Beth Bernhardt Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communications UNC Greensboro Pay Per View or Déjà vu

UNC Greensboro 2002 Carnegie Classification – Doctoral Univ. I FTE 10,751 Collection –2.7 million items (books, docs & microforms) –14,966 electronic journals –149 online & CD-ROM databases

UNC Greensboro Present Carnegie Classification – Doctoral Intensive Univ. I FTE is 18,500 Collection –2.8 million items (books, gov docs & microforms) –42,666 journals in Journal Finder –400+ electronic databases

Why did we start a pay per view program? More journal titles to your users More back files available Quicker access to journal articles than conventional interlibrary loan Collection development tool 2002

Options at UNCG FirstSearch – 83 titles (added in 2002) EBSCO – 1644 titles (added in 2002) American Institute of Physics - 16 (added in 2003) Ingenta – 318 titles (added in 2003) Science Direct – 882 titles (added in 2003) Wiley InterScience – 340 titles (added 1/2004) OVID LWW – 187 titles (added 7/2004) TOTAL – 3470 titles

Criteria for selection Do not have a subscription to the journal Needed access to back files Had print but there was a big upcharge for online access Have through an aggregator, but not current access due to embargos

Setting up Access Added titles to our ERM Added titles in the OPAC Send all patrons through authentication Authentication alerted patrons that they article they wanted would cost the library a certain amount of money

Problems with Pay Per View Reduced budgetary predictability Potential for abuse Barriers to users

EBSCO Usage Statistics Journals available Articles ordered Total number of journal titles used Accesses through ERM Average Cost$19.48$22.21$24.83$24.73$29.90

Total Costs 2002

Total Costs 2003

Total Costs 2004

PPV – Impact on Collection Development Overview of titles purchased

Impact on Collection Development Example of a title that will be added to the collection: Current Directions in Psychological Science –19 articles for $21.00/per article were purchased over 12 months –Purchasing pattern of 1 to 2 articles a month –Electronic subscription costs approximately $280

The Carolina Consortium For 2005, 38 schools participated in one or more of the following deals –Blackwell – 714 titles –Springer – 1164 titles –Wiley – 300 titles

Big Deals in Wiley titles –667 Wiley pay-per-view articles ordered from non-subscribed titles in 2004 –93% of titles ordered through Wiley in 2004 were available through our consortia deal 2004 we paid $10155 in pay per view costs 2005 we paid an extra $2754 to receive 250 Wiley titles via the Carolina Consortium – Average $11.00 a title Wiley title – American Journal of Medical Genetics, Parts A, B, and C –2004 Subscription cost = $9333 –2004 PPV cost = 64 x $10 = $640 for 64 uses –2005 Consortium cost = $11 for 221 uses

Cuts $300,000 for books $240,000 for Journals $130,000 for databases Really bad budget news

Cuts $296,000 for Books $260,000 for Journals $232,000 for Databases $268,500 Other TOTAL $1,056,500 Really Really Bad Budget News

But wait there’s more! –Flat budget paid inflation with One Time Money –Flat budget = 4 to 5% cut – Gave up 4 open positions – 9% cut to collections

Déjà vu Having to cut big deals Looking at Pay Per View options again Asking publishers to setup Pay Per View options again

Big Deals that were cut IOP – canceled the deal and subscriptions –Cost per use was $57.42 Royal Society of Chemistry packages B and J –Cost per use was $84.96 Sage Premier Now Nature journals

Investigating Readcube – to access Nature journals –Nature Cell Biology $82 cost per use –Nature Neuroscience - $33 cost per use Investigate Get it Now. Right now it doesn’t work with our link resolver and system.

Thank you Beth Bernhardt Assistant Dean for Collection Management and Scholarly Communcations UNC Greensboro