PsycINFO ® Electronic Databases: Products & Pricing for Consortia International Coalition of Library Consortia 1 October 1998 Charlotte D’Orsaneo PsycINFO User Services

Database or Department? Both! The PsycINFO Department of APA produces: b PsycINFO ® b PsycINFO ® (online & site lease) b PsycFIRST ® b PsycFIRST ® (online & site lease) b PsycLIT ® b PsycLIT ® (CD-ROM) b ClinPSYC ® b ClinPSYC ® (CD-ROM)

Database Descriptions * unlimited local & remote access by affiliated users, as defined by lease

Number of Records

Document Types Covered in PsycINFO D J B C R

Subject Coverage b medicine b psychiatry b nursing b sociology b education b law/forensics b physiology b pharmacology b linguistics b anthropology b business/industry b intelligent systems Psychology Psychological aspects of related fields:

Record Features b 1,400+ journals covered, worldwide b Citation & abstract b Controlled vocabulary indexing Thesaurus of Psychological Index TermsThesaurus of Psychological Index Terms b Key Phrase b Classification system b New population & document type fields b Historic data

1998 Reloads b New/revised fields Population, Age Group, Form/Content Type, Special FeaturePopulation, Age Group, Form/Content Type, Special Feature b Improvements in: currencycurrency processing capacityprocessing capacity turnaround timeturnaround time b Added Historic data

Current Markets b Academic Libraries professorsprofessors studentsstudents staffstaff b Medical nursesnurses physiciansphysicians psychiatristspsychiatrists health systemshealth systems b Psychologists clinical research b Other Applied social workers engineers research facilities pharmaceutical companies

Options for Single Institutions b PsycINFO Site Lease unlimited accessunlimited access b PsycFIRST Site Lease available to institutions with <5,000 FTEsavailable to institutions with <5,000 FTEs unlimited accessunlimited access b Optical Products simultaneous user accesssimultaneous user access b 30-day Free Trial FTEs = Full-Time Enrollments

Options for Consortia b PsycINFO Site Lease b 30-day Free Trial offered by all PsycINFO site lease vendorsoffered by all PsycINFO site lease vendors

PsycINFO Site Lease Vendors b Directly from APA * b IAC (Information Access Co) b OCLC * b SilverPlatter Information b EBSCO Publishing * b NISC † * (National Information Services Corp) b Ovid Technologies * * * Also offers PsycFIRST 3-year rolling file † † Coming soon

Site Lease Access b All users must be bona fide affiliates of the member institutions b Remote access allowable if offered by institutions

Pricing Goals b Budgetable b Predictable b Easy to administer b Flexible b Fair b For APA: Recover costs of production Unrestricted local & remote access for a flat, predictable fee.

Per-Institution Pricing for PsycINFO b 1984-present dataset... $12,500/year b dataset... $10,000 one-time fee b dataset... $ 5,000 one-time fee b Above are APA fees only b Vendors add their own fees

New Per-Institution Pricing for PsycFIRST  1-1,999 FTEs... $2,000/year b 2,000-4,999 FTEs... $4,200/year b Above are APA fees only b Vendors add their own fees FTEs = Full-Time Enrollments

Pricing for Consortia b $12,500 fee/year for each large* site * exists as a single entity with 10,000+ FTEs b Calculate total FTEs for remaining sites $12,500 fee/year for every 10,000 FTEs$12,500 fee/year for every 10,000 FTEs b One-time backfile fees added, if ordered b No re-billing if you switch vendors Note: All prices are APA fees only, exclusive of vendor fees.

30-Day Free Trial 1. Contact vendor of choice or call us 2. Vendor (or you) must tell us: contact name, phone, fax & addresscontact name, phone, fax & address number of FTEs + faculty + staff at institutionnumber of FTEs + faculty + staff at institution 3. We authorize vendor to send data 4. Have vendor request quote at that time triggers us to send you APA lease formstriggers us to send you APA lease forms gets the ball rollinggets the ball rolling

How To Get a Quote 1. We need: name & location of sites to be includedname & location of sites to be included number of FTEs at each sitenumber of FTEs at each site contact infocontact info 2. Quote delivered in 5 business days rush requests in 24 hoursrush requests in 24 hours

How to Order 1. Get price quote, lease form & application form from APA Application form = description of community, contact infoApplication form = description of community, contact info Lease form = agreements/legaleseLease form = agreements/legalese 2. Send forms to APA via mail or fax “hard copy” must follow fax within 2 weeks“hard copy” must follow fax within 2 weeks 3. We authorize vendor to provide access

Enhancements Under Consideration b Lower costs for small academics in 1999: access to APA’s Web-interface for PsycINFO (currently limited to APA members)access to APA’s Web-interface for PsycINFO (currently limited to APA members) access to a vendor’s Web interfaceaccess to a vendor’s Web interface b Addition of video records b New database for General Public audience b Subject subsets?

Possible Future Pricing Options b Differential pricing based on straight FTEsbased on straight FTEs based on FTE tiersbased on FTE tiers b Your thoughts? b Other types of differential pricing?

Tell Us What You Think b Always willing to discuss options b Special consortium configurations are taken into consideration b Exploration of pricing/access issues will continue

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