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ICOLC Conference Nashville 20 th September 2002 Keith Courtney Group Sales Director Taylor & Francis
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The Taylor & Francis Group Publishing activity Gordon & Breach integration Online sales offering
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The Taylor & Francis Group History Locations Imprints Subject Groups
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History 1798 Richard Taylor launched Philosophical Magazine 1852 William Francis, a chemist, joins Taylor 1880Printers and Publishers to Royal Society, Astronomical Society, Zoological Society etc. 1890 Pioneered abstracting journals with the launch of ‘Science Abstracts’ 1936 Established as a private limited company 1998 Had a great birthday party, floated on the London stock market, acquired Routledge 2002 Publishing over 750 journals and 1800 books
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Locations UK Corporate headquarters – London, Abingdon, Hove and Basingstoke USA – Philadelphia and New York Scandinavia – Oslo and Stockholm Singapore Sydney
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Imprints Taylor & Francis Carfax Dunitz Psychology Press Routledge Spon
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Subjects - STM Biomedicine Bioscience Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Computing Engineering Ergonomics Remote Sensing/GIS Physics
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Subjects – Social Sciences Area Studies Arts Behavioural Science Business and Economics Cultural Studies Education Geography Planning Gender Studies Law Psychology/Sociology Sports Medicine
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Subject Mix STM 265 titles (35%) Social Science/Humanities 485 titles (65%) Total 750 titles
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Publishing activity Publishing strategy Pricing Licensing Archiving Usage statistics Linking Electronic databases Retro-digitisation SARA
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Gordon & Breach Background to acquisition Primary objectives Current state of play
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Online Sales Offering - 2003 Background Offer Benefits Concerns
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Background Growth Performance Pressure to change Cancellation threat NESLI discussions
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The Offer Self-selection Maintain current spend/renewals Cancellation allowance of 3% in value Additional ‘online only’ titles @$150 each Non-consortia members @ $170 each Minimum order of 10 titles/$1500 No substitutions Includes access to archive
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Benefits Value for money Customer selects ‘wanted’ titles Ease of selection process Open to all libraries, consortia and others Vendor relationship encouraged
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Concerns No additional funds Knowing what you want, ‘big deal’ benefit Cross access – sharing resources The flip model – cancel all print Archive access after cancellation What happens in 2004
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