Our services
In addition to managing collective licensing, we offer additional rights management services for publishers
PLS Permissions
PLS now offer a variety of services to help you make permissions straightforward.
Whether you need to seek permission to
reuse someone else’s content, or if you
are receiving requests to have your content
reused, PLS can help.
- Boost potential permissions revenues
- Manage permissions more efficiently
- …look into outsourcing permissions altogether
Your online account
PLSe is our account management service, available free to all publishers that sign up with PLS.
It gives you:
- Control: Manage your titles and licensing options.
- Intelligence: Analyse and plan ahead using our detailed reporting tools.
- Convenience: All the tools you need to manage your involvement in collective licensing, in one online account.
Enabling access to academic articles
PLS delivers Access to Research, a service which provides library users with 15million+ academic articles.
- The Finch Group, a committee convened by
the UK government, asked publishers to explore how access to publicly funded research could be expanded. - One key recommendation for major journal publishers to grant public libraries free access to academic articles.
- Access to Research is the outcome of this recommendation.
Copyright Infringement Portal
We support the Publishers Association's Copyright Infringement Portal to tackle online piracy.
Worried about your titles being copied illegally? Want to do something about it? Then the Copyright Infringement Portal can help.
- The Copyright Infringement Portal is an online service that helps combat digital piracy.
- It helps identify infringing links and streamlines the takedown process.
- Publishers signed up with PLS get a 25% discount.
Text & data mining
We offer PLSclear TDM to help make text & data mining easier for publishers and researchers.
PLSclear TDM is a digital clearing house for TDM requests, using a simple request form developed by a group of leading publishers.
- It is for any researcher undertaking text mining
- It can also be used by any publisher with content researchers wish to text mine.
- It is particularly useful for smaller publishers who are unfamiliar with text and data mining.
Copyright Hub
The Copyright Hub is governed by a small executive board, of which Sarah Faulder, CEO at PLS is a member.
The Copyright Hub aims to make
the licensing of content easier.
- The aim is to increase the relevance of copyright to everyone who creates and everyone who makes use of content.
- Copyright says that creators own their work and can decide what happens to it. The Copyright Hub helps make both things work the way the internet works.