Does this work for consortia?

Yes! We have a number of consortia that use Unsub, including JISC (Joint Information Systems Committeearrow-up-right) and CRKN (Canadian Research Knowledge Networkarrow-up-right). We also have groups of institutions that use Unsub that are are not official consortia, but are, for example, most of the universities in a small country.

There are a few different Unsub set up scenarios to fit different use cases involving groups of institutions:

  • Central consortium dashboard, with individual institutional dashboards for each consortium member

  • No central consortium dashboard - only individual institutional dashboards for each consortium member

A few notes about consortia:

  • The consortium is usually the purchasing agent

  • Each subscribing institution that is part of the consortium needs to have their own dashboard

  • For a consortial dashboard, not all members of a consortium have to subscribe to Unsub. For example, if a library consortium has 20 members, even if only half of them (10) subscribe to Unsub, that is no problem at all

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