SCONUL Conference 20-21 June 2013, Dublin SCONUL Fringe session - Jisc Collection's Consortia: E-books project, with Lorraine Estelle, Chief Executive Officer, Jisc Collections.

1. JISC e-books consortia project
SCONUL annual conference and AGM 2013
Friday, June
21, 2013

2. 2
» To explore if there is an effective way to purchase e-books on a title-by-
title basis for collaborative group of academic libraries:
› Would all books have sufficient use to provide value for all the
members?
› How could such a collaboration be equitably funded?
› How much would the publishers charge for consortia purchase – and
would they think they were getting a good deal (gaining revenue
through more sales by providing a consortia discount)?
› How could such a scheme be managed?
The purpose of the project

3. 3 14-15 May 2013
Jisc board away day
Max Planck Institutes
» Each Max Planck Institute can order single e-book titles
according to its needs
» Pricing for the ordering institute is at factor 1 -- that means at
the regular list price for that institute
» Provider invoices the ordering institute
» Access to purchased e-books is activated for the whole Max
Planck Society: not only for the ordering institute but for all 80
institutes at no additional cost
Previous e-books consortia projects

4. 4 14-15 May 2013
Jisc board away day
» Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya (CBUC)
» “In 2009We decided to create our own e-books big deal”:
The basic idea:
– Choose 1
– Pay 1 (and CBUC will additionally pay 2)
– Get 9
» Total expenditure 130.000: € 50.000€ from members + 80.000€
fromCBUC funds
» Average price per title and member = 12€ (standard price can be
50/60€)
Previous e-books consortia projects

5. 5 14-15 May 2013
Jisc board away day
» While the Max Plank and CBUC have trialed the model no
analysis was done of usage, cost per usage and value
» Thus no evidence that sharing is a good idea!
Calculating the value

6. 6 14-15 May 2013
Jisc board away day
» E-books in the area of engineering
» 5 libraries: Cranfield University, Loughborough University,
Brunel University, University of Southampton,
University of Newcastle
» 7 publishers: Artech House Inc, Cambridge University Press, John
Wiley & Sons Inc ,Taylor & Francis Ltd, JohnWiley & Sons Inc,
Institution of Engineering &Technology,World Scientific
» 1 e-book aggregator: Dawson
Our project

7. 7 14-15 May 2013
Jisc board away day
» For the JISC Collections Consortia e-book Pilot each
Participating Publisher has agreed to a Multiplier for consortia
pricing.
› This means that the Selecting Institution will pay the Standard Fee and
JISCCollections will pay the Multiplier Fees
› For example if the agreed Multiplier is 2, the Selecting Institution will pay
the Standard Fee and JISC Collections will pay the Multiplier Fee
equivalent to 1x Standard Fee
› If the agreed multiplier is 3, the Selecting Institution will pay the Standard
Fee and JISCCollections will pay the 2 x Standard Fee
The Multiplier Fee

8. 8 14-15 May 2013
Jisc board away day
» Results at the end for Selecting Institutions
» 118 e-books bought
» 49 e-books not used
» 2608 acts of use
» £11680 total list price of e-books bought
» £4.47 cost per use
How it is looking so far

9. 9 14-15 May 2013
Jisc board away day
» Results at the end for Non- Selecting Institutions
» 18 e-books not used
» 2086 e-book uses
» 222 maximum uses of one e-book
£16,753 total list price of e-books
used
How it is looking so far

10. 10 14-15 May 2013
Jisc board away day
» £23,619 total cost of e-books with the multiplier
» £83,765 total cost of e-books if bought separately at list price
» More analysis to follow …
we will publish the full results in
the autumn
… watch this space!
The bottom line