Licensing e- content & OA perspectives from the South of Europe Lluís M. Anglada i de Ferrer Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya IATUL 27th Annual Conference Porto, May 2006

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B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 3/56 SELL Southern European Libraries Link Greece (Heal-Link) Italy (CIBER, CILEA, SBBL) Spain (BUCLE, CBUA, CBUC, CBUG, CSIC, Madroño) Portugal (B-on) Turkey (ANKOS) 1st meeting: 2001 Thessaloniki, Greece

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B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 6/56 SELL members share some common problems, such as: English as 2nd language no so common as in other non English speaking countries an education system quite different from the Anglo-Saxon model weak purchasing power due to very inadequate budgets poor tradition in library cooperation Not a very relevant role of the libraries within the university

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 7/56 SELL offers a platform to its consortia members to: set common goals in order to promote the special requirements of its members to information publishers draw common policies support other fields of cooperation aimed at providing quality of access and expansion of e- information for the academic and research communities.

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 8/56 SELL Statements 2001: “Why some libraries and consortia are paying too much for e-information” 2002: Statement on VAT 2004: “New pricing model of Elsevier for ScienceDirect”

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 9/56 Why some libraries are paying too much Model prices based on ‘nordic’ countries FTE non applicable Campus licenses non applicable University teaching based on lectures and studying notes Universities play an occupational role for young people A very low knowledge of English (even among the university population)

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 10/56 Statement on VAT SELL libraries pay the highest VAT rate for electronic information. SELL asserts that:  scientific, research and educational e- information must be taxed at the same rate as information in print  it is highly required that governments apply VAT at either reduced or zero rates  it is essential to reach the lowest equal rate for print and electronic information

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B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 18/56 More licensed databases DATABASENUMBER OF SUBSCRIPTIONS WoS.10 MATHSCINET7 IEEE7 MEDLINE6 PERIODICAL I.6 BUSINESS S.6

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 19/56 More licensed e- journals E-MAGAZINENUMBER OF SUBSCRIPTIONS ELSEVIER12 KLUWER10 SPRINGER9 BLACKWELL9 WILEY8 ACS8

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 20/56 Optimal consortial deals Core subscriptions interdisciplinary if is possible Full text ‘Fair’ model prices Clear & Sustainable Based on small increases regarding previous expenses in exchange for more access

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B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 22/56 Licensing power € NUMBER OF CONSORTIA 0.5 – 1.5 M – 3.5 M.3 > 7 M.3

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B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 25/56 South vs Central & North Founded same years More public and school libraries In C&N consortia Similar level of activities The most important e- resources licensed at the same level but more in C&N

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 26/56 South libraries (only?) Handicaps Less resources Less central money Less tradition Weak library directorship Challenges Coordination in ‘big’ countries Extend licensing to research centers and other libraries

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B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 28/56 Consortia and OA Green road (IR) Golden road (e- journals)

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 29/56 OA = opportunities Make national scientific production more visible Help universities to improve their research quality and journals Libraries could be more relevant for universities !!!

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 30/56 Repositories function Increase the amount of information available on the Web and offer it in an open and interoperable way Guarantee present and future access Allow use and ‘reuse’ In future applications In different applications

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 31/56 Type of repositories Individual vs. Collective Specialized vs. Institutional Monoformat vs. Multiformat Monofunctionalvs. Multifunctional In the future we will have to use and manage different repositories: some of them local,most of them remote

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 32/56 PLEIADI Portal for Italian scholarly e- literature in open archives and IR Collaboration between 2 consortia (CASPUR & CILEA) Aim: building a national platform that offers centralized access to the scholarly literature archived in Italian repositories

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 33/56 2 level architecture IR repositories in universities Data and metadata OAI Portal (PLEIADI) Collect metadata by harvesting Metadata are filtered (crosswalking), normalized and indexed PLEIADI = joint search interface & services

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B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 40/56 RECERCAT Cooperative repository of working papers For universities and research centers Collaboration between 2 consortia (Cesca – computing & CBUC - libraries) Open access to full text under CC licence of Recognition-NonCommercial-Without DerivateWork Open code Software: DSpace Chosen by a work group

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 41/56 RECERCAT University libraries promote self archiving Collect data Introduce metadata CBUC – Cesca Defines procedures Support the server Guarantees preservation

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B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 46/56 RACO Open access portal for disseminating and increasing the visibility of scholarly journals published in Catalonia Nearly 300 Now 92 in RACO

B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 47/56 RACO Open access to full text (some of them with mooving wall) At present 16 participant institutions Project economically supported by the Catalan government Working methods similar to RECERCAT Open code software: OJS

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B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 54/56 Collective decisions (software, metadata, advocacy...) Consolidation and prestige (more documents, more accesses...) Visibility Preservation Immediate participation with established procedures: Technology (hardware, software, OAI, etc.) Legal topics (type of agreements and contracts) Technical and management topics (maintenance of the database, advising, intranet, etc.) Advantages of collective repositories

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B1/bdig/0604UKSG.ppt 56/56 More information Gran Capità, 2-4. Edifici NEXUS, 3a planta Barcelona (Spain) Questions?