Can You Big Deal E-books? Maybe

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Can You Big Deal E-books?MaybeOhioLINKs
Initial Experience and Investigations

• ICOLC Meeting
• Poznan, Poland
• September 30, 2005

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Common ObjectivesE-Journals and E-Books

• Improve the amount of information delivered per
  monetary unit spent
• Broad scale group-wide electronic full collection
  level access with print as a local option
• Buy E and P in strategic combination
• Control annual cost growth
• Provide for annual economic breathing room to fit
  budgetary constraints

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Techniques that would be the different

• Journal titles, prices, subscriptions, and
  spending more predictablepast is a good
  predictor of the future
• Number of book titles, price, and purchases may
  vary widely each yeardoes the past tell us
  anything about the future? What does group
  purchase history say to us about aggregate and
  individual behavior?
• Not likely to go e-only with books
• Is technology ready for the investmentdo we get
  the utility we need from e-books?

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Accumulated Book History Data

• Imprint Years 98-03 M Dekker, L Erlbaum,
  Kluwer, Oxford, MIT Press, SUNY Press, Wiley
  family, APA, Gale family, ABC-CLIO
• Imprint year 04 - APA, Gale family, ABC-CLIO

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Generic Annual Formula

• Number of books in annual license (Can be
  selected and adjusted to fit budget)
• Multiplied by
• Average price per book
• Multiplied by
• Agreed to C/T multiplier (varies by
  publisher-does not need to be static- can be
  renegotiated)
• Equals annual E-license
• Plus
• Optional deep discount print copies

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OL and ABC-CLIO Reference Book/e-Book Big Deal
Prototype

• 402 titles spanning 4 annual waves
• Loaded on OhioLINK site perpetual use, no user
  limits
• Common interface with other e-books/ literature
• Use growing but limited- need critical mass
• Print _at_ -60

Year titles (not Vols) Total annual OL e-license price Retail price for 1 set Net C/T M-plier
Back files 44 -0- 5.780 0
2001 57 122,500 6,124 20.0
2002 69 184,400 7,020 26.3
2003 88 213,800 8,140 26.3
2004 91 231,100 8,800 26.3
2005 53 210,800 8,633 24.5
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How to divide the cost of an e-book license?

• ABC-CLIO- as pilot used internal group formula
  (Student population based) plus central funds
• What about based on share of historical
  purchases? Like e-journals.

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Work in Progress Observations

• Create parallel based analysis with each
  publisher. Determine specific formula for each
• Larger the publisher pool the more history can be
  used
• Central funds maybe be key to sweeten the pot for
  libraries reduce standard deviation and reduced
  flexibility
• Central funds maybe be key to sweeten the pot for
  publishers provide the extra needed to leverage
  access to all