Southern and Northern consortia Similarities and dissimilarities Lluís M. Anglada i de Ferrer...

Southern and Northern consortia

Similarities and dissimilarities

Lluís M. Anglada i de FerrerConsorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya

10th E ICOLC (Munich, 20-22 Oct 2008)

D2/Icolc/0810ConsSN.ppt2/23

Schema

1. What is SELL?

2. SELL consortia compared to Northern/Central Europe consortia

3. South is different?


SELL members SELL = Southern European Libraries Link

France (Couperin) Greece (Heal-Link) Italy (CIBER, CILEA, SBBL) Portugal (B-On) Spain (BUCLE, CBUA, CBUC, CBUG, CSIC,

Madroño) Turkey (ANKOS)

1st meeting: 2001 Thessaloniki, Greece http://www.heal-link.gr/SELL/


SELL offers its consortia members a platform to:

promote the special requirements of its members to publishers

draw common policies support other fields of cooperation discuss and learn


SELL Statements 2001:

“Why some libraries and consortia are paying too much for e-information”

2002: Statement on VAT

2004: “New pricing model of Elsevier for

ScienceDirect”


Schema

1. What is SELL?




Consortia studied (2006)

SELL (12) Portugal, Spain (6), Italy (3), Greece and

Turkey Central and Northern Europe (14)

Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Finland, France, Germany (2), Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands (2), Norway, Poland, UK


Foundation yearSouth Center/North

...-1996 2 41997-99 4 32000-02 5 52003-05 1 2

Total 12 14


Libraries in the consortiumPublic universities 11 14Private universities 6 6Research centers 8 11Hospitals 3 5Public libraries 1 7School libraries 0 2Other 4 6


Consortia activities S CN

Licensing (databases) 11 13

Licensing (e- journals) 12 12

Licensing (e- books) 8 8

Union catalogues 5,5 3

ILL 6 2

Repositories - theses 3,5 3

Repos. - wk papers 4 1

Other repositories 2 2

Digitization 3 2

Training 10 8

Warehouses 1 1


Business S 6 2

Cinahl 2 5

Compendex 5 5

Econlit 5 6

Eric 4 8

FSTA 4 2

Embase 1 1

IEEE 7 4

Lexis/Nexis 3 3

MathSciNet 7 4

Medline 6 7

MLA 3 7

Periodical I 6 1

ProQ Health 3 1

PsycInfo 4 8

Serials D 3 0

SciFinder 4 5

Scopus 2 2

WoS 10 11

Westlaw 3 3

Zentralblatt 2 2

Other 46 72

Databases


ACS 8 8

AIP 6 4

Annual Reviews 5 4

ACM 6 4

Blackwell 9 11

Cambridge UP 2 4

Cell 1 3

Emerald 5 8

IOPP 5 3

Kluwer 10 8

Kluwer Law I 3 2

Lippincott 2 5

Oxford UP 3 8

Royal Soc. Chemistry 3 3

Sage 6 7

Science 4 5

SIAM 2 1

Springer 9 11

Wiley 8 8

Other 12 38

Journals


South versus Northor

Big countries versus small ones

Consortia versus buying clubs

Staffed consortia versus virtual ones

With central money versus whithout

Only universities or research centres also

Libraries alone or working with the administration


Schema

1. What is SELL?




SELL members share some common problems, such as:

English as 2nd language is not as common as in other non-English-speaking countries

Educational system is quite different from the Anglo-Saxon model

Weak purchasing power due to very inadequate budgets

Poor tradition in library cooperation Not a very relevant role of the libraries within the

university


Why some libraries are paying too much?

Model prices based on ‘nordic’ countries: FTE not applicable Campus licenses not applicable University teaching based on lectures and

studying notes Universities play an occupational role for

young people Low knowledge of English (even among the

university population)


Model prices

Based on: Historical expenditure Simultaneous users Bands

Big – very big Medium Small – very small


Banding: pattern is common

Very few are big or very big Some are medium Most are small or very small


... but sizes are not comparable

USA Large

More than 15.000 Medium

5.000 to 15.000 Small

Less than 5.000

Spain Large

More than 50.000 Medium

Nearly 35.000 Small

Less than 20.000


SELL future

New names Branding


New names

C L A I M S Consortia of Libraries Around and In Mediterranean Sea

C A L A M A T A Consortia of Academic Libraries Around Mediterranean Together Acting


We are seriously considering to use blue and red as our brand

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