Slicing and Dicing: consortial Paperstats at SCELC
Are they any use? Price per use comparisons...
1. Hazards of price-per-use comparison in e-journal management Jason S. Price , Ph.D. Claremont Colleges’ Libraries Los Angeles, California Are they any use? Plenary Session 4 30 th Annual UKSG Conference, 16-18 April 2007 University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
If you get the reference of this poster to the car named the ‘General’ Lee, then the US has had a worse affect on UK culture than I thought possible… Another haz attending a talk by a guy Commercial vs Society Broad verus narrow China Academic Journals LOTS of content, but as in Chinese expect low demand
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On the theme of negative impacts of the US on the UK… I’d say this one is very specific, though Glad don’t have to put into words… Outline of rest of talk
But first, a definition and the magic number… March 2002 Release 2 Without it we couldn’t even discuss this Collaborative effort of librarians publishers & intermediaries founded on well respected industry initiatives
Big deal Lock-ins & Combined Subscriptions
For the same publisher pkg in the same year…
Not exactly red herrings…
Significantly different? What metric for use?
An option…
Elsevier (22%) and Ebsco (28%) partnered with COUNTER ( Publisher/package? Journal? Journal year? Article? Ignoring or Overemphasizing PPU by journal Should depend on question
Scholar – browsing may require use
At least among academic libraries… Two reasons not to give up: Swapping Cooperative vendors
80-20 Rule
Based on title by title use stats
Kakorams
Majority of collection comprised of added titles (at small fraction of list price) Simple answer: if not all of them, then the ones we use the most Pre-packed – Bad with the good, problem of breadth, OR you can have all these titles that other institutions subscribed to as of 5 years ago
According to counter Post-analysis pending
Gorey Details Switch gears to individual library Within a package & only subscribed titles (by definition) Those that have the highest price per use Use multiple years of Data
Gorey Details Switch gears to individual library Within a package & only subscribed titles (by definition) Those that have the highest price per use Use multiple years of Data
Gorey Details Switch gears to individual library Within a package & only subscribed titles (by definition) Those that have the highest price per use Use multiple years of Data