SELL Meeting, June 2010, Bordeaux

SELL 2010France Country Report

Catherine Etienne & Mariette NaudCatherine Etienne & Mariette NaudConsortium Couperin Couperin

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AGENDA

•Context – 2009

•Negotiations

•Various projects

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I – CONTEXT (2009)

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• Higher education : 1 501 255 students, 10 190 permanent researchers

• CNRS : 11 600 permanent researchers, 7 600 non permanent researchers (PhD students, postgraduates, associated researchers…)

• Schools : 7 000 researchers, 230 000 students

• Public spendings for STI

• 100 millions €

• Including 50 millions for high education libraries (+30 millions for associated libraries)

GENERAL DATA

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• No significant cuts in the budgets of academic institutions so far

• But no significant decrease from the publishers either

IMPACT OF THE CRISIS ?

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• Created in 1999 by 4 universities

• 31/05/10 : 210 members

• 78 schools

• 1 French institute abroad (Greece)

• 2 agencies

• 1 hospital

• 13 « grands établissements »

• 24 research organisations

• 91 universities

MEMBERS OF COUPERIN

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II - NEGOTIATIONS

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• 64 negotiators, from all types of institutions, volunteering to negotiate.

• At the moment :

• 147 « active » resources

• 126 have been (re)negotiated in 2009

• About 150 resources not negotiated anymore / waiting to be negotiated / not successfully negociated.

GENERAL DATA

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STATISTICS (2008)

• 203 members

• 131 negotiations

• 16 grouping of orders (ACS, Proquest Databases, BSP + Econlit, CAIRN, CNRC, Dalloz, Le Doctrinal, Science Direct, IOP, Jstor, Lamyline, LexisNexis, SciFinder Scholar, Springerlink, WOS, Wiley).

• Number of contracts :

• Average number of contracts per institution :

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

1172 1548 1803 1968 2096

0 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50

16,7% 42,3% 26,7% 9,5% 3,5% 1,5%

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SCIENCEDIRECT

• Negociation at the moment

• Help of JISC Collections / training with professional negotiators

• A negotiation concerning many institutions : Couperin’s members, CNRS, CEA, INRA, INSERM…

• Hard to communicate on this specific negotiation as only two meetings have taken place so far

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III- VARIOUS PROJECTS

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• Necessity to renovate the consortium’s communication

• Collaboration between the two departments

• Four profiles of connexion/information : administrator, negotiator, contact, member of the monitoring groups

• A modernisation of the appearance of the Website

• Confidential documents available only after authentification of the visitor

• Documents for the negotiators

A NEW WEBSITE

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MONITORING GROUPS

• MESR used to supervise monitoring groups

• Reorganisation of the ministry : Couperin volunteered to supervise the groups

• Open to everybody, including non members of the consortium

• Five themes : humanities, health and life sciences, sciences and technics, politics and law, economics.

• Goals :

• Provide new arguments to negotiate the resource

• Be a help for librarians when chosing to buy the resource or not

• Be a place of discussion and exchange

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E-BOOKS WORKSHOP

• A very active department

• Produces many documents, statements, and provides help and support to negotiators of E-books

• Two days of meeting in Lille in May : « What services, for what uses? »

• An E-books comparer on Couperin’s website

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• 25-28 october 2009

• 130 colleagues

• 29 countries

• Positive feedbacks

ICOLC IN PARIS

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• Participation in the organisation of the conference of Berlin 7

• Redaction of the national report on the state of Open Access in France with INIST and MESR (more tomorrow !)

• Participation in the director board of SPARC Europe

• European project Open AIRE

• Partnership with the University of Lund for the DOAJ since May 2010.

OPEN ACCESS

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• A more detailed presentation tomorrow

• Writing of the book of specifications

• Call for tender at the end of April 2010

• A pilot starting in September 2010

THE ERMS

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PROJECTS FOR 2010-2011

• ERMS

• Feedbacks on the new Website

• OpenAIRE

• Monitoring groups

• Efficient training of the negotiators

• Creation of a statistics workshops