NYSHEI is dedicated to state advocacy on behalf of the public and private academic and research libraries of New York State.  Our vision is for all New York state students, faculty, entrepreneurs, researchers, and small businesses to have access to qualify information which stimulates learning, academic and applied research, and economic advancement.

Our top public policy concerns are:

Clinical Information Resources Access

Patients and their families desire and deserve health care providers to be well-educated in the best and most effective clinical practices available.  By coordinating the acquisition and dissemination of evidence-based, clinical information resources more health care providers gain access to the latest scholarship.

CIRA will leverage the buying power of New York’s academic and research libraries to expand collections, promote access, and lower costs.

Open Access

NYSHEI works to promote open access.  On behalf of our members we draft and promote legislation in New York to secure taxpayer access to publicly funded research and oppose federal efforts to roll back advances in open access.  Read more.

Procurement Transformation

Synchronizing the procurement approach for all information resources will foster greater collaboration, increase buying power, and thus lower cost for everyone.  By recognizing that information resources are a commodity, rather than a service, New York will help all libraries gain access to desired information resources.

Coordinated Collection Development Aid

New York has not altered the formula determining coordinated collection development aid for academic and research libraries since 1984.   Lacking even inflationary adjustments, CCD aid has fallen in both real and relative terms.   NYSHEI seeks a modernization of the formula, permanently linking the formula to changes in the consumer price index, and the funding that meets the statutory levels of aid.

Testimony: Assembly Hearing of Funding Public Libraries, November 2011

Excelsior Information Infrastructure

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2020 Vision

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