Breaking the Big Deal ASERL Jonathan Nabe October 25, 2016 Southern Illinois University Carbondale

About SIUC Doctoral Higher Research Activity ARL member, 3 million volumes and a budget of $5 million

Effects of Leaving Lost access ILLs increase, minimally Significant budget savings Increased flexibility in collection development

Effects - Budget 2004, 24% of our budget for 3 big deals 2008, 33% for same deals We save about $400,000 per year by leaving More than our book budget

A lost big deal Wiley: 2001-2010 597 non-subscribed titles 11,254 downloads from these titles in year prior to departure

Effects - ILLs Over five year period: ILLs average 2% of the download figures, annually 47% of lost titles have had no ILL requests Average number of ILL requests per title is less than 2

Effects - Collection Development We can and do cancel by need, not by contract Protection of non-Big Deal publishers Protection of the book funds

Effects – of Not leaving Cancellations disproportionately made to the publications of smaller publishers, for institutions with Big Deals Smaller publishers sell out to the bigger commercial publishers, for protection of subscriptions and income

Conclusion Lost access – to peripheral titles Minimal impact on workload and ILL fees High and increasing savings Flexibility Help shape a more sustainable and balanced scholarly publishing environment

Thanks! Jonathan Nabe jnabe@lib.siu.edu