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Joint Information Systems Committee

The Future of JISC e-Resources

Dr Pat Crocker, JISC Head of Services Management Group

JISC Conference 2005


This Presentation

Background and Context

JISC Collections Strategy

JISC Financial Strategy for e-Resources

The ‘Business’ Operation



Background and Context

JISC involvement in the acquisition of e-resources since early 1990s

Initially bibliographic datasets

Now

– bibliographic data sets

– full text (e-journals, e-books)

– maps

– images

– animation

– moving image

– sound

Initially for HE community

Now

– HE, FE and Specialist Colleges



Landmark

1:2500 scale map

1890 Map of postcode area

of Birmingham

ICC



Digimap

2005

Map of postcode area of Birmingham ICC



Census

Map Data

1981

% of children aged 0-5 years in lone parent

families in Birmingham



Census

Map Data

2001

% of children aged 0-5

years in lone parent

families in Birmingham



Images from the Education Image Gallery showing the motor industry

1939 – 1980

©Getty Images




Mission

“To negotiate for, and, where appropriate, to license inclusive and quality assured

electronic materials that will provide the JISC community with a range of resources

to support education and research”



JISC collections strategy

Key Components Build a portfolio of e-resources informed by

user needs, subject area and format

Develop and implement sustainable business models

Provide subsidy to support innovation

License, in perpetuity, digital archives

Develop and implement standard terms and conditions for licensing agreements

Work with institutions to promote, embed and support the use of e-resources

Collaborate with other relevant agencies



Building a portfolio of e-resources

HERITAGE INNOVATION

MATURE SPECIALIST



Definition:

Digitised images of rare and inaccessible material such as journal backfiles and books

Rationale:

Heritage collections allow researchers, teachers and students unlimited access to primary sources only available at a limited number of libraries

Example:

Early English Books on-line

HERITAGE



EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS ONLINE



INNOVATION

Definition:

A resource that enriches the student experience in a new way, or provides for creative teaching or original research.

Rationale:

Planned subsidy is sometimes required so that the JISC community can try out innovative resources

Example:

Kar2ouche



KAR2OUCHEAn interactive environment for a range of subject-specific content titles



SPECIALIST

Definition: – Such resources provide high value to those teaching

or studying in a particular discipline. The nature of these resources sometimes means that they are expensive at the normal commercial rates.

Rationale:– JISC funded negotiations and licensing can ensure

that such resources are available to the JISC Community at subscription prices that would not usually be possible.

Example:– JSTOR



JSTORComprehensive archive of scholarly journals digitised

back to the first issue published through to 5 years

from the most current published issue.

An extract from the article

‘A Disguised Reminiscence

in the First Movement of

Mozart's G Minor Symphony’

by Eric Wen

Music Analysis

© 1982 Blackwell Publishing



MATURE

Definition: – Well established resources, which may have started as

subsidised innovative or specialist resources which now ‘cost recover’.

Rationale:– The JISC will continue to negotiate for resources that are

‘mature’ that can ‘cost recover’ and where the JISC’s continued involvement ‘adds value’.

Example:– NesLi2 –Electronic Journals.



NESLi2 - Electronic Journals

Subscription rates for electronic journals from tenpublishers selected by the community on an annual basis for negotiation by JISC




Evaluating and prioritising individual e-resources

8 format-based working groups

Identify appropriate, accessible and economically viable e-resources.

9 virtual subject groups

Provide product evaluation advice.

HE and FE institutional representatives

Trial negotiated products and indicate likelihood of take up



General Principles

JISC administrative costs fully subsidised

Cost of content and delivery recovered by subscription income, with subsidy where appropriate

Content licensed from publishers and sublicensed to institutions on an ‘opt-in’ basis

Subscriptions charged to sublicensed institutions

Subscription charges banded

JISC Financial Strategy for e-resources




Licence Agreements

JISC Model Licence Agreement

Normally, 3-5 year fixed term

NesLi2 e-journals, 1 year fixed term

Digital archives, in perpetuity




Use of subsidy

Capital payments for licences in perpetuity for digital archive content

Tapering annual contributions to fixed term subscriptions for innovative or specialist content and delivery

Capital or recurrent payments for essential delivery service developments




Some Examples Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Archive

(All articles published by the RSC from 1841 to 1996)

- licence in perpetuity

Infotrac(Full text coverage of 40 English language newspapers from 1980 to date)

- 3 year fixed term licence

UK Satellite Image Data Service(Orthorectified satellite images of the UK from 1988 to 2001)

- licence in perpetuity

Web of Science(Citation indexes for Science, Social Science and Arts and Humanities)

- 5 year fixed term licence



The Business Operation

In-House

Community Consultations

Collections Negotiation and Procurement

Collections Contract Management

Publisher Payment Management

Collections Promotion

Out-Sourced

Specialist Negotiations e.g. NesLi2 e-journals

Sub-licence Management

Subscription Invoicing and Collection

Web site management

Content hosting and serving by data centres

Content hosting and serving monitoring



The Business Operation2003/4

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Subsidy c. £ 3m

Turnover c. £ 10m

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The Business Operation

Objectives for 2005-2007

Establish a Content Procurement Company to provide a business framework that will secure the long term sustainability and will provide opportunity for the continued growth of this acquisition activity.

To collaborate with other relevant agencies in providing access to collections

To take a lead in developing and implementing standard terms and conditions for the licensing of e-resources.

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