1. Learned Societies and Consortia Sally Morris

2. What is ALPSP? The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers ‘Shaping the Future of Learned and Professional Publishing’ 220 members from 20 countries Full members are all not-for-profit publishers

3. What’s the problem? The ‘big deal’ is a good thing for large publishers – and for users It’s not possible for small publishers who lack critical mass Licensing small numbers of journals is costly – in time and money – to both sides High quality, reasonably priced not-for-profit journals tend to lose out

4. What can ALPSP do to help? ALPSP provides information and advice through its website (www.alpsp.org) and publicationswww.alpsp.org ALPSP also organises seminars and other meetings to share information and discuss key issues With the size and spread of our membership, we could potentially bring together a critical- mass collection of journals

5. Information and advice General guidance on selling to consortia Model licence for consortia (based on PA-JISC/John Cox models?) Model pricing structure? (Anti-trust may make this difficult) Collection of links: Information about consortia Consortia contacts

6. Seminars and meetings Seminar on ‘selling to consortia’ in September 2000 Round table discussion (small NFP publishers) in February 2002 Round table discussion (librarians) in April 2002 Member survey late summer 2002

7. Feedback from publishers and librarians Publishers – smaller societies (and others) interested in combined collection Issues – licensing, hosting and particularly pricing Librarians – in favour of combined collection Issues – licensing, hosting and particularly pricing

8. Member survey (ongoing) 20+ publishers interested in participating 70+ journals Other content (e.g. statistical databases)

9. Purchase options Most favour offering all of the following options: Single collection of all journals Broad discipline-based collections Narrower subject-based collections Most are happy to allow alternative purchase methods as well: Regular single-journal licences Pay-per-view for individual articles

10. The issues: licensing Standard licence acceptable to almost all …but which? PA-JISC – adapted for consortia ( http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/ pa/licence/Pajisc21.html ) http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/ pa/licence/Pajisc21.html John Cox ( www.licensingmodels.com ) www.licensingmodels.com Liblicense (http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/standlicagree.html )http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/standlicagree.html Specially written None at all (simple terms & conditions on screen, no requirement to click)

11. The issues: hosting No clear preference: Hosted as at present, accessed separately Hosted as at present, accessed via single searchable interface Hosted and accessed via single intermediary

12. The issues: pricing models Underlying prices must remain publishers’ responsibility Majority favour ‘existing print spend plus’ Minority favour ‘discounted sub price x # of institutions in consortium’

13. Possible alternatives Publishers to indicate adherence to standard ‘ALPSP licence’ and/or pricing model Online directory of (or even gateway to?) NFP journals

14. Next steps for ALPSP Put together information and advice for website Discuss options with all interested intermediaries Finalise whatever solution is possible (Spring 2003?)

15. How you can help us Let us know what kind of solution you would prefer Provide information, links, contacts which we make available to members Work with us to make sure high quality, reasonably priced journals from NFP publishers don’t lose out! Contact me: sec-gen@alpsp.orgsec-gen@alpsp.org