The American Council of Learned Societies Humanities Ebook Collection is a collection of over 5,700 scholarly books, from over 125 publishers, sold as a subscription package to over 800 library subscribers. ACLS HEB is a collection curated by scholars for scholars; members of ACLS learned societies nominate books for inclusion, and Michigan Publishing licenses them and pays royalties to contributing publishers. ACLS HEB is unique among e-book collections in three ways:
- It is curated by scholars, for scholars;
- It is hosted on the open-source Fulcrum platform;
- The curation process has invested in unique and otherwise hard-to-access backlist content.
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The Platform - Fulcrum
The Fulcrum hosting platform was developed at Michigan Publishing with initial funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Fulcrum is a community-based, open source publishing platform that helps publishers present the full richness of research outputs in a durable, discoverable, accessible and flexible form from their authors. As a leading community-developed, open source platform for digital scholarship, Fulcrum offers features such as:
2023 Pricing
Annual Subscription
The subscription term is January 1 through December 31. Institutions can subscribe at any time and have their subscription cost pro-rated.
LYRASIS Membership is not required in order to participate in ACLS HEB.
Tier |
List Price |
Very Large Institutions |
$4,806 |
Large Institutions |
$3,461 |
Medium Institutions |
$1,858 |
Small Institutions |
$1,155 |
Very Small Institutions |
$675 |
Licensing
LYRASIS has negotiated a central license with the best possible terms. Participating institutions placing new orders will be asked to agree to abide by the terms at that time.
- Fulcrum Preservation Statement
- Unlimited simultaneous users
- Freedom from any Digital Rights Management (DRM)
- Free KBART and MARC records
- COUNTER-compliant statistics
- Enhanced discovery through partnerships with ProQuest, EBSCO and OCLC
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2022 Pricing
Annual Subscription
The subscription term is January 1 through December 31. Institutions can subscribe at any time and have their subscription cost pro-rated.
LYRASIS Membership is not required in order to participate in ACLS HEB.
Tier |
List Price |
Very Large Institutions |
$4,666 |
Large Institutions |
$3,360 |
Medium Institutions |
$1,804 |
Small Institutions |
$1,121 |
Very Small Institutions |
$655 |
Licensing
LYRASIS has negotiated a central license with the best possible terms. Participating institutions placing new orders will be asked to agree to abide by the terms at that time.
ACCESS LICENSE
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