Transcript Agenda - Casalini Libri

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Lee Pit Teong
CEO iGroup Asia Pacific Ltd
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iGroup Introduction
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Started in 1984
Offices in 13 Countries across AP
Over 300 Employees
Competency in
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Content Distribution
Library Automation
Infomation Management
eLearning Implementation
Electronic Publishing
Consultancy
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Explanatory Notes
• Territory – does not include Australia, NZ,
and Japan
• Content – Not aggregated Journals (Fulltext
Databases)
• eJournal Sales History – Started eJournals
Consortia Sales (eg. Academic Press for
Taiwan, Korea, Singapore from 1999)
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Background of eJournal Sales
• Started Promoting eJournals in 1999
• Over Two Years to prep the customers
• Sales only came about after 2001
• Lots of Issues for delay in Sales
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First Time Working as Consortia
Confusion with Pricing Models
Administration Issues (IP Mgmt, etc.)
Auditing Issues (no physical media)
The “big deals” instead of Individual Titles
Consortia Agency
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China – CALIS
HK – JULAC (joint university libraries advisory committee
Korea – KESLI, KERIS
India – INDEST, INFLIBNET
Malaysia – PERDANA
Taiwan - CONsortium on Core Electronic Resources in Taiwan
(CONCERT)
SriLanka – University Grant Commission (UGC)
Thailand – iGroup Organised Consortia (informal)
Philippines – iGroup Organised Consortia (informal)
Vietnam – iGroup Organised Consortia (informal)
Singapore – Plus8
Unlike the West, most are Open Consortia in Asia
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Consortia Models
Depending on
• Publisher Policies (Non Cancellation, Base +, etc.)
• Existing Print Revenue Consideration
• Nature of the Organization (Academic,
Commercial, etc.)
• Perpetual License (Archive Access)
• Repository (Local Archive – LOCKSS)
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Challenges
• Fighting for the same budget
• Low to Mid Income Countries have
insufficient funds to buy everything
they need
• Publishers are keen to reach out to the
2nd and 3rd Tier institutions
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Opportunities
• Research Community is Growing
• 2nd and 3rd Tier institutions are
recognizing the importance of these
scholarly publications
• More Government bodies are
providing special funding to support
the consortia
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Growth of eJournal Sales
• 100% Growth from
2002 to 2004
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370000
• Largely Attributed to
New Publishers
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• Sales Growth for
Existing Publishers
Publishing Landscape (Applied and Life Sciences) –
Papers published in Western Journals by Local Authors
USA
6513942
Japan
4257284
China
984326
7000000
India
524063
6000000
Australia
352876
Korea
322505
Taiwan
168334
Estimated Number of Papers Published by Local Authors
(Source - Chemical Abstracts)
5000000
4000000
Hong Kong
45606
3000000
Singapore
38916
2000000
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24346
Thailand
21051
Malaysia
10095
Vietnam
5432
Philippines
5048
Indonesia
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Estimated Growth of Published Research from Asia
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Average of 5% Compounded Growth Annually
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Q&A
Thank You
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