Looking and Reacting to Consortium Statistics

Beth R BernhardtElectronic Resources Librarian

UNC Greensboro

Carolina ConsortiumStarted 2004 with meetings and signed first

license in 1/1/2005Members are any College, University or

Community College in North and South Carolina

Membership is freeBuyers ClubStarted with three big deals and have over

70+ deals schools can join into

CC Big Deals with spend > 250,000ACS Cambridge University PressElsevierOxford University PressSageSpringerWiley-Blackwell

CC Big Deals with Spend < $250,000BEPress (bought by deGruyter) (19 CC

schools)Brill (22)Duke (12)Elsevier College Editions (14)IGI Global (3)Mary Ann Liebert (56)

Statistical CollectionCollected COUNTER statistics for all schools

and most of the big journal deals.Looked at usage statistics from 2009, 2010

and 2011Pulled total pricing informationCombined PDF and HTML full text views Calculated Cost Per UseLooked at price change and usage change

between 2009-2011

Cambridge University PressHas one of the worst Cost Per Use (CPU) By far the lowest overall useLow rate of usage increasePoor license termsMust keep takeoversMost subscribe to launches at 50% list price2.7% of spend and 1.9% of use

Cambridge University Press -Example Small private schoolWill pay about $5300 for 20132011 = 48 uses; $103 CPU24 titles used; 272 unusedNo titles used more than 6 times3 inexpensive titles account for 13 of the 48

uses. They Cost for these 3 titles would be $526.

Cambridge University Press – UNC System school

Will pay about $7200 for 2013 big deal2011 data= 457 uses, $14.95 CPU3 year change = +15% price; -41% use80 titles used; 316 unusedOnly 10 titles used 10 times or moreThose 10 account for 243 of 457 uses (53%)Direct subs to those 10 for 2013 cost $13,063

2011 title by title usageTitle 457 price total

Development and Psychopathology 104 1 541 541

Public Health Nutrition 25 2 1280 1821

Parasitology 22 1943 3764

Journal of Fluid Mechanics 20 4654 8418

Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society 17 503 8921

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 1055 9976

International Psychogeriatrics 10 889 10865

Journal of Social Policy 10 569 11434

Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society 10 395 11829

Psychological Medicine 10 10 1234 13063

Elsevier Freedom CollectionAnemic growth over 2 years (0.8%)2011 CPU 3rd best of 6Price Change 19%, Usage change .8%29.5% of cost, 30.3% of use in the CCHighest average costVery high number of Highly Used Titles Least number of schools – but the Highest

use

Oxford University PressHas lowest CPU 28 schools5.2% of cost, 12.3% of usePublisher is flexible with schools that have

financial hardships

Sage2nd lowest CPU 6.5% of cost; 10.8% of use18 schools

Springer38 schools, most of any large CC big deal19.7% of spend, 17.8% of usage2nd lowest inflation rateDeal structure makes it hard to not belong to

the deal

Wiley-BlackwellBiggest CC spend33 schools, 2nd most of any large big deals2nd highest CPU 36.4% of spend, 26.8% of use8% price increase , 15% increase in use

WB – Big system school2011 paid $50,870; 1186 uses345 titles used; 1817 unused21 titles used 10 or more times; their sub

cost is $43,078Those titles account for 375 uses (32%)

Next Steps to Developing a CC Plan Pull 2012 statsAdding 2012 cost/use dataPrioritizing

PublishersCosts/issues

Negotiating with publishersCoordinating with UNC systemCollective action vs coordinated action vs

individual actionMake recommendations to individual schools

about adding/dropping deals

Thank You

Beth BernhardtElectronic Resources LibrarianUNC GreensboroBeth_Bernhardt@uncg.edu