of the Supreme Court and the parties involved in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Making of Modern Law : Trials 1600-1926 / MOML 3 continues the databases MOML 1 and 2 already available under national license and supplements them in terms of content.

Making of Modern Law : Primary Sources (1620-1926) is the final installment in the series and provides 1,850,000 pages of 1,740 titles of source material on U.S. legal history.

The Macmillan Online collection contains over 30,000 pages of original documents from the reign of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.

The Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers database contains exclusively English-language full texts of approximately 400 newspapers from all U.S. states and territories from the publication period between 1800 and 1900 and comprises approximately 1.5 million pages.

The database Northern Ireland - A Divided Community 1921-1972 contains digitized cabinet minutes and other files of the British regional government in Northern Ireland from 1921-1972.

Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 2000 plays from the United States and Canada in full text form, including 550 previously unpublished plays.

The Times Digital Archive provides an unrivaled opportunity to explore the content of the best known and most quoted daily newspaper online and in the context of the original edition.

The Times Digital Archive II provides an unrivaled opportunity to explore the content of the best known and most quoted daily newspaper online and in the context of the original edition.

The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive contains the full text of all issues of the Times Literary Supplement from the first issue in 1902 to 2005 and presents a panorama of the works of important writers and thinkers during this period.

The U.S. Congressional Serial Set 1817-1980 contains 12 million pages of 350,000 publications and 52,000 maps in digitized form.

The North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories collection contains approximately 100,000 pages of information on 2162 authors who lived between 1800 and 1950.

The collection Wegbereiter der Österreichischen Psychologie comprises 34 titles (mostly first editions) in German with a total of 13,000 full-text pages, written by psychologists and psychoanalysts who are regarded as forerunners of Austrian psychology.

The collection Die 1848/49er Revolutionäre und ihre Einflüsse in den USA contains books by German-speaking citizens who emigrated to the United States in the 19th century.

Competence Center for Licensing (KfL)

As part of the KfL project, the SUB Göttingen and the Bavarian State Library act as project partners in the system of DFG-funded Specialized Information Services for Science (FID) as central service providers for the negotiation, licensing and supra-regional provision of digital media (FID licenses) in order to support the FID in the performance of their tasks.

The competence center offers services in the following areas:

  • Negotiation of FID licenses and open access transformation agreements
  • Supra-regional provision of FID licenses and open access transformation contracts
  • Indexing and verification
  • data management
  • reporting

If you would like to get in touch with the KfL colleagues, please use the contact form on the project website.