Will It Blend? A Practical Approach to Evaluating the Big Deal
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Will it blend? A practical approach to evaluating the big deal
David Beales: Engineering Librarian
Nikki DeMoville: Electronic Resource Specialist
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Introduction
• RLUK modeling of big deals
• Lessons learned
• Overview of the Cal Poly model
• Using the model for scenario planning
• Next steps
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RLUK experience
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• Consortium of 30 research
libraries in UK
• Negotiations with Elsevier
and Wiley Blackwell through
2011
• What would be the result of
walking away?
• Initial assumption: we could
only take a short stroll
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• Negotiating tool
• Adjustment factors
for individual
institutions
• Combination of
subscriptions and ILL
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• Subscribe to
everything above the
red
• Get the remainder
through ILL
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Lessons learned
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• Don‟t assume packages equal
good value
• Don‟t just measure packages
against the publisher‟s own
titles
• Don‟t pursue article
downloads at all costs
• Are you comfortable walking
away from a deal?
• How much is it worth to regain
control of your budget?
• Maths will only take you so far
• Keep it simple
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Don’t measure a publisher against itself
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“Digital Licences Replace Print Prices as Accurate Reflection of Real Journal
Costs”, Paula Gantz; Professional Scholarly Publishing Bulletin 2013
http://www.pspcentral.org/documents/2012Bulletin.pdf
• Inflated
individual journal
price
• Discounted deals
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• Where‟s the
competition?
• Faculty don‟t
consider publisher
• Use existing ILL data
as a surrogate
• Blend in journals
from other publishers
• Not all turnaways
result in ILL requests
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Changes in library spending, adjusted for inflation
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“The Big Deal and the Damage Done”; Walt Crawford, 2013
Don’t pursue article downloads at all costs
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Don’t pursue article downloads at all costs
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• Opportunity cost of
non-journal material
we don‟t buy
• Much information is
unavailable from
alternative sources
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Are you comfortable walking away from a deal?
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• Are all downloads the same
value?
• PDF: HTML ratio
• Bookmarking an article
• Influence of cross-
disciplinarity
• Turnaways resulting in ILL
requests?
• Maths will only take you so
far
• Scenario planning
– Conservative vs. bold
– What would a budget
reduction look like?
http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/06/ala/no-big-deal-three-
libraries-survive-cuts-to-serials-access-ala-annual-2012
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How much is it worth to regain control of your budget?
“„What you offer us is a Rolls Royce. In the old days we
could afford a Rolls Royce, but now we can‟t, so I want a
Volkswagen. You, however, are preventing me from
buying a Volkswagen; you are saying that I must take a
Rolls Royce or nothing.”
– Debbie Shorley (Director, Imperial College London
2011)http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep11/The-Big-Deal-Not-Price-But-Cost.shtml
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Our work at Cal Poly…
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How does our analysis tool work?
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JR1 Report
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• Request from
publisher or usage
data service
• No cleanup required
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Publisher’s List Prices
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• Only need ISSN, title
and price
• Ask the publisher for
it!
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Journals in the Offer
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• Need titles and
ISSNs
• Gets price and
usage data
• Manages
combination titles
• Allows prioritization
• Predicts usage and
ILL
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Interlibrary Loan Data
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• Mirrors the journal
data
• Most time consuming
element
• Data is reusable
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Adjustment Factors
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• Starting budget
• Cost increase factors
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Sorting the Results
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• Paste in offer data
• Paste in ILL data
• Sort!
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Results Overview
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• How many
subscriptions can we
afford?
• What about the high-
priority titles?
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Summary Information
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Estimating the impact of
opting out
• How much content
would be delivered by
subscription?
• Would ILL requests
increase?
• What happens to the
ILL budget?
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Publisher A
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Publisher B Results page
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Publisher B
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Next Steps
• Try at CSU
• COUNTER Release 4
• Adapt for single disciplines
• Adapt to look at two or more publisher offers at once
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Thank youQuestions?
David Beales
Nikki DeMoville