Virginia's Academic Library Consortium

VIVA has started a two-year institutional partnership with PLOS in their Flat Fee Agreement, which allows corresponding authors at participating institutions to publish open access articles in seven PLOS journals at no cost. 

SUMMARY: VIVA is beginning a new two-year partnership with PLOS. As part of the Flat Fee Agreement, corresponding authors at participating institutions can publish open access at no cost in seven PLOS journals: PLOS Complex Systems, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Digital Health, PLOS Genetics, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLOS ONE, and PLOS Pathogens. No administration is required by researchers or library staff at participating institutions.  

INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED: All public institutions (except VCU and WM as they currently participate in another consortial agreement with PLOS). Discounted pricing for private institutions has been sent to Collection Development contacts. Please let us know if your institution would like to opt in by January 26, 2024.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2024

VENDOR SUPPORT:

Sales Inquiries: Mauricio Elwyn, melwyn@plos.org

OA Publishing Support: institutionalaccounts@plos.org

Please send any questions to viva@gmu.edu

VIVA has started a new agreement with Knowledge Works Global (KGL) to provide publishing services. 

SUMMARY: VIVA has partnered with Knowledge Works Global (KGL) to provide publishing services for VIVA Open Grant recipients for their grant-funded open textbooks, open monographs, and other Open Educational Resources (OER). KGL provides a host of content solutions, including interior and cover design, typesetting, EPUB conversion, artwork/graphics processing, copyediting, proofreading, indexing, accessibility remediation and testing, research and permissions clearance and management, animations, project management, other related services, and print on demand through sister company, Sheridan. 

 This contract is platform-agnostic and does not impact other VIVA-sponsored publishing support, such as Pressbooks or VIVA Open.

 While the contract was designed with OER creation in mind, KGL is also able to provide the same publishing services for books and journals. Additional services not outlined in the contract may also be available; please reach out to KGL with requests or questions about additional services.

 INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED / COST: VIVA will coordinate publishing services for VIVA Open Grant recipients from all institutions. These services are covered by central funds. All member institutions are welcome to use the VIVA agreement as a contract vehicle to provide services to their local institutions at the negotiated rates. Reach out to KGL at the contacts below for a full quote for needed services. Payment for such support would be paid directly from the institution to KGL. 

 EFFECTIVE DATE: February 1st, 2023. 

 VENDOR SUPPORT: For sales questions, please contact: Sanjay Tangri, sanjay.tangri@kwglobal.com and cc viva.kgl@kwglobal.com, the dedicated VIVA-KGL email. For customer service and technical questions please email viva.kgl@kwglobal.com

VIVA has started an agreement with Celus Plus (https://www.celus.net/) to manage our usage statistics.  Created with consortia in mind, Celus Plus has not only harvesting and storage capabilities for e-resource usage statistics but also display and analysis tools.  This new service will automate much of the usage statistics collection work of VIVA; provide more data than we currently provide, such as denials; and enable cross-product comparison, such as rankings of titles by usage and overlap analyses.  

 VIVA’s subscription will cover the shared products, but schools would be able to add a local subscription to Celus for their non-VIVA publishers and vendors at a discounted rate.

VIVA has started a three-year transformative agreement with Cambridge University Press that will allow corresponding authors at all participating institutions to publish open access articles within almost all of CUP’s journals at no additional cost, and which will expand reading access for many to include all of CUP’s journals.

 SUMMARY:  VIVA is beginning a new transformative (read and publish) agreement with CUP.  All participating institutions will now have read access to all of CUP’s over 400 journals (the title list is attached), which represents a dramatic expansion of content for many of the institutions.  Corresponding authors at the participating institutions will also be able to publish journal articles open access at no cost from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025.  This includes almost all of the CUP journals; around 12 are not allowing open access at this time (see column D for “No OA” in the attached title list).  No administration is required by researchers or library staff at participating institutions, and existing transformative agreement institutions will still have access to their own admin portal in RightsLink.  Institutions will receive quarterly and annual cumulative reports detailing their respective publishing outputs.  For existing transformative agreement customers, this will go to the existing contact; for others new to this, it will go to their Collection Development Contact (https://vivalib.org/va/about/contacts/collections) unless you tell me otherwise.

 INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED: All public institutions, as well as the participating private institutions (Hollins University, Mary Baldwin University, Randolph-Macon College, Roanoke College, Shenandoah University, University of Richmond, and Washington & Lee).

 EFFECTIVE DATE:  January 1, 2023.

 ACCESS AND DISCOVERY:  At the start of the agreement next year, participating institutions should select the 2023 full journal collection option in their respective knowledge base: “Cambridge Journals: 2023 Full Collection.”

 AUTHOR RESOURCES:  Author resources for publishing OA are available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/journals/publishing-open-access/convert-your-article-to-open-access. The attached slides document the author publishing workflow. The key element to note is the decision point around OA, which is the step where an author signs their license to publish. The author experience here will depend upon the journal they are publishing into:

• The majority of the journals follow the process set out on slide 8. Post-acceptance, an author will be directed to a page which hosts the license forms for their journal. They must select the OA license and sign it. At this time, CUP does not have a way to inform authors that they are covered by a transformative agreement on this page, but prior to this step they do encourage authors to check whether they are covered by a transformative agreement using the Waivers and Discounts tool.
• 128 of the journals use an improved license solution, where authors are directed toward a dynamic form which does inform authors that they are covered by a transformative agreement.  An example of this form is on slide 9.
• If authors do not publish OA but are eligible to do so under an agreement, CUP contacts them soon after publication – this is the retroactive OA process set out on slide 10. This language informs authors that they are covered by an agreement and can make the OA decision at this stage in full confidence of no additional cost. This process is applicable to all journals and is handled entirely by Cambridge. 

 VENDOR SUPPORT:  Please use the following contacts:

Questions Related to Open Access Publishing: OAqueries@cambridge.org

Technical Support: academictechsupport@cambridge.org

Sales: Don Gallagher, Donald.gallagher@cambridge.org

VIVA has renewed the Docuseek2 Complete Collection for all public institutions with three years of access from 2024-2026. This includes an upgrade to the Complete Collection for public two-year institutions that currently have the Essentials Collection.

SUMMARY: VIVA has renewed its Docuseek subscription, initially funded through the CARES Act, with an upgrade to the Complete Collection for all public institutions, for three years from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The Complete Collection includes nearly 2,500 streaming videos from distributors like Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, Film Movement, GOOD DOCS, First Run Features, and more. These documentary films cover a variety of subjects, including anthropology, environmental studies, history, and law and politics.

INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED: All public institutions. Public two-year institutions that currently have the Essentials Collection will be upgraded to the Complete Collection. Discounted rates are available for private institutions. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2024

ACCESS AND DISCOVERY: MARC records are available for download from your institution’s administrative portal. After logging in, navigate to the Cataloging tab from the My Account page. Additionally, promotional materials, such as postcards, flyers, and bookmarks are available on the Docuseek website. 

VENDOR SUPPORT:

Technical Support: support@docuseek2.com

Sales Inquiries: Elena Wayne, sales@docuseek2.com

Please send any questions to viva@gmu.edu

VIVA now has a subscription to Platino Educa.

 SUMMARY: Platino Educa is a Spanish Language film streaming platform with over 300 films from Spain and Latin America. The films are classified by subject and cover a broad range of themes, including art, history, environmental science, literature, and social justice. The films were specifically selected for teaching and some come paired with preselected scene clips and educational guides. Films have Spanish and English subtitles. More than 70% of titles are solely distributed in the U.S. through Platino Educa. The product was voted “Best New Product” at the 2022 Charleston Library Conference.

 INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED: All public institutions will now have access. Private institutions will have an opportunity to opt-in. Discounted rates are available and will be shared with private institution Collection Development Contacts soon.

 EFFECTIVE DATE: August 1, 2023

ACCESS AND DISCOVERY: The direct access URL is: https://www.platinoeduca.com. A title list and catalog records are attached and also available for download on the VIVA website. Please note that some films on the title list are marked as pending. These titles are currently being added to the platform and will be available soon. A new MARC file will be shared when these films are available. For EZproxy and OpenAthens, please use the following stanza information:

 URL https://www.platinoeduca.com

HJ https://www.platinoeduca.com

DJ platinoeduca.com   

 VENDOR SUPPORT:

Sales Inquiries: PJ Kuyper, pj@platinoeduca.net

VIVA has started a new streaming subscription with Psychotherapy.net. The subscription provides access to Psychotherapy.net’s Full Collection. 

SUMMARY: VIVA’s Psychotherapy.net subscription allows for unlimited access to 338 videos designed to improve the clinical skills of mental health professionals. Psychotherapy.net videos feature Yalom, Linehan, Kernberg and other experts in session with real clients, and step-by-step explanations of their interventions. With the Psychotherapy.net video library students can see theory being put into action, bridging the gap between learning about therapy and actually providing therapy. VIVA’s subscription gives users access to the Full Collection, as well as automatic addition of future content, added throughout the year. 

  INSTITUTIONS AFFECTED: All public institutions and all Pooled Funds private institutions. 

 EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1^st, 2023. 

 COSTS: The public institution subscription is covered by Central Funds with a cost share from previous subscribers. The private group subscription is covered by Pooled funds with a cost share from previous subscribers.  Psychotherapy.net offers the non-Pooled Funds private institutions a discount to opt-in locally. 

 ACCESS: All VIVA institutions have already been asked to share their proxy information, which VIVA has shared with Psychotherapy.net. Psychotherapy.net will be providing each school with a customized url. This will look like: http//psychotherapy.net/stream/[Institution_ID]. This will be shared in the near future with the collections and technical services contacts at your institution, with more detailed set-up and troubleshooting instructions included.

 To enable Proxy setup, schools will need to do the following:

1. Configure your proxy to permit

1. http://www.psychotherapy.net
2. The customized institutional url provided to your collections and technical contacts: http//psychotherapy.net/stream/[Institution_ID].

2. Please modify the video library URL provided with your proxy prefix to create a working URL for your proxy setup.
3. If you are using another type of system to authenticate (IP/VPN) please ensure that you have given the URL provided to by psychotherapy.net, and that www.psychotherapy.net has the necessary permissions to enable users access to your video library.

DISCOVERY: Records are available via EDS, WCKB and WCD, Summon, and Primo. MARC records can be found here: https://www.psychotherapy.net/marc-full. Enable access according to your institution’s local catalog/knowledge base set up and discovery set up.

 TRAINING: Please see the attached feature optimization guide from Psychotherapy.net. 

 VENDOR SUPPORT: Please use the following contact for all inquiries (technical support, customer service questions, sales): customerservice@psychotherapy.net