Southern and Northern consortia Similarities and dissimilarities

1. Southern and Northern consortiaSimilarities and dissimilarities Lluís M. Anglada i de Ferrer Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya 10th E ICOLC (Munich, 20-22 Oct 2008)

2. Schema • What is SELL? • SELL consortia compared to Northern/Central Europe consortia • South is different?

4. SELL members • SELL = Southern European Libraries Link • France (Couperin) • Greece (Heal-Link) • Italy (CIBER, CILEA, SBBL) • Portugal (B-On) • Spain (BUCLE, CBUA, CBUC, CBUG, CSIC, Madroño) • Turkey (ANKOS) • 1st meeting: 2001 Thessaloniki, Greece • http://www.heal-link.gr/SELL/

5. SELL offers its consortia members a platform to: • promote the special requirements of its members to publishers • draw common policies • support other fields of cooperation • discuss and learn

6. SELL Statements • 2001: • “Why some libraries and consortia are paying too much for e-information” • 2002: • Statement on VAT • 2004: • “New pricing model of Elsevier for ScienceDirect”

7. Schema • What is SELL? • SELL consortia compared to Northern/Central Europe consortia • South is different?

8. Consortia studied (2006) • SELL (12) • Portugal, Spain (6), Italy (3), Greece and Turkey • Central and Northern Europe (14) • Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Germany (2), Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands (2), Norway, Poland, UK

12. Databases

13. Journals

14. South versus Northor Big countries versus small ones Consortia versus buying clubs Staffed consortia versus virtual ones With central money versus whithout Only universities or research centres also Libraries alone or working with the administration

15. Schema • What is SELL? • SELL consortia compared to Northern/Central Europe consortia • South is different?

16. SELL members share some common problems, such as: • English as 2nd language is not as common as in other non-English-speaking countries • Educational system is quite different from the Anglo-Saxon model • Weak purchasing power due to very inadequate budgets • Poor tradition in library cooperation • Not a very relevant role of the libraries within the university

17. Why some libraries are paying too much? • Model prices based on ‘nordic’ countries: • FTE not applicable • Campus licenses not applicable • University teaching based on lectures and studying notes • Universities play an occupational role for young people • Low knowledge of English (even among the university population)

18. Model prices • Based on: • Historical expenditure • Simultaneous users • Bands • Big – very big • Medium • Small – very small

19. Banding: pattern is common • Very few are big or very big • Some are medium • Most are small or very small

20. USA Large More than 15.000 Medium 5.000 to 15.000 Small Less than 5.000 Spain Large More than 50.000 Medium Nearly 35.000 Small Less than 20.000 ... but sizes are not comparable

21. SELL future • New names • Branding

22. CLAIMS Consortia of Libraries Around and In Mediterranean Sea C A L A M A T A Consortia of Academic Libraries Around Mediterranean Together Acting New names

23. We are seriously considering to use blue and red as our brand