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The Power of Consortia: A UK Perspective
Hazel Woodward
Presentation to Informatico Medicata Conference, 17-18 September 2009, Budapest
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What is JISC?
 The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is funded
by all of the UK University and College funding bodies
 JISC's activities support education and research by
promoting innovation in new technologies and by the central
support of ICT services. JISC provides:
– A world-class IT network - JANET
– Access to electronic resources – JISC Collections
– New environments for learning, teaching and research
– Research funding for digital technology innovation
– Advisory and consultancy services
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JISC Collections
 Established as a mutual trading company in 2006
 Members include all UK higher & further education (HE &
FE) institutions and Research Councils (over 180 members)
 National centre for the licensing and procurement of digital
content to support education and research
 Best pricing and best terms & conditions for the best content
 In 2009, savings to the JISC community from JISC
Collections activities are estimated at £43 million
JISC Collections
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JISC Collections
 Aims – Save time and money through central licensing and
negotiation that leverages buying power and avoiding
duplication of effort
– Widen access to online content through best value pricing
of subscription resources and the central procurement of
content
– Help institutions manage the complexities of licensing and
develop capacity within the sector to improve licence
management
– Funding research to develop innovative systems & services
for academic libraries
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Licensing e-resources
 Currently managing over 120 e-resource agreements including -
– NESLi2
• 36 agreements for e-journals
– JISC Collections
• Over 80 agreements for online databases, reference materials,
multimedia resources and e-book collections
– UK National Academic Archive
• Over 20 archives licensed in perpetuity and available freely to
all members
 Working at all academic levels and with all subject areas
 Manages over 5,500 subscriptions.
 12 members of staff
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NESLi2 – National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative
 NESLi2 – Large publishers
– Elsevier
– Springer
– Nature
– ACS
– Oxford Journals
– Currently 20 agreements
 NESLi2 SMP – Small and Medium
Sized Publishers
– Brill
– Karger
– Berg
 16 agreements and growing
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Database Agreements
 Agreements for Bibliographic, A&I,
Full Text, Reference materials,
Geospatial, E-Books and other
digital content
 In January 2009 issued first ITT for a
Framework Agreement – 90 proposals
 Web of Science, Scopus, British
Education Index, Embase
 Oxford Reference, Cambridge
Companions Online, Literature Online
 Ordnance Survey, Hydrospatial,
Geology
 Times Digital Archive, Electronic
Enlightenment
 T&F e-books, Knovel, Morgan &
Claypool
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UK National Academic Archive
 Content available free to all UK HE,
FE and Research Councils
 Early English Books Online
 Eighteenth Century Collections Online
 18th – 20th Century House of Commons
Parliamentary Papers
 RSC, IoPP, ICE, ACS, OUP, Brill, T&F
Journal Archives
 Historic Map Data
 Web of Science Backfiles
 And more…
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JISC Model Licence
 JISC model licences since mid-1990s
– Used with all JISC Collections and NESLi2 agreements
– Allows institutions and their users to get the best value from resources
through flexible terms of use that offer stability and security to both users
and providers
 The JISC Model licence is updated annually to take account of changes in:
– The business environment – experimenting with new business models
– The scholarly environment – VLE’s, reuse of learning materials
– The information environment – changes in access management
technologies, preservation requirements etc
 Aim is licensing developed by the education sector for the
education sector with terms that allow the education sector to get
on with the business of education
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Not just about licensing and negotiation…
 Projects and reports that review the current environment and look to
meet future requirements of teaching, learning and research
– national e-books observatory project
– e-books for FE
– a comparative study of e-journal archiving solutions
– JISC Usage Statistics Portal
 Providing tools to support institutional use and acquisition of
electronic resources
– Academic Database Assessment Tool
 Supporting licensing requirements of JISC Programmes
– JISC Digitisation Programme (over £20 million funding)
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Licensing in a time of economic uncertainty
 Deep Global Recession
 Poor UK public finances
– The Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills is
expected to deliver additional £400 million of savings in 2010-11
– Freeze, if not cuts, in public spending
 The impact in the public sector will be over a number of years –
even if the wider economy recovers
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The impact on academic libraries – UK
 An orderly retreat from the big deal?
– Jill Taylor-Roe’s survey indicated that in 2010 institutions intend to
take the following measures to cope with the economic crisis
• Request more funds from the University – 27%
• Cut the book fund – 18% (down from 23% this year)
• Cut the serials fund – 20% (up from 12% this year)
• Cancel big deals – 17% (up from 4% this year)
Taylor-Roe, J., ‘To everything there is a season’ : reflections on the
sustainability of the ‘big deal’ in the current economic climate, Serials,
22(2), July 2009
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The impact on academic libraries - Global
 ICOLC Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on
Consortia Licences
“current crisis [is] of such significance that we cannot simply assume that
libraries and publishers share a common perspective about the
magnitude of the crisis and the best approaches to deal with it”
 Following forecasts:
– Significant and widespread cuts in budget levels for libraries and
consortia
– Cuts will be prolonged
– Exchange rate fluctuations are complicating and/or amplifying the
impact
Full statement at:: http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/icolc-econcrisis-0109.htm
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Projects
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Project Aims
 License collections of e-books that are highly relevant to UK higher
education taught course students in four discipline areas:
– Business and Management studies
– Engineering
– Medicine (not mental health or nursing)
– Media Studies
 Evaluate the use of the e-books through deep log analysis and to asses
the impact of the ‘free at the point of use’ e-books upon publishers,
aggregators and libraries
 Transfer knowledge acquired in the project to publishers, aggregators
and libraries to help stimulate an e-books market that has appropriate
business and licensing models
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The largest study of its kind!
– 36 course text e-books freely
available to all UK HE
– Over 48,000 responses to
benchmarking surveys carried
out in January 2008 and in
January 2009
– Raw server logs have been
analysed to see exactly how
users discover, navigate and use
the e-books
– Case studies including focus
groups held at eight universities
– Library circulation and print sales
data has been analysed
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Findings
The findings from the study and the analysis of the print sales data
indicates that making available course text e-books free at the point of
use is not a threat to print sales revenue
– Students are using e-books in addition to the print they bought or
borrowed!
– New business models must account for the uneven use non linear
user behaviour
– Allow for convenience – 24/7 access and peaks of use
– E-books and print will co-exist
– www.jiscebooksproject.org
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Business Model Trials
A study on the management and economic impact of etextbook business models on publishers, e-book
aggregators and universities
 Aim is to create realistic, simple and sustainable business models using
real data from a range of access models
 Reviewed the current e-textbook business model landscape
 Selected a variety a trials following consultation with a range of
stakeholders
 The trials will take place over a full academic year
 The impacts on print sales, time and resource will be measured
 Take account of the uneven and non-linear use
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JISC Usage Statistics Portal
 Aim is to provide a one-stop-shop for all usage statistics
relating to JISC Collection e-resources
 Improve NESLi2 negotiations by providing thorough
understanding and reliable data about all consortia usage
 Allow libraries to benchmark their usage data
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The Knowledge Exchange
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Knowledge Exchange
 International collaboration between four countries: UK, Germany, Denmark,
The Netherlands
 Five resources offered:
– Wiley Blackwell e-books
– Multi-Science
– BioOne
– The ScientificWorld JOURNAL
– ALJC
 European tender procurement for a multi-national, multi-year deal for different
sorts of content
 Tender ahead of new, creative ideas and concepts from smaller publishers willing
to develop innovative business models
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Resources
Thank You
Presentation to Informatico Medicata Conference, 17-18 September 2009, Budapest
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