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An insight into the opportunities and challenges

regarding e-Books and e-Resources at NMMU

11 September 2012

Presented by

Fiona Bester

Challenges / Opportunities

Collection development

• Reduced budget

• Ever increasing journal prices

• Decline of print

• Management can be messy

• Marketing / collaboration

• Big publisher deals can be cost-effective

• Electronic advantages / Expose collections / Collaborate on best practices

• New commercial product development, Ex Libris, OCLC, ERM


Access

• Security

• Technical requirements

• Lack of perpetual access

• Open URL failures

• Mobility

• Work with IT

• Just-in-time access is a priority

• Improve the data / Integrate with open web


Usability

• Disconnect between user & library priorities

• Problems navigating library websites

• Federated search

• What exactly is ‘usage’ and how to measure it?

• Googlelize it

• Provide users with the direction they need

• Ease of use / Discovery solutions, Ex Libris Primo

• Standards initiatives improving all the time / COUNTER

NMMU PERFORMANCE: No of papers published overall

SOURCE: InCitesTM, Thomson Reuters (2011). Report Created: 6 September 2012 Data Processed Dec 31, 2011 Data Source: Web of Science ®

NMMU PERFORMANCE: Impact of papers compared to global average


NMMU PERFORMANCE: Impact of subject areas compared to global average

SOURCE: InCitesTM, Thomson Reuters (2011). Report Created: 6 Sept 2012 Processed Dec 31, 2011 Data Source: Web of Science ®

NMMU IMPACT: Compared nationally in Environment/Ecology


NMMU IMPACT: Compared globally: Environment/Ecology

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WHERE TO PUBLISH? THOMSON REUTERS JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS

• DHET (Dept of Higher Education & Training) uses 3 lists for accreditation purposes: Web of Science (ISI), IBSS & South African Journal list

• Ranking agencies uses Web of Science data to calculate the ranking of institutions such as: Times Higher Education, Leiden University Ranking, Shanghai ranking agency, etc

• JCR uses Web of Science data to calculate the impact factor

Advantages of subscribing to JCR: • Allows you to objectively evaluate the world’s leading journals • Librarians can advise researchers where to publish • Librarians can evaluate the value of their research investment • Researchers can identify the most appropriate & influential journals • You can search for the top journals in a specific subject category

and compare journals within the subject category

WHERE TO PUBLISH? THOMSON REUTERS JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS

Journal Rank in categories

Journal Rank in categories

SANLIC (SOUTH AFRICAN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONSORTIUM)

Publisher deals can be cost-effective

Taylor & Francis SANLiC deal

• Maintain current subs

– Top-up fee of $14,811.00 (2011)

– Back file access 1997

– Top up fee of $15,329.00 (2012)

• Full Collection over 1,100 titles (ST Library and SSH Library)

TAYLOR & FRANCIS

List Price based on 2010 average increase of 7.57% ( The format NMMU currently has with T & F titles ( PRINT + ONLINE)

2010 2011 2012 2013

$33,573.00 $36,114.48 $38,848.34 $41,789.16

Please note, the increase above is based upon the average title increase from 2009 to 2010 (7.57%). List price increases

are set on individual titles each year, and these can be anything between 0% and 20% depending on the increase in

content for each publication. The figures above are just a rough estimate.

New SANLIC Offer (Now approved) Print and Online rates used

2010

2011 (5%

increase)

2012 (3.5%

Increase)

2013 (3.5%

Increase)

$33,573.00 $35,251.65 $36,485.46 $37,762.45 Total saving over three years

Savings $862.83 $2,362.88 $4,026.71 $7,252.42

TAYLOR & FRANCIS

Example of Price Increase on NMMU Core Subs if they opt for the new

SANLIC agreement Versus List price increases similar to 2009

New SANLIC Offer (Now approved) Online Only rates used

2010

2011 (5%

increase)

2012 (3.5%

Increase)

2013 (3.5%

Increase) Total saving over three years if you move from PRINT + Online

$31,940.00 $33,537.00 $34,710.80 $35,925.67 ONLINE ONLY + NEW SANLIC deal price-cap savings 2011-2013

Savings $2,577.48 $4,137.55 $5,863.49 $12,578.51

List Price based on 2010 average increase of 7.57%

2010 2011 2012 2013

$31,940.00 $34,357.86 $36,958.75 $39,756.53

Please note, the increase above is based upon the average title increase from 2009 to 2010 (7.57%). List price increases

are set on individual titles each year, and these can be anything between 0% and 20% depending on the increase in

content for each publication. The figures above are just a rough estimate.

SAGE

• Maintain current subs.

• Top-up fee:

– SAGE Premier 2009 = £ 6,900.00

– 515 journals = Total value £ 190,000.00

– 1999 – back file access

– SAGE Premier 2013 = £ 8,982.00

– 653 journals = Total value £ 251,000.00

Publisher deals

• Cambridge University Press

• Oxford University Press

• Wiley

• Maintain subs + add top-up fee

• Most univ have print + online

• Save more (about 10% - 12%) if change to online only

SCIENCES COLLECTION

• Complete collection – 37 journals, list price = $8,662.00

• Includes Physical Sciences, Biomedical/Life Sciences & Social Sciences. Available as separate collections

• Impact factor for journals range from 1 to 11

• 1st subject category: 18 titles

• 2nd subject category: 8 titles

• 3rd subject category: 4 titles

SANLiC Price = $6,295.00 – cancel subs

ECONOMIC COLLECTION

• 2013 collection: 3 journals, includes permanent data rights

SANLiC Price = $1,186.00

ELECTRONIC BACK VOLUME COLLECTION

• All available Science collection content from 1932 – 2007

• List price = $ 7,000.00

SANLiC Price = $5,950.00 once off

Annual Reviews

OECD

OECD iLIBRARY (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)

• Global knowledge base for OECD data

• Contains all books and papers published since 1998

• List price € 14,750.00

• Price = € 4,425.00 (70% discount)

IEA STATS

• International Energy Agency stats

• List price € 5,500.00, less 70% discount

• Price € 1,650.00

E-Book model

Perpetual access

Buy

Own content

Mostly no platform fee

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

RSC EBOOKS

• Nearly 1,000 books spanning 40 years

• Pricing: (40% discount on list price)

e-Books collection 2012 (1841 – 2012) £16,800.00

1968-2011 £13,370.00

2007-2011 £ 9,950.00

2011 Titles only £ 3,780.00

2012 Titles only £ 5,040.00

Some free content

E-Book model

Textbooks

Subscription

Concurrent user / unlimited access

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E-Books

Subject collections

www.MHeBookLibrary.com



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Conclusion

• Lots of opportunities & challenges

• Don’t be afraid of change

• Be critical & analytical

• Collection development: SANLiC offers

• Mathematics & Microbiology – research output lower Engineering

• Do you have the correct resources?

• Do they publish in journals with a high impact factor?

Thank you!