TDNet: E-Journals Management & Access Presentation to:ICOLC April 23, 2001 Newport, Rhode Island Presentation by:Asher Sofrin CEO, TDNet Ltd Aliza Friedman VP, TDNet Ltd Michael Markwith President, TDNet Inc

Today ’ s Discussion Points  Company Background  The Service  Enhancements  Pricing  Summary

April 2001

The Teldan Group

TDNet, Inc.  US Office established and Incorporated Feb 14, 2001  West Chester, PA  Experienced staff  Leadership Advisory Board  Primary TDNet Servers located in DC  Existing sales & support Infrastructure (Distributors)

What is TDNet?  Customized E-Journals Access and Management System  Locally controlled (INTRANET)  Universally Connected (Internet)  Vendor neutral (Agent or Aggregator)  ALL E-journals included

TDNet Developed for Librarians  Libraries struggling with e-journal management issues  Libraries investing money, time & talent to monitor and manage e- journals on the web  Consortia purchasing shared resources  Consortia seeking flexible solutions: Centralized; De-centralized; Hybrid

The Service E-Journal Management

TDNet Modules  Basic Module:  Based on the TDNet database, e-journal sites are located and linked to the organizational intranet site. Access information is provided based on customer’s arrangements.  Database (Site) Maintenance Service:  Weekly updating URLs, Obtaining access rights & adding/omitting links.  ETOC Updating Service:  Weekly updating of ETOCs onto local servers, installing an Intranet search mechanism.  Personal profiles (push technology) – alerting and current awareness purposes.

Journals in Your TDNet  Your library’s E-subscriptions (with full text access)  Your Print subscriptions only w/E-TOCS  Titles NOT in your collection

Customized Solutions  Customer decides:  Collection of titles displayed  Data displayed for users  Hosting (local or TDNet servers)  Document delivery options  Link solutions – per customer’s arrangements with aggregators, publishers or local storage  Includes all e-journals

Practical Applications  Updates – All links updated daily – customer receives weekly updates  Retrieval at Article and Journal level  Flexibility – TDNet files can be exported for easy OPAC integration

Article Linking  Thousands of journal titles already linked at article level.  CrossRef (DOI) links – will be added soon.  Additional technologies  SFX discussions already ongoing with ExLibris  URN based on market, technology and customers’ readiness.

Administrative Tools  Unlimited SDI profiles/current awareness managed by users and or administrators  PRIVATE ZONE  Locally controlled Statistics: Monitoring e-journals usage  Local administration control: updates, add and/or delete titles

E-Contents Planned Enhancements MilestonesFeature 60 installations in 6 countries Offices in US, UK, IT, IL, JA, AU Electronic Journals Q OPACs & Z39.50 Databases Q E-books & e-Proceedings Q Free Internet/ Deep Web Q Other Databases (Extranets)

Enhancement: Z39.50 Databases

Pricing

Pricing Philosophy  TDNet is annual subscription  Price Based on:  Number of unique titles  Number of sites

More pricing philosophy  Additional (minor) price considerations:  Publishers / Aggregators (discounts for major ones)  Duplications (Groups)

Pricing summary  Per title fee from $23 to $6  More titles, less $ per title  Significant discounts for pre- June commitment

Consortia & Multi site Pricing  One list / many access sites:  Per title charge  per access site tbd  Separate Lists – One purchase:  Per list, per title  discount (10%-30%)

US Consortia Pricing Model Price/library Price ($) # of Titles $ 14,000 $14,0001,000 Single Institution $ 9,800 $98,000 ($140,000 less 30%) 10,000Consortia (separate lists & sites) $ 5,200 $52,000 ($42,000 for titles + 10k site fee) 10,000 total 6,000 unique Consortia (central site w/separate lists) Case Details: 10 libraries; 1,000 titles each

Another Case Study: 30 Library Members: 10,000 unique titles 10 Libs 1,000 titles  10,000 unique titles = $60,000  Cost per Library: $ 2,000  Per Site fee for libs with less than 1,000 titles (.5k)  Total Cost =$2,500 per library  Per site fee for libs with more than 1,000 titles (1.5k)  Total cost =$3,500 per library

Summary  Customized solution  Comprehensive e-journal holdings management & access  User statistics  Local Administration and Control via Intranet  All E-content possible

…..thank you And time now for more grilling and/or additional questions for Aliza or Asher