10. Licence Uptake for Services

The number of institutional licences in 2007/2008 for the national services sponsored by JISC is shown below, in the context of uptake in the five previous years:

Take-up of licences across the EDINA Services

Reading and Reference Services

	Index to The Times	Inspec	Land Life Leisure	SUNCAT	OpenURL Router
2003/2004	21	16	36	-	-
2004/2005	14	16	36	-	30
2005/2006	15	16	37	49	48
2006/2007	15	11	37	65	67
2007/2008	10	11	43	66	83

Maps and Data

	UKBORDERS	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	Marine Digimap
2003/2004	116	85	-	-	-
2004/2005	220*	93	26	-	-
2005/2006	165	184	46	-	-
2006/2007	119	148	57	21	-
2007/2008	156	151	67	39	11

* the method for securing authorisation in the Census Programme has changed; the figure for 2004/2005 is likely an overestimate, more like an upper bound.

Multimedia and Education

	Jorum		Film & Sound Online	Education Image Gallery
	Contributor licences	User licences
2003/2004	-	-	184	58
2004/2005	-	-	248	102
2005/2006	44	225	296	124
2006/2007	82	357	358	133
2007/2008	96	404	356	110

August 2007 marked the start of a new two-year licence period for Digimap Collections. Subscriptions for the Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection within HE institutions continue to increase and subscription for FE colleges remained stable. There was a further increase in Historic Digimap subscriptions and subscriptions to Geology Digimap rose significantly. Marine Digimap was launched in early 2008 and has an encouraging number of subscriptions. UKBORDERS does not require an institutional subscription and continues to have wide institutional uptake.

Likewise, there were new licence agreements in place for Film & Sound Online and Education Image Gallery. There was a consolidation in institutional uptake for Film & Sound Online (moving pictures and sounds) and a reduction for EIG (still images). EIG requires a paid subscription; Film & Sound is a free service.

The figures for subscription services for the abstract and indexing (A&I) databases in the Reading and Reference Room remained relatively stable with an increase in subscriptions for Land Life Leisure. During 2007/2008 the SUNCAT service concentrated on checking the quality of data from existing contributing libraries.

The Jorum repository service – supporting the submission, sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching (L&T) materials in UK FE and HE institutions – was launched as a user service in January 2006. The institutional user licence uptake within the first two years exceeded all expectations. Jorum does not require a paid subscription.

Total monthly log-in statistics for all EDINA services are given in Appendix 2.