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ICOLC Conference Nashville 20 th September 2002 Keith Courtney Group Sales Director

Taylor & Francis. ICOLC Conference Nashville 20 th September 2002 Keith Courtney Group Sales Director. The Taylor & Francis Group Publishing activity Gordon & Breach integration Online sales offering. The Taylor & Francis Group. History Locations Imprints Subject Groups. History.

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ICOLC Conference Nashville 20 th September 2002 Keith Courtney Group Sales Director

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  1. Taylor & Francis ICOLC Conference Nashville 20th September 2002 Keith Courtney Group Sales Director

  2. The Taylor & Francis Group • Publishing activity • Gordon & Breach integration • Online sales offering

  3. The Taylor & Francis Group • History • Locations • Imprints • Subject Groups

  4. History • 1798 Richard Taylor launched Philosophical Magazine • 1852 William Francis, a chemist, joins Taylor • 1880Printers and Publishers to Royal Society, Astronomical Society, Zoological Society etc. • 1890 Pioneered abstracting journals with the launch of ‘Science Abstracts’ • 1936 Established as a private limited company • 1998 Had a great birthday party, floated on the London stock market, acquired Routledge • 2002 Publishing over 750 journals and 1800 books

  5. Locations • UK Corporate headquarters – London , Abingdon, Hove and Basingstoke • USA – Philadelphia and New York • Scandinavia – Oslo and Stockholm • Singapore • Sydney

  6. Imprints • Taylor & Francis • Carfax • Dunitz • Psychology Press • Routledge • Spon

  7. Subjects - STM • Biomedicine • Bioscience • Chemistry and Chemical Engineering • Computing • Engineering • Ergonomics • Remote Sensing/GIS • Physics

  8. Subjects – Social Sciences • Area Studies • Arts • Behavioural Science • Business and Economics • Cultural Studies • Education • Geography • Planning • Gender Studies • Law • Psychology/Sociology • Sports Medicine

  9. Subject Mix • STM 265 titles (35%) • Social Science/Humanities 485 titles (65%) • Total 750 titles

  10. Publishing activity • Publishing strategy • Pricing • Licensing • Archiving • Usage statistics • Linking • Electronic databases • Retro-digitisation • SARA

  11. Gordon & Breach • Background to acquisition • Primary objectives • Current state of play

  12. Online Sales Offering - 2003 • Background • Offer • Benefits • Concerns

  13. Background • Growth • Performance • Pressure to change • Cancellation threat • NESLI discussions

  14. The Offer • Self-selection • Maintain current spend/renewals • Cancellation allowance of 3% in value • Additional ‘online only’ titles @$150 each • Non-consortia members @ $170 each • Minimum order of 10 titles/$1500 • No substitutions • Includes access to archive

  15. Benefits • Value for money • Customer selects ‘wanted’ titles • Ease of selection process • Open to all libraries, consortia and others • Vendor relationship encouraged

  16. Concerns • No additional funds • Knowing what you want, ‘big deal’ benefit • Cross access – sharing resources • The flip model – cancel all print • Archive access after cancellation • What happens in 2004

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