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UKSG 2005

Explore the complexities and issues surrounding big deals in academic publishing, including cost sharing, decision-making, and the difficulty of walking away. Discover how publishers and consortia navigate these challenges and the impact on libraries and users.

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UKSG 2005

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  1. UKSG 2005 All or Nothing: towards an Orderly Retreat from Big Deals?

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Problems • Lack of Flexibility • Cost Sharing and Cost Division • Decisionmaking within Institutes & Consortia • No Entry for countries with no substantial subscription track

  7. The Netherlands • Negotiations with Wiley, Springer, Elsevier • Current Agreements: full package, pricecaps ± 5 % • Ambitions UKB: + decrease increase + more value for money + more flexibility

  8. 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

  9. 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)

  10. 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

  11. 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!!

  12. Thank you

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