Description
The United States Air Force intends to issue a Firm-Fixed-Price Purchase order to Springer Nature for access to SpringerLink and Nature.com Complete publications. The period of performance will be from the award date to 31 December 2026. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) require access to these publications, which include scientific, technological, and medical journals, books, and reference works. The key characteristics of the required product include full-text online access to journal articles, search interface, individual account creation, IP authentication, and librarian-accessible usage data.
* The product must provide full-text online access to journal articles in optics and physics.
* The product must include a search interface with numerous primary categories and ability to perform keyword and other specialized topical queries.
* The product must allow individual account creation for saved searches and alerts.
* The product must provide IP authentication for institutional multi-user, single campus subscription.
* The product must provide librarian-accessible COUNTER-compliant usage data for searches and downloads.