Our deals are constantly changing and evolving. But at any given time, the Carolina Consortium has deals on over 100 products from more than 50 vendor/publisher partners. Current offers include ebook packages, streaming video, aggregators, primary resources, reference materials, journal "big deals", transformative deals, numeric databases, discovery tools, subscription agencies, chat reference services, and more. Any North or South Carolina library can participate in any number of deals.
The Carolina Consortium does not pay bills or sign licenses on behalf of member libraries. There are two main types of deals:
- Do It Yourself (DIY) deals
- Bulk Discount and Common Start Date Deals
If you are a member of the Carolina Consortium or a NC/SC library new to the consortium and are interested in the deals, please contact Carolina Consortium Leadership, who will provide you with the information you need.
If you are a member of the Carolina Consortium or a library in NC/SC and are interested to see which members are participating in the deals offered through the Carolina Consortium, please contact Carolina Consoritum Leadership who can provide this information.
Deal details such as title lists, costs, begin/end dates, and more are available to consortium members only. Currently members can access deals through the CC Google Drive. The CC recently received an LSTA Grant through the State Library of North Carolina to implement ConsortiaManager. Once the implementation is complete deal information can be access through ConsortiaManager. If you are having difficulty accessing the files, please contact Carolina Consortium Leadership for assistance.
The Carolina Consortium strongly supports Open Access because it ensures the broadest possible dissemination of high quality information. We are currently experimenting with several different OA models and would welcome the opportunity to build OA into more of our consortium deals. Current deals with OA components or discounts include:
- Annual Reviews - Subscribe to Open
- Cambridge University Press Journals - Uncapped Read and Publish
- Elsevier - Capped Hybrid Read and Publish Deal
- SAGE - Flat APC discount (Contact CC Leadership for Details)
- SpringerNature - Capped Hybrid Read and Publish Deal
- Wiley - Uncapped Hybrid and Capped Read and Publish Deal