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Can You Big Deal E-books? Maybe… OhioLINK’s Initial Experience and Investigations

Can You Big Deal E-books? Maybe… OhioLINK’s Initial Experience and Investigations. ICOLC Meeting Poznan, Poland September 30, 2005. Common Objectives: E-Journals and E-Books. Improve the amount of information delivered per monetary unit spent

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Can You Big Deal E-books? Maybe… OhioLINK’s Initial Experience and Investigations

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  1. Can You Big Deal E-books?Maybe…OhioLINK’s Initial Experience and Investigations ICOLC Meeting Poznan, Poland September 30, 2005

  2. Common Objectives:E-Journals and E-Books • Improve the amount of information delivered per monetary unit spent • Broad scale group-wide electronic full collection level access with print as a local option • Buy E and P in strategic combination • Control annual cost growth • Provide for annual economic breathing room to fit budgetary constraints

  3. Techniques that would be the different • Journal titles, prices, subscriptions, and spending more predictable…past is a good predictor of the future • Number of book titles, price, and purchases may vary widely each year…does the past tell us anything about the future? What does group purchase history say to us about aggregate and individual behavior? • Not likely to go e-only with books • Is technology ready for the investment…do we get the utility we need from e-books?

  4. Accumulated Book History Data • Imprint Years 98-03 – M Dekker, L Erlbaum, Kluwer, Oxford, MIT Press, SUNY Press, Wiley family, APA, Gale family, ABC-CLIO • Imprint year 04 - APA, Gale family, ABC-CLIO

  5. Generic Annual Formula • Number of books in annual license (Can be selected and adjusted to fit budget) • Multiplied by • Average price per book • Multiplied by • Agreed to C/T multiplier (varies by publisher-does not need to be static- can be renegotiated) • Equals annual E-license • Plus • Optional deep discount print copies

  6. OL and ABC-CLIO Reference Book/e-Book Big Deal Prototype • 402 titles spanning 4 annual waves • Loaded on OhioLINK site – perpetual use, no user limits • Common interface with other e-books/ literature • Use growing but limited- need critical mass • Print @ -60%

  7. How to divide the cost of an e-book license? • ABC-CLIO- as pilot used internal group formula (Student population based) plus central funds • What about based on share of historical purchases? …Like e-journals.

  8. Work in Progress Observations • Create parallel $$ based analysis with each publisher. Determine specific formula for each • Larger the publisher pool the more history can be used • Central funds maybe be key to sweeten the pot for libraries – reduce standard deviation and reduced flexibility • Central funds maybe be key to sweeten the pot for publishers – provide the extra needed to leverage access to all

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