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UKSG 2005. All or Nothing: towards an Orderly Retreat from Big Deals?. Big Deals: what are we talking about?. Full Collection (Elsevier: Freedom Collection!) Subject Collections Cross-access arrangements E-access to Print collections E-only access to former Print collections.
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UKSG 2005 All or Nothing: towards an Orderly Retreat from Big Deals?
Big Deals: what are we talking about? • Full Collection (Elsevier: Freedom Collection!) • Subject Collections • Cross-access arrangements • E-access to Print collections • E-only access to former Print collections
Publishers and Big Deals • Publishers have been remarkably flexible in defining new models, to ensure that: + Actual spending levels are not decreasing + Pricecaps are above inflation • Publishers mainly are defending existing cashflows
Seduction and Addiction 1 • Big Deals are attractive for: + Users: never find a closed door + Librarians: easy to handle and no embarassment of choices + Publishers: no intermediairies; guaranteed turn over; broad visibility
Seduction and Addiction 2 • Big Deals are addictive because: + It’s what users expect from Internetsources: always an answer, everything for free + Change is difficult to realise; optimal value for money; unattractiveness of alternatives from a value for money perspective
Problems • Lack of Flexibility • Cost Sharing and Cost Division • Decisionmaking within Institutes & Consortia • No Entry for countries with no substantial subscription track
The Netherlands • Negotiations with Wiley, Springer, Elsevier • Current Agreements: full package, pricecaps ± 5 % • Ambitions UKB: + decrease increase + more value for money + more flexibility
Results 1 • Wiley and Springer: new full package deals, differnt combinations of lower pricecaps, more content, more participants - NB 1. Not more Flexibility!! - NB 2. Discussions with Wiley about pay per view
Results 2 • Elsevier: no lower pricecap, but more flexibility: • pay more OR get less • Still negotiating on more content (back files) and more participants (Polytechnics)
Other Remarks • Libraries (and Publishers!) find it difficult to walk away from Big Deals • As soon as publishers offer choices, consortia tend to disagree • Consortia show little awareness of the benefits of mutual behaviour
Yet another Complication: getting your figures right • Important but hard to Perform, because: + different combinations of P and E + effects of E-only discounts + effects of higher VAT + effects of costdivision models • To be noticed: some publishers have different business units for P and E!!