1. CzechELib – the first year of existence
Mgr. Marie Skřivanová
Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts Project Support and
CzechELib Expert Council Member
MUST WEEK,

2. Presentation scheme What is CzechELib? Organizational Structure
Evolution of the project
Project rules for institutions
Project rules for suppliers
Purchase of electronic information resources
Who can participate?
Which electronic information resources are being provided?
Questions

3. What is CzechELib?
National Centre for Electronic Information Resources (EIR)
Managed by Czech National Library of Technology and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Represents all major users of EIR in Czech Republic
Is co-funded by the European Union – Operational Programme Research, Development and Education in the years 2017 – 2022
Total costs 1,3 billion CZK

4. What is CzechELib? Ensures the effective purchase of EIR in CR
Aims to significantly reduce public spending on related administrative activities
Negotiates licence agreements for research organizations
Covers broad range of EIR (STM, SSH)
Provides support with access and use of EIR
Manages and evaluates the statistics

5. Organizational Structure
Steering comittee
Project Supervisory body
Chief Project Manager
Director of CzechELib
Project Team
Project Expert Council
Guarantors of Key Activities (KA1-7)

6. Organizational Structure

7. Evolution of the project
various projects of Ministry of Education
LR programme – for Prague + SSH
Operational Programme (whole Republic except Prague)
2016 – preparations of project proposal
beginning of the project CzechELib

8. Evolution of the project
2016 – preparation of the proposal to Ministry
2017 – adminstrative preparations (setting of the régime, preparation of rules, negotiating with institutions, collecting power of attorney, vote on EIRs)
2018 – beginning of funding, administrative tasks
(licensing, negotiating with institutions and EIR suppliers)

9. Project rules for institutions
Electronic information resources (EIR) has to be for research
Participating institutions must conduct research
Funding up to 50% of the prices of EIR
70% funding for citation analysis tools (WoS, Scopus, SciVal, InCites)
At least 3 institutions for each EIR

10. Project rules for suppliers
Remote access of EIR
Using of Shibboleth
CzechELib Standard License
Possibility of early termination of the contract with the supplier

11. Purchase of electronic information resources
EIR are purchased through public tenders (negotiated procedure without prior publication)
20 public contracts for EIRs for and more coming for EIRs from 2019+
7 public contracts for other services (legal, publicity, hardware, office equipment)
Payments are made in original currency (not CZK)
Guaranteed exchange rate from National Bank

12. Who can participate?
CzechELib aims to cover with EIR fields of research, development and innovation in the Czech republic
Universities, Research Institutions, Public Libraries, Hospital, others (Czech Science Foundation, National Film Archive, National Museum, National Technical Museum, Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, The National Gallery in Prague)

13. Who can participate? Various institutions = various rules =
Type of institution
Number of institutions
Public research institution 44
University (Public, Private, State) 28
Public library (incl. Specialized) 15
State organization 11
Hospital (incl. University h.) 8
Companies 4
NGOs 1
Office of the Government
Total
112
Various institutions = various rules =
various requests

14. Electronic information resources provided
108 EIRs, consisting of thousands e-journals, databases and more
17 EIRs for Masaryk university
Proquest, EBSCO, JSTOR, Wiley, Springer, Emerald, SAGE, Clarivate Analytics, Taylor&Francis, ThomsonReuters etc

15. Electronic information resources provided

16. Questions Are we happy to have CzechELib?
From where did we get the inspiration?
Is it really cheaper? …
Thank you for your attention.
Marie Skřivanová,