Site license initiatives in the United Kingdom: The PSLI and NESLI experience

This article examines the development of site licensing within the United K ingdom higher education community. In particular, it looks at how the press ure to make better use of dwindling fiscal resources led to the conclusion that information technology and its exploitation was necessary in order to create an effective library service. These conclusions, reached in the Foll ett Report of 1993, led to the establishment of a Pilot Site License Initia tive and then a National Electronic Site License Initiative. The focus of t his article is these faced, which included off-site access, definition of a site and perhaps most importantly, the unbundling of print and electronic journals.