Beth R Bernhardt Electronic Resources Librarian UNC Greensboro

Carolina Consortium

 Started 2004 with meetings and signed first license in 1/1/2005  Members are any College, University or Community College in North and South Carolina  Membership is free  Buyers Club  Started with three big deals and have over 70+ deals schools can join into

CC Big Deals with spend > 250,000

 ACS  Cambridge University Press  Elsevier  Oxford University Press  Sage  Springer  Wiley-Blackwell

CC Big Deals with Spend < $250,000

 BEPress (bought by deGruyter) (19 CC schools)  Brill (22)  Duke (12)  Elsevier College Editions (14)  IGI Global (3)  Mary Ann Liebert (56)

Statistical Collection

 Collected COUNTER statistics for all schools and most of the big journal deals.

 Looked at usage statistics from 2009, 2010 and 2011  Pulled total pricing information  Combined PDF and HTML full text views  Calculated Cost Per Use  Looked at price change and usage change between 2009-2011

Cambridge University Press

 Has one of the worst Cost Per Use (CPU)  By far the lowest overall use  Low rate of usage increase  Poor license terms  Must keep takeovers  Most subscribe to launches at 50% list price  2.7% of spend and 1.9% of use

Cambridge University Press -Example

 Small private school  Will pay about $5300 for 2013  2011 = 48 uses; $103 CPU  24 titles used; 272 unused  No titles used more than 6 times  3 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 deal  2011 data= 457 uses, $14.95 CPU  3 year change = +15% price; -41% use  80 titles used; 316 unused  Only 10 titles used 10 times or more  Those 10 account for 243 of 457 uses (53%)  Direct subs to those 10 for 2013 cost $13,063

2011 title by title usage

Title 457 price total Development and Psychopathology Public Health Nutrition Parasitology 104 25 22 1 2 541 1280 1943 Journal of Fluid Mechanics 20 4654 541 1821 3764 8418 Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society Behavioral and Brain Sciences International Psychogeriatrics Journal of Social Policy Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society Psychological Medicine 17 15 10 10 10 10 10 503 1055 889 569 395 1234 8921 9976 10865 11434 11829 13063

Elsevier Freedom Collection

 Anemic growth over 2 years (0.8%)  2011 CPU 3 rd best of 6  Price Change 19%, Usage change .8%  29.5% of cost, 30.3% of use in the CC  Highest average cost  Very high number of Highly Used Titles  Least number of schools – but the Highest use

Oxford University Press

 Has lowest CPU  28 schools  5.2% of cost, 12.3% of use  Publisher is flexible with schools that have financial hardships

Sage

 2 nd lowest CPU  6.5% of cost; 10.8% of use  18 schools

Springer

 38 schools, most of any large CC big deal  19.7% of spend, 17.8% of usage  2 nd lowest inflation rate  Deal structure makes it hard to not belong to the deal

Wiley-Blackwell

 Biggest CC spend  33 schools, 2 nd most of any large big deals  2 nd highest CPU  36.4% of spend, 26.8% of use  8% price increase , 15% increase in use

WB – Big system school

 2011 paid $50,870; 1186 uses  345 titles used; 1817 unused  21 titles used 10 or more times; their sub cost is $43,078  Those titles account for 375 uses (32%)

Next Steps to Developing a CC Plan

 Pull 2012 stats  Adding 2012 cost/use data  Prioritizing  Publishers  Costs/issues  Negotiating with publishers  Coordinating with UNC system  Collective action vs coordinated action vs individual action  Make recommendations to individual schools about adding/dropping deals

Thank You

Beth Bernhardt Electronic Resources Librarian UNC Greensboro [email protected]