Licence scheme participation

Commerical Reproduction Licence Schemes

CAL's Commercial Reproduction Licence Schemes currently include the corporate, document delivery, local government, press clipping, not-for-profit associations and funeral director licence schemes.

New Media Licence Schemes

CAL is working with an array of partners in the new digital technology and publishing sectors to develop and expand online use of our members’ works.

The partnerships have seen the development of a number of New Media Licence Schemes that promote compliant use of digital material and provide customers with easy access to a wealth of digital content.

CAL provides digital rights management for our members in the following schemes:

INFORMIT e-Library
Informit e-Library is a collection of online publications compiled and offered by RMIT Publishing. It is a subscription only service offering full text, cover-to-cover access to journals, monographs, conference proceedings, reports and other research materials.

INFORMIT Plus Text Databases

1.   APA-FT
Based on the Australian Public Affairs Information Service compiled by the National Library of Australia, this full-text database provides subscription access to articles in the humanities and social sciences. Full-text is available for material from 1995 onwards. A pay-per-view service was launched in 2004.

2.   AGIS Plus Text
Based on the Attorney-General’s Information Service, this valuable online resource provides subscribers with online subscription access to material of relevance to Australian law. Full-text is available for material from 1999 onwards. A pay-per-view service was launched in 2004.

3.  Meditext
Based on the Australasian Medical Index from the National Library of Australia, this medical resource features a range of Australian material additional to and included in Medline and is available via subscription. Full-text is available for material from 1995 onwards. A pay-per-view service was launched in 2004.

4. A+ Education
Provides access to articles from more than 130 Australian journals indexed in the Australian Education Index produced by the Cunningham Library at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

ACER's Complete Article Service 
CAL provides rights management services for the Complete Article Service offered and administered by the Cunningham Library of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

ProQuest Information and Learning
A partnership between CAL and ProQuest CSA has seen Australian journals, whose rights are managed by CAL, included into ProQuest's range of online databases.

New Online Content Models
CAL, in partnership with our members, is also developing a number of online content services to pilot new ways of distributing works in the expanding market. For further information about these schemes, pleaes contact CAL.


Why participate in these projects?

• Through these licence schemes CAL helps members find new markets and additional revenue streams.
• CAL provides publishers with an opportunity for distribution of their content in the expanding online marketplace.
• New technologies make it easier to digitally copy and exchange material without payment to copyright owners. CAL is a trusted partner in working to secure downstream benefits for the use of published works that would otherwise show no revenue returns.
• CAL negotiates with the major content aggregators on behalf of all participating members to achieve the best possible financial return. Acting for many individual publishers adds considerably to CAL's negotiating position. Hundreds of journals and thousands of articles are included.
• CAL monitors use and manages the collection and payment to all the individual participating members consistent with CAL's trusted distribution policies. 

Digital use in the corporate sector

The CAL corporate licence allows Australian businesses to use works owned by CAL members in return for a licence fee. The licence, known as CopyrightAccess, is designed to support the proper use and distribution of copyright-protected works in business and covers the digital use of works.

Please contact CAL's Member Services department if you require further information on your licence scheme participation. Phone 1800 066 844 (within Australia) or +61 2 9395 7600. Alternatively, you can complete the online membership enquiry form.