Trialling Mobile and Article Rental Access Options for Journal Content Grace Baynes Nature Publishing Group NASIG, June 2011
Overview ● Why experiment with new access options? ● DeepDyve ● Mobile: iPhone, iPad… ● Other experimental developments –Licensed pay-per-view –Interactive textbooks
Why experiment? ● Over 4000 institutions have access to Nature via site license ● BUT ● Mobile adoption ● Calls for low-cost, quick view ● Company culture
DeepDyve experiment
DeepDyve
DeepDyve and NPG
Take up is low…
DeepDyve unique visitors
Why so low? ● Users already have access? ● Not many people using DeepDyve? ● Small number of journals ● Archival content only to 2008 ● Delay in content going live on DeepDyve ● Position of link on nature.com
Mobile subscriptions
Mobile engagement PlatformHours per day Android-based5.3 Blackberry4.6 iPhone4.5 iPad2.6 E-readers (all)1.9 Source: Outsell, 2010
Source: Forrester Research, 2011
Texas A&M: Library survey 2010 Graph courtesy of Bennett Claire Ponsford
Texas A&M: Library survey 2010 Graph courtesy of Bennett Claire Ponsford
iPhone App nature.com
Nature.com app: iPhone and iPad usage stats (May 2010-April 2011)
Some challenges… ● No individual article purchase yet ● Only one operating platform (IOS) ● Site license authentication?? ● COUNTER compliance
Mobile website m.nature.com
Goal is…
Other experiments…
Licensed pay per view ● In addition to some site license holdings ● Mediated or non-mediated ● Ranges from $10-20 download
Interactive, affordable access textbooks