JISC Collections - Negotiating e-licences

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JISC Collections

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Negotiating e-licences)

JISC CollectionsLorraine EstelleCEO JISC Collections

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A bit about JISC Collections

Funded by JISC to negotiate licence agreements on behalf of all UK higher and further education institutions and research councils

We negotiate licence agreements for a wide range of online resources

– Journals

– Databases

– Geospatial material

– E-books

– Multi-media


What are the benefits

By providing a single point of negotiation we provide benefits for publishers in terms of efficiencies, these benefits transfer to academic libraries in terms of lower prices

By providing a single point of negotiations we bring the combined buying power of all the academic institutions – thus we are in a stronger negotiating position than any one institution

Because we negotiate on behalf of so many we can insist on the use of our model licence, this means

Libraries have one type of licence to manage not many

Because we negotiate from a position of strength we are able to insist on more favourable terms than the publisher would otherwise offer ~ or an individual institution could negotiate


Some facts and figures

We delivered over £25million in annual efficiency gains in 2008/09

We delivered £8.7 million in annual efficiency gains through the NESLi2 and NESLi2 SMP programmes

There are no price increases for 70% of renewals we negotiated in 2008/2009

We negotiated annual opt out clauses for all renewals and new agreements

We started with the year 2007/2008 and are pleased to report that most collections are being well used. For example, between September 2007 and August 2008, over 2million articles were downloaded from the Oxford Journals Archive. An average price per download is 58p

But it is not all rosy Procurement of licensed content from monopolies is tough ~ especially when we cannot cancel ~ the 30%

who did not agree to 0% increase are the largest of the publishers, and those with content that cannot be substituted

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The Scottish Higher Education Digital Library – a shared library forScotland

In the first scheme of its kind in the UK, and working closely with the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL), we negotiated e-journal agreements with three leading academic publishers on behalf of all higher education institutions in Scotland.

– Cambridge University Press

– American Chemical Society

– Springer

What is different about SHEDL?

Why did it work?

– What are the benefits for publishers?

– What are the benefits for institutions?

Can we extend the model to include other sectors?


Working together – some of the challenges

Whole collections or individual titles

Definitions of the “Authorised User”

Access Management

Budget cycles

EU Procurement processes

Demand driven ~ not supply driven


Working together – some of the potential benefits

Widest possible access and dissemination of information and knowledge

Efficiencies in the licensing process

Potentially increased buying power

Not paying for the same people twice – (e.g. doctor who can access the same resource from the NHS from his university and from the public library)


Looking forward

The scholarly information market place is unique and presents unique challenges:

• Each journal is unique and has not substitute

• The move to electronic has not made the process of scholarly publishing less expensive

• Library budgets have failed to keep pace with increasing outputs and as scholarly outputs continue to increase, and with the potentially dramatic impact of countries like China and India, this problem too can only get worse.

• A significant number of libraries still require print copies of the journals they purchase, although in a 2009 ALPSP survey 91% of respondents wanted to move more material to electronic only and it is a prerequisite for considerable system-wide cost savings– estimated to amount to £983m globally (RIN, 2008)

Much of our work in 2009-2010 is focused on addressing these issue


Thank you for listening

Lorraine Estelle

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