ICOLC, Stockholm, September 30 to October 3, 2007 The consortium experience of a small university: to follow the movement or to be dissident? Katrien Bergé
1. The university Facultés Notre Dame de la Paix Namur Arts, Economics, Law, Sciences, Medecine, Informatics Institute Students 1 st cycle nd cycle rd cycle 115 PhD 280 Staff (FTE) academic 257 administrative 337 Research output ? CRef (Conseil des Recteurs des université francophones de Belgique)
2. Bibliothèque Universitaire Moretus Plantin - BUMP Collections 2006 Books Current serials print (subscriptions) electronic (subscriptions) electronic (consortia) E-books Databases 52 Use & users Users8.960 Loans Visits ILL outgoing requests 988 incoming requests 847
Budget 2007 library budget € collection budget € journals € base value € e-collections € consortia € abstracting & indexing databases [limited to listed infra] € full text databases [limited to listed infra] € e-books € TOTAL € Subvention > € < €
3. Consortia Partnership with(in) 3 library associations BICfB – Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Communauté française subvention: - max. 50% of the price paid by each institute - decided by the board BORéAL – Bibliothèque On-line du Réseau de l’Académie ‘Louvain’ VOWB – Vlaams Overlegorgaan inzake Wetenschappelijk Bibliotheekwerk Pricing models & cost allocation - ‘traditional’ methods: proportional division by institution (FTE), proportional distribution of cost increase/savings, … to explore: usage based distributions (stats!), tier pricing, value-based pricing, archives pricing versus collection preservation cost, pay per use, combination of … and how to bridge a transition towards a new model? - for each pricing model another cost allocation approach
BUMP’s E-ressources consortia Full Text databases E-Books Springer Online eBooks aug – dec jan – aug FT - HTML – PDF searches 2006Average cost/ search 2007 (jan - aug) ACS16.755€ 8, Blackwell Synergy4.760€1, Business Source Premier__136 Institute of Physics Journals 611€ 2,88665 Nature Online__1.377 Springer Online4.760€ 3, Science Direct Journals48.207€ 1,
Abstracting & indexing databases records viewed2006average cost2007 (jan – aug) Current Contents Connect _2.959 EconLit [march-dec 2006]3.427€ 0,5639 Essential Science Indicators [searches] 653_478 Francis28.586€ 0,05… Georef [searches]n.a._62 Inspec [searches]392€ 18,7111 JCR web [searches]3.127_110 MathScinet [searches]294€ 2,6n.a. Medline [march-dec 2006]11.801_2.243 MLA [jan – may 2007]n.a._886 SciFinder Scholar [activities] incomp._n.a. Web of Science16.378_n.a.
4. Some questions Should we drop the big deals in the small universities ? Focus on subsidiarity, collaborative complementary e-collection development ? An integration process of small universities with a big one: pittfalls and opportunities ? Back to basics, i.e. our complementary skills in the information society ? A(nother) cross-border partnership ? And…a survival kit for the consortium negotiator ?
Your questions
Thanks to my colleagues in Namur and Louvain-la-Neuve and for your attention