What value do we bring to UK institutions through our central negotiations for e-resources? What value do we bring to UK institutions through our central negotiations for e-resources? In this session we will provide an overview of what has been achieved so far on behalf of the community, but also look at the key issues we are now addressing, such as debating the limitations of academic journal markets, and the consequences for a transition to open access, as well as how we are working with institutions to build better agreements.

1. The value of Jisc Collections
Liam Earney

2. Service provider and strategic partner
»Jisc Collections in numbers
»Unpicking value, savings and efficiencies
»Strategic partner
› Consultation and Collaboration
› Practical research
› Bringing together negotiation and Jisc library management
services
»Challenges in the academic journals market
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3. Purpose
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Enable affordable access to content for teaching and research

4. Purpose
»Save institutions time and money through:
› Expert negotiation of pricing for digital content
› Expert negotiation of licences for digital content
› Simplified administration/processing of subscriptions
»Ensure compliance with procurement regulations
»Help institutions manage risk
»Reduce duplication of effort
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5. Types of agreement
»Journals
»E-books (textbooks,
monographs, reference)
»Geospatial data
»Multi-media
»Full text databases
»Abstract and indexing databases
»Archives (all formats as above)
»Open access content
»Differential pricing by sector
»Tiered pricing based on
relevant institutional income
»Agreements underpinned by
model licences used for all
agreements
»Opt-in agreements with
annual opt-outs
»Increasingly complex
negotiations and models
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6. 2014-2015 in numbers
»9,000 active subscriptions
»250+ licence agreements covering over 400 subscription
agreements
»6,000 invoices issued worth £43million
»Total value of agreements negotiated was £90million in 14/15
(Out of a sector spend of £220million) – 41%
»Savings to the sector of over £70million per annum
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7. Value, savings and efficiencies
»Value of the content in the agreements
› How much (if any) would institutions have bought?
»Savings
› How much money are we saving through our work?
»Efficiencies
› Improvements to the process
»There are data gathering and interpretation challenges with all
three
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8. Some examples
»Value
› British Standards Online
› One institution downloaded £9million of data in 2014
»Savings
› That subscription cost £19,000
› Springer Agreement – legal work alone cost £9K
–100 institutions are participating in that agreement
»Efficiencies
› In 2016 the team 5 FTE will be re-negotiating 60+ agreements
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9. A strategic partner?

10. Purpose
Enable affordable access to content for teaching and research
What does
affordable mean?
What types of access?
Who?When?Where?
How?
What types of content?
Is ‘content’ the right word?
What are the implications for us,
in the changing context of
teaching and research?
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11. Consultation and collaboration
»True value is derived from the input of institutions
»Advisory groups of senior library directors
»Springer agreement - 20 months of negotiation
› Informed by surveys, webinars, face to face meetings
»Elsevier agreement
› Negotiation criteria agreed by over 80 institutions
»Input from across the sector
› RLUK, SCONUL, SUPC
»International co-operation, evidence sharing and leadership
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12. Practical research
Investigating new initiatives in scholarly communications

13. OA and Subscriptions
28 institutions
39 institutions
40 institutions
£0.00
£500,000.00
£1,000,000.00
£1,500,000.00
£2,000,000.00
£2,500,000.00
£3,000,000.00
£3,500,000.00
2013 2014 2015
Total APC expenditure
Elsevier Wiley-Blackwell Nature Publishing Group Oxford University Press
Springer PLOS BioMed Central American Chemical Society
BMJ Taylor & Francis Frontiers
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14. Institution as etextbook publisher
»Responding to challenges of cost of textbooks
»Testing models of production, distribution, promotion
»Provides data, case studies, what to avoid, opportunities
»Eight new textbooks (six OA and two very low cost)
»Saving money for students and HEIs, widening participation
»Better student satisfaction on all “resources” question on NSS
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15. OAPEN-UK
»Five year research study into open access monograph publishing in
HSS with quantitate and qualitative strands
»Comprehensive evidence base on the current state of readiness of
academics, institutions, publishers, learned societies and funders
»Recommendations focused on plurality, partnerships and
pellucidity
»Jisc leading best practice development, exploration of new models
and services
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16. Linking Jisc’s negotiations to its library management services
Driving better decision making for Jisc and the sector

17. Challenges in the academic journals market
Stimulating an informed and considered discussion

18. Jisc’s library management services
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Consortial
Negotiation
Jisc
Collections
Journals
Books
Databases
Archives
Multimedia
Subscription
and
Purchasing
Jisc
Collections
website
Ebooks
tracking and
decision
support
JUSP and
KB+
Usage
tracking
JUSP
Licence
management
and info
Jisc
Collections
web site
KB+
SHERPA
ROMeO
Entitlement
tracking
KB+
SUNCAT
Perpetual
Access
KB+
Keepers
Registry

19. Jisc’s library management services
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Consortial
Negotiation
Jisc
Collections
Journals,Books,
Archives,
Databases,
Multimedia,
Geospatial
Subscription and
Purchasing
Jisc
Collections
web site
Ebooks tracking
and decision
support
JUSP and KB+
Usage tracking
JUSP
Licence
management/info
Jisc
Collections
website
KB+
SHERPA
ROMeO
Entitlement
tracking
KB+
SUNCAT data
PerpetualAccess
KB+
Keepers
Registry
Data and Interoperability

20. Jisc’s library management services
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Consortial
Negotiation
Jisc
Collections
Journals,Books,
Databases,
Archives,
Multimedia,
Geospatial
Subscription and
Purchasing
Jisc
Collections
web site
Ebooks tracking
and decision
support
JUSP and KB+
Usage tracking
JUSP
Licence
management/info
Jisc
Collections
web site
KB+
SHERPA
ROMeO
Entitlement
tracking
KB+
SUNCAT data
PerpetualAccess
KB+
Keepers
Analytics and business intelligence

21. The challenging transition to Gold OA
“The UK model of Gold Open Access is unfundable and unsustainable.”
AOASG Response to Australian Government Paper “Vision for a Science Nation”
http://aoasg.org.au/2015/08/07/aoasg-response-to-australian-government-paper-vision-for-a-science-nation/
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22. Government response to Finch Report
»The Government “….looks to the publishing industry to develop
innovative and sustainable solutions“ :
› “….a meaningful proportion of an institution's total [article
processing charges] with a publisher to be offset against total
subscription payments with that publisher".
»"Government welcomes efforts by Jisc Collections to develop
sustainable funding models that establish a relationship between
the payment ofAPCs (and the costs of administering them) and
subscription fees for an institution.“
Letter from Rt Hon DavidWilletts MP to DameJanet Finch, 23January 2014
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23. AdamTickell advice to Minister
»“Financial challenges remain.This is particularly acute in relation to
Gold OA. Research for this report shows a consistent and steep
increase in the average cost of purchasing Gold OA, without a
commensurate fall in subscription costs.”
»“This has largely resulted from the growth of, so-called, ‘hybrid’
journals which remain based on subscriptions but, for an additional
fee, will publish papers on the Gold model.”
»“An alternative approach would be to consider whether funding
Gold Open Access in Hybrid Journals where there are no equivalent
offsets in subscription costs is a good use of public funds.”
Continued support for Gold OA, with caveats
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24. Positive progress
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25. Restatement of support for offsetting
“I am also keen to see progress in offsetting arrangements and better
value obtained for higher education institutions”
Jo Johnson MP
Minister of State forUniversities and Science
11th February 2016
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26. A joint thought piece
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27. Why we need this market work better
»Currently OA transition is neither cost-effective nor quick
»Universities and publishers face additional administrative costs and
need to invest in new workflows and systems
»UKHE is paying more to many journal publishers than before, to
cover both subscriptions and OA
› OA trying to fit into a market dominated by the Big Deal model
› Legacy pricing models already deeply unpopular
»Are we replicating the least satisfactory aspects of the current
journals market in an OA world?
› Is there any price sensitivity from authors or readers?
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28. What steps might we take to effect change?
»Limit use of research funding to pure Gold?
› Or place conditions on use of funds in hybrid journals
»Encourage greater participation in negotiations
› Funders, university management
»Preference in negotiations for models that shift to OA
»Greater support forGreen in all UK OA policies
»Development and adopt a fuller range of quality indicators
»Support small, society publishers, close to the academic
community, explore innovative business models
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29. jisc.ac.uk
Discussion
Thank you
Liam Earney
Director, Jisc Collections
Liam.earney@jisc.ac.uk