Post on 03-Jan-2016
Activities report 2006
1. Spain & the Big Deal
2. BeCyT
3. CBUC
- Licensing
- E-journals usage study
- OA activities
- New software implementation
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)
BeCyT
• Joint financing• Core collection oriented
- Elsevier, Springer/Kluwer, Blackwell/Wiley, Taylor&Francis, 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
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 ...?
Digital Library of Catalonia usage studies
• JAL article on user and users of e-journals at Catalan universitieshttp://hdl.handle.net/2072/3692 (preprint)
• E-journals usage 2003-2005 at Catalan universitieshttp://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 theSchool of Librarianship (Barcelona Univ.)
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
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
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)
10 (first) years of CBUC history!!!
Our motto: 9x109 programs in 10 years
but ...
in Catalan this can also be read as “Don’t lose it!”
(and our little red boxes can be of help)