Consortial Agreements and Cooperative Collection Management

Kansas State University Libraries participates in a number of consortial agreements and cooperative collection management programs with other research libraries in order to enhance collection development and document delivery. Affiliations include:

Center for Research Libraries

• Generous interlibrary loan policies – will lend extensive collections for extended periods
• Special purchase plan for targeted materials
• Selected specialties – foreign language science and technology serials; South Asia and Southeast Asia serials; domestic, ethnic, and foreign newspapers in print and film; foreign dissertations; university catalogs; primary and secondary textbooks; major microform sets; U.S. state and foreign government publications

Greater Western Libraries Alliance

• Cooperative purchase of electronic resources at discount
• K-State Libraries participate in the GWLA purchase of IEL and ACM electronic materials.
• Change agent in efforts to return control of scholarly publishing to the academy – SPARC and BioOne partner
• Rapid document delivery and resource sharing among the 30 member libraries

Kansas Regents Libraries Database Committee

• Cooperative purchase of electronic resources at discount for Regents University libraries in partnership with the Kansas State Library and public library system
• K-State Libraries participate in the purchase of many electronic databases, reference tools, full-text databases, and electronic books
• Library partner with KanEd

NSF EPSCoR Science Information Group

• Cooperative purchase of scientific, technical and medical resources to enhance information delivery to scientists eligible to participate in the National Science Foundation’s EPSCoR program
• K-State Libraries purchases the Kluwer and Blackwell electronic journal packages through this source.

SPARC

• Alliance dedicated to returning science to scientists by encouraging reform of scholarly communications
• K-State Libraries purchase a number of SPARC-endorsed scientific journals in support of reform.