jisc e books consortia project

JISC e-books consortia projectSCONUL annual conference and AGM 2013

Friday, June 21, 2013

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» To explore if there is an effective way to purchase e-books on a title-by-title basis for collaborative group of academic libraries:

› Would all books have sufficient use to provide value for all the members?

› How could such a collaboration be equitably funded?

› How much would the publishers charge for consortia purchase – and would they think they were getting a good deal (gaining revenue through more sales by providing a consortia discount)?

› How could such a scheme be managed?

The purpose of the project

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Max Planck Institutes

» Each Max Planck Institute can order single e-book titles according to its needs

» Pricing for the ordering institute is at factor 1 -- that means at the regular list price for that institute

» Provider invoices the ordering institute

» Access to purchased e-books is activated for the whole Max Planck Society: not only for the ordering institute but for all 80 institutes at no additional cost

Previous e-books consortia projects


» Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya (CBUC)

» “In 2009 We decided to create our own e-books big deal”:The basic idea:

– Choose 1

– Pay 1 (and CBUC will additionally pay 2)

– Get 9

» Total expenditure 130.000: € 50.000€ from members + 80.000€ from CBUC funds

» Average price per title and member = 12€ (standard price can be 50/60€)

Previous e-books consortia projects


» While the Max Plank and CBUC have trialed the model no analysis was done of usage, cost per usage and value

» Thus no evidence that sharing is a good idea!

Calculating the value


» E-books in the area of engineering

» 5 libraries: Cranfield University, Loughborough University, Brunel University, University of Southampton, University of Newcastle

» 7 publishers: Artech House Inc, Cambridge University Press, John Wiley & Sons Inc , Taylor & Francis Ltd, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Institution of Engineering & Technology, World Scientific

» 1 e-book aggregator: Dawson

Our project


» For the JISC Collections Consortia e-book Pilot each Participating Publisher has agreed to a Multiplier for consortia pricing. › This means that the Selecting Institution will pay the

Standard Fee and JISC Collections will pay the Multiplier Fees

› For example if the agreed Multiplier is 2, the Selecting Institution will pay the Standard Fee and JISC Collections will pay the Multiplier Fee equivalent to 1x Standard Fee

› If the agreed multiplier is 3, the Selecting Institution will pay the Standard Fee and JISC Collections will pay the 2 x Standard Fee

The Multiplier Fee


» Results at the end for Selecting Institutions

» 118 e-books bought

» 49 e-books not used

» 2608 acts of use

» £11680 total list price of e-books bought

» £4.47 cost per use

How it is looking so far


» Results at the end for Non- Selecting Institutions

» 18 e-books not used

» 2086 e-book uses

» 222 maximum uses of one e-book£16,753 total list price of e-booksused

How it is looking so far


» £23,619 total cost of e-books with the multiplier

» £83,765 total cost of e-books if bought separately at list price

» More analysis to follow … we will publish the full results in the autumn … watch this space!

The bottom line

jisc e books consortia project

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