Spain(& CBUC)

country report to 7th SELL Meetting

Madrid, 16/17.03.07

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)

Pleased to help ...

CBUC

http://www.cbuc.es/

Lluís Anglada langlada@cbuc.es

Núria Comellas ncomellas@cbuc.es