| Korean Electronic Site License Initiative (KESLI)
Department of Knowledge Resources Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information 335 Gwahangno, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-806, Republic of Korea Phone Number: +82-42-869-1887 Fax Number: +82-42-869-1740 E-mail address: kesli@ndsl.or.kr |
Jeong-Hwan Kim Manager kimjh@kisti.re.kr, kesli@ndsl.or.kr Jayhoon Kim Researcher acorn@ndsl.or.kr Beom-Jong You Director ybj@kisti.re.kr Number of office staff: 6 |
Brief description:
KESLI Consortium started in 1999 as a library consortium for joint buying scholarly e-Journals has grown up to one of the largest consortia around the world in the respect of the number of participant libraries. Currently, 355 libraries are member institutions of KESLI Consortium.
KESLI Consortium has been working on as a potential value creator rather than a buying club because we have developed many other programs such as re-education program, librarian exchange program, workshop and seminar programs as well as joint purchasing programs. All of those programs are evaluated to be high quality programs
We have built an integrated metadata search platform, NDSL (National Digital Science Links) and provided Korean researchers with metadata of international academic journal papers obtained from publishers participating in KESLI Consortium. Full texts of academic journal articles in printed format are also provided for domestic researchers through DDS.
Though KESLI consortium has been performed successfully through cooperative relationship between content providers and member institutions, KESLI consortium has faced new demands from libraries as the information distribution environment changes. We are trying to satisfy our member libraries and users as follows:(1) For the purpose of responding the continuous demands on standardized license model, we have been working on developing KESLI standard license model since 2008. Its draft version has been distributed to publishers. We plan to use KESLI standard license model instead of the license agreement of publishers by the end of this year.
(2) For the purpose of perpetual access and long-term preservation of subscribed licensed materials, we are working on the construction of National Digital Archive system.
Legal structure
Government-supported
Primary functions
Number and type of member libraries
Academic: 174; Public: 27; Research: 67; Corporate:€“ 56; Medical: 31Last updated March 2010