1. 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

4. 1. The university Facultés Notre Dame de la Paix Namur Arts, Economics, Law, Sciences, Medecine, Informatics Institute Students 1 st cycle 3.940 2 nd cycle 459 3 rd cycle 115 PhD 280 Staff (FTE) academic 257 administrative 337 Research output ? CRef (Conseil des Recteurs des université francophones de Belgique)

5. 2. Bibliothèque Universitaire Moretus Plantin - BUMP Collections 2006 Books 700.000 Current serials print (subscriptions) 1.484 electronic (subscriptions) 2.942 electronic (consortia) 2.692 E-books 3.269 Databases 52 Use & users Users8.960 Loans 16.439 Visits 134.022 ILL outgoing requests 988 incoming requests 847

6. Budget 2007 library budget € 564.595 collection budget € 459.900 journals € 246.000 base value € 198.000 e-collections € 183.000 consortia € 132.000 abstracting & indexing databases [limited to listed infra] € 98.600 full text databases [limited to listed infra] € 54.500 e-books € 6.050 TOTAL € 159.150 Subvention > € 20.000 < € 30.000

7. 3. Consortia Partnership with(in) 3 library associations BICfB – Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Communauté française http://www.bicfb.be/ 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

8. BUMP’s E-ressources consortia Full Text databases E-Books Springer Online eBooks aug – dec 2006 134 jan – aug 2007 1037 FT - HTML – PDF searches 2006Average cost/ search 2007 (jan - aug) ACS16.755€ 8,69.787 Blackwell Synergy4.760€1,254.246 Business Source Premier__136 Institute of Physics Journals 611€ 2,88665 Nature Online__1.377 Springer Online4.760€ 3,124.246 Science Direct Journals48.207€ 1,9635.755

9. Abstracting & indexing databases records viewed2006average cost2007 (jan – aug) Current Contents Connect14. 551_2.959 EconLit [march-dec 2006]3.427€ 0,5639 Essential Science Indicators [searches] 653_478 Francis28.586€ 0,05…20.747 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.

10. 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 ?

11. Your questions

12. Thanks to my colleagues in Namur and Louvain-la-Neuve and for your attention