1. CIC E-Publishing Venture COC-11 Portland, Oregon April 19, 2002 Tom Peters

2. CIC Member Universities Chicago Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Michigan State Minnesota Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Purdue Wisconsin-Madison

3. The Problem North American publishing: $25 billion industry with a 0.1 percent growth rate in 2001. 92 university presses had $408 million in sales in 2001 (1.6 % of all North American book sales). In 1999, they had nearly $412 million in sales. University presses publish 10-15 percent of all new book titles each year. Marshall Poe’s assessment of the situation.

4. Opportunities: Why Are We Doing This? We see mainstream opportunities for new types of scholarly communication and e-publishing. Traditional scholarly publishing is experiencing severe fiscal constraints. For-profit quasi-scholarly e-book aggregators are not meeting all our needs.

5. Why Are We Doing This? (cont.) One strength of the CIC: infrastructure to facilitate collaboration among various campus units. (To avoid replicating the situation where large for-profit publishers control large chunks of scholarly publishing.)

6. CIC E-Publishing Venture A cooperative, consortial e-publishing prototype being developed by the libraries and presses at 11 CIC member universities. The prototype will include approx. 55 scholarly frontlist books from the 11 presses. The project could expand to include other types of scholarly content.

7. Core Assumptions If we build it, scholars and students will come and use it. Libraries and presses bring complementary areas of expertise. Students and scholars want and need e-content in multiple file formats.

8. Core Assumptions (cont.) E-content is related to p-content –E-sales may cannibalize p-sales –E-sales may complement p-sales –E-content may stimulate p-sales (NAP) –The relationship between e-sales and p-sales will evolve over time. Facilitate the “will to read in print”

9. General Goals and Hypotheses Sales will be primarily to libraries and consortia, but perhaps also to individuals. One access route will be the existing CIC Virtual Electronic Library (VEL). Recover the direct costs.

10. Phase 1 Goals 1.A working prototype for searching, distributing, and presenting scholarly e-books. 2.A scalable, sustainable business model for the worldwide distribution of this content. 3.(Can this group of presses and libraries collaborate in this manner?)

11. Possible Revenue Rivulets Sales to libraries and consortia –Discounts for: CIC member libraries Consortia Two-year colleges School libraries and public libraries? Sales to individuals SRDP and/or POD?

12. Possible Revenue Rivulets Separate Pricing for: –The entire aggregated content –Content clusters By topic By publisher By type of publication Coursepacks and other repurposing and reorganization of the content Links to press sales catalogs and OPACs

13. Questions Federation of not-for-profit scholarly e- publishing ventures? What changes in the production process? How should research universities undertake e-publishing? Impact of Open Archives Initiative, Public Library of Science, Budapest Open Access Initiative, and others?

14. Contact Information Tom Peters Committee on Institutional Cooperation 302 E. John Street Suite 1705 Champaign IL 61820 tpeters@cic.uiuc.edu (217) 244-9239 www.cic.uiuc.edu