Looking and Reacting to Consortium Statistics

1. Looking and Reacting to Consortium Statistics Beth R Bernhardt Electronic Resources Librarian UNC Greensboro

2. Carolina Consortium • Started 2004 with meetings and signed first license in 1/1/2005 • Members are any College, University or Community College in North and South Carolina • Membership is free • Buyers Club • Started with three big deals and have over 70+ deals schools can join into

3. CC Big Deals with spend > 250,000 • ACS • Cambridge University Press • Elsevier • Oxford University Press • Sage • Springer • Wiley-Blackwell

4. CC Big Deals with Spend < $250,000 • BEPress (bought by deGruyter) (19 CC schools) • Brill (22) • Duke (12) • Elsevier College Editions (14) • IGI Global (3) • Mary Ann Liebert (56)

5. Statistical Collection • Collected COUNTER statistics for all schools and most of the big journal deals. • Looked at usage statistics from 2009, 2010 and 2011 • Pulled total pricing information • Combined PDF and HTML full text views • Calculated Cost Per Use • Looked at price change and usage change between 2009-2011

6. Cambridge University Press • Has one of the worst Cost Per Use (CPU) • By far the lowest overall use • Low rate of usage increase • Poor license terms • Must keep takeovers • Most subscribe to launches at 50% list price • 2.7% of spend and 1.9% of use

7. Cambridge University Press -Example • Small private school • Will pay about $5300 for 2013 • 2011 = 48 uses; $103 CPU • 24 titles used; 272 unused • No titles used more than 6 times • 3 inexpensive titles account for 13 of the 48 uses. They Cost for these 3 titles would be $526.

8. Cambridge University Press – UNC System school • Will pay about $7200 for 2013 big deal • 2011 data= 457 uses, $14.95 CPU • 3 year change = +15% price; -41% use • 80 titles used; 316 unused • Only 10 titles used 10 times or more • Those 10 account for 243 of 457 uses (53%) • Direct subs to those 10 for 2013 cost $13,063

9. 2011 title by title usage

10. Elsevier Freedom Collection • Anemic growth over 2 years (0.8%) • 2011 CPU 3rd best of 6 • Price Change 19%, Usage change .8% • 29.5% of cost, 30.3% of use in the CC • Highest average cost • Very high number of Highly Used Titles • Least number of schools – but the Highest use

11. Oxford University Press • Has lowest CPU • 28 schools • 5.2% of cost, 12.3% of use • Publisher is flexible with schools that have financial hardships

12. Sage • 2nd lowest CPU • 6.5% of cost; 10.8% of use • 18 schools

13. Springer • 38 schools, most of any large CC big deal • 19.7% of spend, 17.8% of usage • 2nd lowest inflation rate • Deal structure makes it hard to not belong to the deal

14. Wiley-Blackwell • Biggest CC spend • 33 schools, 2nd most of any large big deals • 2nd highest CPU • 36.4% of spend, 26.8% of use • 8% price increase , 15% increase in use

15. WB – Big system school • 2011 paid $50,870; 1186 uses • 345 titles used; 1817 unused • 21 titles used 10 or more times; their sub cost is $43,078 • Those titles account for 375 uses (32%)

16. Next Steps to Developing a CC Plan • Pull 2012 stats • Adding 2012 cost/use data • Prioritizing • Publishers • Costs/issues • Negotiating with publishers • Coordinating with UNC system • Collective action vs coordinated action vs individual action • Make recommendations to individual schools about adding/dropping deals

17. Thank You Beth Bernhardt Electronic Resources Librarian UNC Greensboro Beth_Bernhardt@uncg.edu