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Public values under pressure: libraries draw line at licence negotiations

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For the first time, a negative procurement opinion has been issued against a publisher of scientific publications. Not because of the price of the licence, but because the publisher does not have its privacy rules in order. The chairs of the licensing working groups of UKB and SHB explain how they arrived at the opinion.
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Google Workspace can be safely used in education

News
So reports the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) based on research by SURF and SIVON to the House of Representatives today. In recent years, SURF and SIVON investigated the data and…
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Procurement lawyer Monique Pellinkhof: "Creating a match is cool"

Story
Tenders tedious? Not for Monique Pellinkhof. She is senior procurement manager at GÉANT, the European association of research and education networks (NRENs). Currently, Pellinkhof is extremely busy with OCRE2024, the European tender for cloud services. "The international collaboration is hugely rewarding," she says.
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