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Spain( CBUC)country report to 7th SELL
MeettingMadrid, 16/17.03.07
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Activities report 2006

• Spain the Big Deal
• BeCyT
• CBUC
• Licensing
• E-journals usage study
• OA activities
• New software implementation

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Spain the Big Deal

• 5 real (?) consortia Andalucía, Castilla
  León, Cataluña, Galicia, Madrid
• 1 alike consortium CSIC
• 2 buying clubs
• Several virtual consortia (EBSCO or Swets driven)
• 1 Spanish association of all academic
  universities (CRUE section)

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BeCyT

• Joint financing
• Core collection oriented
• Elsevier, Springer/Kluwer, Blackwell/Wiley,
  TaylorFrancis, Nature, Sage, Science
• No money (by now)
• A chance or a threat?
• Invest money in price increases?
• No more content for those who already have a lot
• Small territories consortial deals in danger

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CBUC-Digital Library of Catalonia

• Renewals done (Elsevier, Springer, Wiley,
  Emerald) conditions have usually been fair
• Some new deals in 2006 (ALPSP, Elsevier
  backfiles, OUP Premium)
• Extension of our IEEEXplore deal to 5 non-CBUC
  universities
• But now ... stand by situation
• Same allocation costs formula (3 increase CBUC
  pays the difference to reach the real annual
  price increase)
• New money, but no clear ideas of what to buy next
• Learning oriented e-resources?
• New kinds of members research centres,
  hospitals, public school libraries ...?

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Digital Library of Catalonia usage studies

• JAL article on user and users of e-journals at
  Catalan universities
• http//hdl.handle.net/2072/3692 (preprint)
• E-journals usage 2003-2005 at Catalan
  universities
• http//hdl.handle.net/2072/3586 (in Catalan)
• Update of a report done in 2004 and published in
  D-Lib
• Both reports have been conducted by the
• School of Librarianship (Barcelona Univ.)

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Major conclusions

• Permanent increase in usage, both in previously
  subscribed e-journals and not previously
  subscribed
• Usage data is related to scientific production
  data in each university
• Consortial gain 60,54 of downloads belong to
  non previously subscribed e-journals
• High dispersion degree in usage 30-35 of titles
  are needed to reach 80 of articles

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OA IR activities

• More than 4.000 e-theses http//www.tesisenxarxa.
  net/
• 15 universities (4 no-CBUC)
• More than 3.000 e-prints http//www.recercat.net/
  
• 12 institutions (2 no-CBUC)
• More than 120 journals http//www.raco.cat/
• 19 institutions (9 no-CBUC)
• More than 65.000 images http//www.cbuc.cat/mdc
• 7 institutions (2 no-CBUC)
• Cooperative repository for educational materials
  developed in the Catalan universities ... under
  construction

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New software implementation

• Selected products at the tender (2005)
• ILS Corinthian, from SirsiDynix
• Digital library SFX and MetaLib, from ExLibris
• Implementation (2006)
• SFX and MetaLib working
• Corinthian delays, lack of communication from
  vendor(to be continued)

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10 (first) years of CBUC history!!!

• Our motto 9x10
• 9 programs in 10 years
• but ...
• in Catalan this can also be read as Dont lose
  it!
• (and our little red boxes can be of help)

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Pleased to help ...

• CBUC
• http//www.cbuc.es/
• Lluís Anglada langlada_at_cbuc.es
• Núria Comellas ncomellas_at_cbuc.es