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The National Library of Technology signed, through the CzechELib project, the first transformative agreements with the option of publishing in Open Access with the publishers Emerald Publishing and Taylor & Francis Group. Read more.

82 % of the amount allocated to purchase of Electronic information resources has been used up and all the funds that were not used up will have to be returned to the subsidy provider (MEYS). Read more.

NTK has managed to sign contracts with all the EIR providers for the period of 2019-2022. Read more.

National Library of Technology managed to successfully finish all the negotiations of license conditions concerning EIRs for the period 2018 – 2022. Read more.

As of July 1, Ing. Jiří Krňák took up his duties as a director of CzechELib. Jiří Krňák is an experienced manager. In past he has held key management positions in various companies such as Lego, Inter-Informatics, Howden or Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Among other agenda he dealt with public procurement proceses. Mr. Krňák graduated from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU in Prague. Read more.

Members of the Monitoring Committee of the Operational Programme Research, Development and Education have heard the report on progress of the CzechELib project presented by Jiří Burgstaller, the Chief Project Manager. Read more.

License Agreements recently concluded with several publishers and exclusive suppliers of EIRs specify conditions for access and use of hundreds of thousands of titles by the member institutions of CzechELib. Read more.

The CzechELib Director Jan Černý decided to resign on his post for personal reasons. Read more.

Let us welcome two new members of the CzechELib Expert Council – Mrs. Barbora Katolická and Mr. Jiří Polách. Read more.

Primarily CzechELib intended to negotiate directly with EIRs publishers. However, quite a few publishers decided to use their agents to represent them. Read more.