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Spain : Library consortia activity in 2003-04. Napoli, 14.05.04. Chart. Present situation Spanish coordination CBUC ’s activities. Present situation. 6 regional consortia (40 universi tie s, 60% out of the whole )
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Spain:Library consortia activity in 2003-04 Napoli, 14.05.04
Chart • Present situation • Spanish coordination • CBUC’s activities
Present situation • 6 regional consortia • (40 universities, 60% out of the whole) • The aggregatorsestablish virtual consortia where there are no regional ones • Ministry of Education’s help for the ISI-WoS license
Licences • Tendencyof all consortia to license the same products • Arisal of new problems: • Journal movement between publishers • Statistics analysis • Link maintenance • Internal cost distribution formulae
Chart • Present situation • Spanish coordination • CBUC’s activities
Spanish Coordination • First meeting between consortia in 2002 • 6 meetings up to now • Will for coordination and joint licensing • Up to now: Wiley
Nationwide licenses • Difficulties • Regional financing of universities • No state money • Licenses expire in different years • Different approaches (p+e or e!) • Distance and difficultymeet frequently • Mistrust (?)
Coordination aims 2005 • Elsevier (many problems due to a new pricing model) • KLI (because of the Kluwer partition into two groups) • Compendex • Cell Press • VAT reduction
A restraint to coordination • 60% universities belong to a consortium • The rest • Some have joined purchasing coalitions • Some have joined aggregators consortia • Two possible models • Coordinationof theexisting consortia • Nationwide purchase through the Rectors’ Conference
Chart • Present situation • Spanish coordination • CBUC’s activities
CBUC’s activities 2003-04 (1) • Union catalogue • 2.500.000 records • 5.000.000 documents • ILL: 40.000 movements • Training, translations, reports
CBUC’s activities 2003-04 (2) • Licenses • Contracting to the value of about 6 M euros • Tendencynot to contract much more (up to 8-9 M euros) • Survey about e-journals usage • To be published soonin D-Lib (June)
CBUC’s activities 2003-04 (3) • E-theses • Over 1.600 • Hosting offer to the rest of Spanish universities • OAI compliant • Catalan e-journals portal in project • Decision to adopt Dspace as the software for the institutional repository