beth r bernhardt electronic resources librarian unc greensboro
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Looking and Reacting to Consortium Statistics
Beth R BernhardtElectronic Resources Librarian
UNC Greensboro
Carolina ConsortiumStarted 2004 with meetings and signed first
license in 1/1/2005Members are any College, University or
Community College in North and South Carolina
Membership is freeBuyers ClubStarted with three big deals and have over
70+ deals schools can join into
CC Big Deals with spend > 250,000ACS Cambridge University PressElsevierOxford University PressSageSpringerWiley-Blackwell
CC Big Deals with Spend < $250,000BEPress (bought by deGruyter) (19 CC
schools)Brill (22)Duke (12)Elsevier College Editions (14)IGI Global (3)Mary Ann Liebert (56)
Statistical CollectionCollected COUNTER statistics for all schools
and most of the big journal deals.Looked at usage statistics from 2009, 2010
and 2011Pulled total pricing informationCombined PDF and HTML full text views Calculated Cost Per UseLooked at price change and usage change
between 2009-2011
Cambridge University PressHas one of the worst Cost Per Use (CPU) By far the lowest overall useLow rate of usage increasePoor license termsMust keep takeoversMost subscribe to launches at 50% list price2.7% of spend and 1.9% of use
Cambridge University Press -Example Small private schoolWill pay about $5300 for 20132011 = 48 uses; $103 CPU24 titles used; 272 unusedNo titles used more than 6 times3 inexpensive titles account for 13 of the 48
uses. They Cost for these 3 titles would be $526.
Cambridge University Press – UNC System school
Will pay about $7200 for 2013 big deal2011 data= 457 uses, $14.95 CPU3 year change = +15% price; -41% use80 titles used; 316 unusedOnly 10 titles used 10 times or moreThose 10 account for 243 of 457 uses (53%)Direct subs to those 10 for 2013 cost $13,063
2011 title by title usageTitle 457 price total
Development and Psychopathology 104 1 541 541
Public Health Nutrition 25 2 1280 1821
Parasitology 22 1943 3764
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 20 4654 8418
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society 17 503 8921
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 1055 9976
International Psychogeriatrics 10 889 10865
Journal of Social Policy 10 569 11434
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society 10 395 11829
Psychological Medicine 10 10 1234 13063
Elsevier Freedom CollectionAnemic growth over 2 years (0.8%)2011 CPU 3rd best of 6Price Change 19%, Usage change .8%29.5% of cost, 30.3% of use in the CCHighest average costVery high number of Highly Used Titles Least number of schools – but the Highest
use
Oxford University PressHas lowest CPU 28 schools5.2% of cost, 12.3% of usePublisher is flexible with schools that have
financial hardships
Sage2nd lowest CPU 6.5% of cost; 10.8% of use18 schools
Springer38 schools, most of any large CC big deal19.7% of spend, 17.8% of usage2nd lowest inflation rateDeal structure makes it hard to not belong to
the deal
Wiley-BlackwellBiggest CC spend33 schools, 2nd most of any large big deals2nd highest CPU 36.4% of spend, 26.8% of use8% price increase , 15% increase in use
WB – Big system school2011 paid $50,870; 1186 uses345 titles used; 1817 unused21 titles used 10 or more times; their sub
cost is $43,078Those titles account for 375 uses (32%)
Next Steps to Developing a CC Plan Pull 2012 statsAdding 2012 cost/use dataPrioritizing
PublishersCosts/issues
Negotiating with publishersCoordinating with UNC systemCollective action vs coordinated action vs
individual actionMake recommendations to individual schools
about adding/dropping deals
Thank You
Beth BernhardtElectronic Resources LibrarianUNC [email protected]