Rights: Cost of the resource

Definition: Information about fees charged by those holding "rights in and over a resource."(DCMI, DC. Rights)
Obligation: Optional
Type of element: Restricted vocabulary

Entry guidelines

The information recorded for this element is intended as a rough estimate of the cost per student, of using the resource, which is comparable across FAILTE resource records only.

The cost of a resource is difficult to record and to describe to the end user because, where a charge is made, there is often more than one deal on offer, with different charging mechanisms. The different charging mechanisms also make it difficult to compare the costs involved with different resources.

To overcome this, the cataloguer should estimate the minimum cost per student. The cost of a single user licence would represent this cost, or a calculation for a multiple user licence, based on a typical class size of 30 students. This means finding the cost of delivering the resource to more than one user, and dividing this by 30 to arrive at the cost per user. (Please note: It may be necessary to ascertain that a multiple user licence would cover 30 student users or more.)

All calculations should take into account any discounts offered for UK HE institutions.

The cost will be described by one of the values that have been set for this element, listed below:
Unknown,
Free,
<20,
20-50,
50-100,
100-500,
>500

The values all refer to the cost in pounds sterling and are intended as a rough guide to the end user.