1. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 1 Walking away from the “Big Deal:” Consequences and Achievements Nancy J. Gibbs Duke University Nancy.Gibbs@Duke.edu

2. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 2 When December 2003 for the 2004 subscription year

3. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 3 Who TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK (TRLN) Duke University North Carolina Central University North Carolina State University University of North Carolina

4. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 4 Why TRLN Principles of Licensing Seeing an intractable situation for journal pricing during the next four years Feeling that STM publishers were taking a disproportionate amount of the electronic resources budget Declining/static budgets at state institutions Declining/static budgets at the private institutions

5. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 5 EXPENDITURE TRENDS IN ARL LIBRARIES 1986-2003

6. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 6 EXPENDITURE TRENDS IN DUKE LIBRARIES 1986-2003

7. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 7 What Big Deals Elsevier’s Science Direct –SHARED ACCESS ACROSS TRLN SHCOOLS –SPECIAL PRICING –CANCELLATION ALLOWANCE OF 1% THROUGHOUT LIFE OF CONTRACT FOR ALL SCHOOLS

8. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 8 What Big Deals Blackwell’s Synergy (the Science and the Humanities databases of journals) –COMPLETE ACCESS TO ALL TITLES IN DATABASE –NO CANCELLLATIONS ALLOWED

9. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 9 What we did to bring issues to users’ attention Campus newspaper articles about cost of electronic resources Web site presence Letters to the faculty Presentations to faculty and staff

10. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 10 How Consortially Support of the Chief Academic Officers on all campuses Support of the faculty Support of the library administrations Support of major undergrad- and grad- student groups Support of our periodical vendors

11. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 11 What we did to assist users CISTI Ingenta MetaPress Trip Saver (Enhanced Document Delivery Reference Linking (Sent users to discipline based subject databases rather than through Science Direct website for access to lost titles)

12. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 12 Consequences We lost shared access throughout the TRLN We’ve survived to tell the tale We paid more per title for our journals in 2004 We have more trouble keeping access active within these publisher packages

13. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 13 Consequences (contd) We have each re-negotiated our licenses with Elsevier on an individual campus level Only one institution has re-subscribed to the Blackwell’s product through another consortia deal

14. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 14 Achievements Collaborative decision Trust amongst our colleagues Educational effort on our campuses Decision to stand together Faculty felt empowered Reviewed all titles in both packages to adjust title list to campus needs Able to subscribe to new titles

15. UKSG Walking Away from the Bg Deal 15 Future issues Meeting with journal editors on our campuses Ongoing educational opportunities Discussing issues of open access and changing roles of scholarly publishing on each of our campuses