Professor Brian Norton:

It is access to library resources, both physical and online. It is publications which emerge from universities and research laboratories globally, both books and other media. The supplier aggregates from publishers. The theory is that the aggregation enables one to receive the best deal from a range of publishers. There are a number of ways of doing this. We now have another supplier of the same service. We are also in the final stages of joining the Irish research libraries consortium which achieves the same service. Essentially, it is seeking to deal with a very broad range of publishers. An aggregation supplier is there to achieve the best deal across a range of publishers.