Could – should – must consortia deals be expanded outside university centers? 7th SELL Meeting Madrid,

Something forbidden but that everybody wants... What is it? Quiz 1

Forbidden Causes price increases It’s unsustainable You buy what you don’t want Favours monopolies It’s a librarian’s maneuver to go against OA Etc., etc.,etc.

Why does everybody want it? Because -access to the whole publisher’s e-journals collection has created very complete information environments -it’s been achieved at an affordable cost and, sometimes, with new money -non previously subscribed e-journals are used, when accessible -interdisciplinary landscape of sciences makes it necessary

Who are for consortial deals? Only universities? Other institutions are asking today to join in (for instance): -Research centres -Hospitals -Public administration services And others will ask in the future, like: -National libraries -Scientific societies -Public libraries -School libraries (teachers) -...

Quiz 2 Same picture? Rubens Tiziano painted the first one you saw (and it’s at Museo del Prado)

Now, are big deals always the same? Usually they are all x all -But also some x some Usually based on previous expenditure -But also minimum fees are used Usually interdisciplinary content -But also very specialized content (Lippincott, for instance)

Expanding Big Deals From all the universities in a region to Other institutions in the region All the citizens in the region Problems (for publishers) Possible income loss No suitable princing models Advantages (for publishers) Simplify management issues New money to their pockets

Catalonia (an example) 10 universities ( users) research centers (different kinds) 20 hospitals 500 public libraries school libraries (?) inhabitants What’s the price for my mother’s access to Elsevier e-journals?

Solutions Step by step -Tiring -Expensive -Inefficient Global deals -OK in most of the cases -Maybe not always -Simplify management issues

Expanding Big Deals (University) consortia have: -Experience -Economy of scale We could do it -We should do it -We must do it Who else?

Price model for expasion Tipical price model (e-journals) -Previous expenditure + e-access surcharge A possible model: -Expansion to all research centres -Previous expenditure + e-access surcharge or -10% of consortia expenditure -Idem for all hospitals