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Publishers' Licensing Services
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Publishers' Licensing Services’ (PLS) mission is to provide efficient and effective copyright and licensing services to support publishers in providing access to their content. A not-for-profit organisation, PLS has been serving the collective interests of publishers since 1981 and has distributed almost £42m to publishers from collective licensing in 2022/23. It is owned and governed by four publisher trade associations including ALPSP.
PLS provides a range of rights management services and resources, including:
- PLS Account Manager – a free online account management service for publishers signed up to PLS
- PLSclear – an online permissions service
- Access to Research – providing free access to academic research to public library users
- Rights & Licensing Hub – a resource supporting best practice in rights management.
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Association of University Presses
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The Association of University Presses represents a global community of more than 160 nonprofit publishers whose shared mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. AUPresses members are active across many scholarly disciplines in the humanities, arts, and sciences, publish significant regional and literary work, and are innovators in the world of digital publishing. The Association holds intellectual freedom, integrity, stewardship, and equity and inclusion as core values.
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Longleaf Services
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Created by university presses for university presses, Longleaf is a non-profit business dedicated to providing outstanding and efficient publishing solutions.
Longleaf uses economies of scale and skill to offer presses significant benefits and savings that they would not be able to realize on their own. We also provide a means of sharing and leveraging the vast experience of the individual institutions across the entire group.
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MDPI
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MDPI world’s leading open access publisher, we believe open science accelerates progress and serves the global good. Our mission is to empower researchers to share their findings openly and widely, making knowledge accessible to all.
Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. MDPI’s 500+ diverse, peer-reviewed, gold open-access journals are supported by more than 115,000 academic experts who support MDPI’s mission, values, and commitment to providing high-quality service for our authors. MDPI’s articles are freely available and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
