The Academic Library in the 21 st Century: a UW Libraries Perspective Tim Jewell Director, Information Resources and Scholarly Communication

John’s Questions What is the academic library today? What forces are shaping its future? – What control do libraries have? – How do we plan for the future? – How do UW Libraries think about content? – How do we make economically responsible decisions about access to content?

John’s Hypotheses Attitudes/practices based on info scarcity – Now in era of info abundance May not be able to predict collection’s value to users Can’t afford to build collections by title

Research Library Expenditure Trends

UW Context Complex, 3-campus system serving wide range of research, teaching (biomed to int’l studies) UW: 79% Serials/21% Monograph Shift to e-access ~55%) w/licenses UW budget cuts and UW Libraries – 13.5% reduction (1.5% rescission + 12% cut) – Branch libraries closed, staff reductions, etc. – Materials budget cuts (~20% purch. power loss) WorldCat Local pilot

UW Open Access Week Sessions Journal publishing access and economics Author rights Future of the monograph Future of access to scholarly publications – Web 2.0 developments a game changer? – Many new publishing options – New types of information need support

Libraries Strategic Planning Themes Continuing Resource Challenges – Space, staffing, collections funding Contributions under-recognized Collection development “overhead” problem New liaisonship service models reshape roles – Educational/curriculum partnerships – E-science, data curation – Repository, publishing, copyright support

UW and Serials Market Trends Strong demand for online access to current and back issues “Aggregator” databases (EBSCO et al.) – Content “instability” has to be assumed Publisher mergers and acquisitions – Journal “bundling”; e-prices not tied to print Pushback on journal pricing – Library consortia – NIH Mandate, FRPAA, etc. – UW Faculty Senate Resolution

Complex Serials Review Process Phase One – Reduction targets set, subscription lists generated – Departments contacted, cancellation lists identified Phase Two – Publisher negotiations, cancellation implications for “bundles” assessed For both, supplemental data made available: Article downloads, cost per use ISI Impact Factor, Eigenfactor UW-authored publications & citations in published work

Estimating value of bundles: 2008

Serials Cancellation Results ~ 500 print only cancelled but e-access kept ~ 1500 Journals to be cancelled – ~1200 “full” cancellations (print + online) – ~300 e-journals cancelled Springer/Kluwer e-journals – Loss of Access to ~1100 “bundled” journals Elsevier and Wiley/Blackwell? Some cancellations vetoed to keep bundles Explicit tie to ILL business plan needed

Book Purchasing Trends & Issues UW to buy ~11,500 fewer books this year University presses at risk E-book development – Mass digitization (Google Books, etc.) – Kindle, other readers in the news Digital rights management, loaning logistics issues – Platforms and business model evolution – Bundling and “serialization” problem

Evolving (Print) Book Buying Strategies Open options to users – WorldCat Local and ILL More collaborative/coordinated buying – 3 campuses, Orbis Cascade Alliance Become more data driven – Demand/user-driven buying (ILL purchase pilot) – More focus on usage/circulation data Rationalize (reduce “transaction costs”)

UW Ebook Buying Experience netLibrary, ebrary, other platforms Historical (EEBO, ECCO, etc.) E-reference (Gale, Oxford Reference, etc.) IT, technical (Safari, Knovel, Engnetbase) Specialty academic (CIAO, Cognet, ACLS Ebook project) “Bundles” (Springer Math/Stat)

Toward a Balanced Ebook Strategy Coordinated book/e-book approval plans – UW and Orbis Cascade Alliance User-driven purchase models – University of Texas model and variations Assess ebook readers & licensing issues – UW e-textbook pilot, other options Google Book Settlement/Hathi Trust – Await developments, path forward?

Emerging UW “Digital Directions” Special Collections projects (ContentDM, Dspace) ResearchWorks (UW Dspace repository) – ETD program – OA article harvesting, other content recruitment Open Journal Systems (OJS) support – Slovene Studies backfile UW Press Collaboration – Develop supporting web exhibits/collections – Digitize UW author backlist, make available to campus? E-science support, “data curation”