Liam Earney

Liam Earney is Director of Jisc Collections, the unit of Jisc response for the licensing and negotiation of agreements for digital content on behalf of UK universities. Jisc Collections negotiated agreements covered approximately £108million of expenditure in 2015/16.

Liam has worked at Jisc since 2003, working on a wide variety of negotiations for higher and further education, the NHS, museums and public libraries as well as a number of projects concerned with open educational resources, IPR and machine readable licensing.

Since 2014, Liam has been very closely involved in the ongoing evolution of Jisc Collections’ approach to open access, in particular how its negotiations can best support the sector achieve its aims around pure gold, hybrid and green open access.