1. 1 News from the battlefield: Spain Núria Comellas (CBUC) ICOLC 11th Fall Meeting Paris, October 26 th 2009

2. 2/8 Context  Spain: 45M population, 1´5M students, 50 public universities + 27 private universities Just 1 national license: ISI WOK 8 academic consortia  including 3 “buying clubs”  and a network of research institutes’ libraries (CSIC)

3. 3/8 Spanish consortia and the crisis  Important budget cuts in some autonomous communities, affecting universities But no dramatic cancellations of licenses  Shock: 100% FECyT funding for WOK license coming to its end?  Coordination among Spanish consortia: price caps (following ICOLC declaration on crisis) fiscal issues (reduce/recover VAT for e-resources?) we are saying to publishers:  we want to maintain content  obtain new customers instead of charging us more

4. 4/8 CBUC and the crisis  Catalonia: 7M population, 200.000 students, 8 public universities + 3 private universities, National Library  Current budget (to pay 2010 subscriptions) was obtained in December 2008  Struggling with our library members to avoid “preventive cancellations”  No cancellations nor new subscriptions, just a few one- time payments (e-books)  Multiyear renewals for 2010, done: Springer and Nature (along with ordinary renewals: Elsevier, IEEE, Wiley, etc.) Trying to get the lower increases possible (3%?)

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6. 6/8 Feelings for 2010 (general)  Lack of precise instructions from Spanish government  16%  18% VAT for e-resources!  Consortia have been efficient and efective: don’t cut our budget! Information is essential in universities We have a lot more content than we had before We’ve restrained price caps  We’ll realize the real crisis impact later this year (will we be ready to react?)

7. 7/8 Feelings for 2010 (CBUC)  Our licensing budget comes mainly from universities: aprox. 80% universities (but suffering high deficit!) aprox. 20% government (lower next year?)  If government cuts its share of our budget, will universities be able to increase theirs? or will we have to start thinking of cancellations?  Multiyear deals to be negotiated for 2011: Blackwell, OUP, RSC, Sage, ORO, …

8. Thanks! Núria Comellas Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya ncomellas@cbuc.es www.cbuc.es