2. Agenda
The agent’s challenge
From one-directional to multiple choice
Pressures in the value chain
Swets answer
Examples of our changing role:
Accucoms
Mendeley
3. Traditional Agent
Publisher - an
additional channel to
Library - the provision of
market plus the
a single point of
provision of
purchasing content and
administration
related services
efficiencies and services
around the selling
transaction
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4. Is the traditional agent role still attractive?
Is there still value in administrative ✔ Libraries
services?
? ✔ Publishers (large vs. others)
Is the market opportunity big ✔ Market Size
enough?
Growth
Are current capabilities good enough ✔ Print
for the future?
✖ Electronic/Big deals
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5. Are there additional opportunities?
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6. Simple value chain in the old world
Simple flow from user to content
•User goes to library
•Library goes to subscription agent
•Subscription agent goes to publishers
9. Same same, but different:
It’s still about the content and the user
but with new players, new models, new expectations, new rules
……and still changing
10. Institutional pressures
Increasing international competition
Reducing funds for research
Increasing student numbers and decreasing government funding
Competition from commercial accredited institutions
Pressure on “objective value” scientific progress
Publish or Perish
Government that wants to steer
25. LibServ
Corporate
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26. M E N D E L E Y IN S T IT U T IO N A L
E D IT IO N P O W E R E D B Y
S WE TS
27. Patron using tools that are not “library borne”
Social media:
Loud
Uncontrolable
Come and go
Copy-right?
Library
Quite
Controlled
For the long term
Understanding the rules
How to marry the needs of the user with the fundamental role of the library?
32. Mendeley Desktop
Mendeley searches within the full text PDF.
You can read, annotate, highlight or add notes to the
PDF document without opening Adobe Acrobat.
34. Mendeley & MIE
• MIE is a module developed on top of Mendeley’s exisiting
end-user model. Created in partnership between Mendeley
and Swets.
• Signing up for the Mendeley Institutional Edition powered
by Swets can strengthen the role and value of the Library in
the digital workflow of research. Not only across your
institution but internationally as well.
36. MIE – Institutional Groups
View most published and
most read users within your
community
37. MIE – Analytics
Real time analysis and reporting
You can also view the Top Journals
and Highly Read Documents
38. MIE – Analytics
Quickly uncover gaps in your collection
If your library has a valid
subscription to a title, or it is freely
available (OpenAccess) then users
can save the document to their
personal libraries.
If access is unavailable, the user can
save a reference (Metadata) to their
library instead.
39. MIE – Analytics
View which titles your members are publishing in
and at what level.
41. MIE – Analytics
Use the Social tab to view all groups
across your Institution
42. What Swets/Mendeley does
Providing a solution for both the library and users which:
• Is in line with the needs of the student and researcher
• To organize articles
• Share them (collaboration)
• Find what’s relevant, new and trendy
• …and adds value to the library
• Service which can be offered and supported by the library
• Which gives insight in the usage of content
• As well as in the popularity of researchers at the institution
43. Concluding
The eco-system of publishing and content delivery is changing drastically
The days of old business models and guaranteed positions are over for all
There is great opportunity for organizations that deliver value in a new e-world