SELL 12th Meeting 2012 – 15-16th June, Thessaloniki COUNTRY REPORT - Italy

Summary  NEW CARE STRUCTURE  NATIONAL DEALS: Elsevier, Springer + Wiley Blackwell (NEW)  CIBER ACTIVITIES  ITALIAN AAI FEDERATION- IDEM  CONSORTIA MERGER

CARE and National Deals  New CARE – (National Acquisition Group established by CRUI- Italian Conference of Rectors) 12 members from Italian Universities New Elsevier contract under negotiations (2013-)  Contract out 3 negotiators on a consultancy basis 1 for legal issues, 1 for administrative issues (procurement, bidding rules etc) 1 for negotiating skills

CARE and National Deals  New Springer contract ( )  Negotiated by consortia with a rapresentative from CARE  New Wiley Blackwell (2013-) Negotiations will start soon – consortia + CARE  + 3 consultants (?)  Portico contract should be renegotiated in 2013 (new model: e-books and journals or only journals)

CIBER activities New contract with Tayor & Francis ( ) - economic conditions are satisfactory - license clauses are still under negotiations Wiley- Blackwell contract renewed for 1 year (2012) based on volume expenditure reduction based on 0 downloaded titles- Average reduction of 4 percent Current contracts : 3/4 Installment payments are in place with most publishers Price increase has been renegotiated with several publishers and currently it is never higher than 4% percent except few cases

CIBER activities (2) Few institutions stepped out of contracts due to serious budget constraints Opt-out and impact on license (% of opting-out members to renogotiate economic conditions) Single institution negotiation with publisher and its impact on consortial contract when institutions ask to enter again the consortial deal

CIBER activities (3) Discovery tools : Currently we are evaluating two offers: Primo Central (locally hosted) Summon (as KB) + VuFind (CILEA installation)

AAI Federation : IDEM  Steady increase of service providers, more and more publishers are joining the Italian AAI Federation  Big effort on consortia side to push publishers to join  Use of Shibboleth compliant EZ proxy to access publishers’ platform which are not federated yet

AAI Federation : IDEM (2)  Big effort to  promote AAI Federation within the library community  move from a hybrid and unefficient context: IP authentication, proxy server or VPN and authentication to AAI authentication as the preferred mode of access

AAI Federation : IDEM (3)  Through AAI Federation you get better usage statistics, more detailed and precise  make it easier for end-user to access resources (see NISO ExPresso guidelines)

AAI Federation : IDEM (4)  Still some issues to solve (e.g credentials use for personalized service within Publishers’ platform)  Poor collaboration between IT people and library community  The ID- Research Passport