1. 1 The ER Year in Review  A lot happens in a year  88 active resources handled by Alliance staff  Active means the Alliance touches the resource in some way  795 Alliance libraries on the 88 subscriptions  47 Nonmember libraries on the 88 subscriptions  $2,501,161 billed to libraries ($2,380,187 billed to Alliance libraries; $120,973 billed to nonmembers)  Estimated savings: $1.2 million

2. 2 The ER Year in Review  10 New Products purchased out of 35  Annual Reviews ($10,476; $684 savings)  Chronicle of Higher Ed ($24,965; $16,035 savings)  Oxford Digital Ref ($36,500; $49,078 savings)  Soc Index/FT ($15,100; $3,020 savings)  Routledge Online ($8,685; $870 savings)  Old/New Testaments ($6,750; $3,250 savings)  MLA (Gale $20,178; $3,982 savings)  MLA (EBSCO $78,675; $15,935 savings)  PAIS ($33,564; $6,712 savings)  Play Index ($4,880; $1,460 savings)  Total Spend: $240,073; Total Savings: $114,138

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4. 4 The ER Year in Review  Increased participation:  Standard & Poor’s: $45,759 to $74,600  Literature Resource Center: $47,258 to $67,083  CINAHL (full text options): $36,820 to $61,077

5. 5 The ER Year in Review  48: The most resources purchased by a single library  5: The fewest resources purchased by a single library  24.9: Average number of resources purchased by an Alliance library  $9,416: least amount spent on resources by an Alliance Library  $225,166: most spent by an Alliance Library  $72,126: average spent by an Alliance Library

6. 6 Dollars Expended by Library

7. 7 Products Ordered by Library

8. 8 The ER Year in Review  Most active Resources  CINAHL (31; 15 are nonmembers) $61,077  Academic Universe (25) $282,008  ACS Web Editions (24) $27,920  America History and Life (23) $135,284  Historical Abstracts (21) $124,888  MLA-EBSCO (19) $79,765  CQ Researcher (19) $17,444  MathSciNet (19) $66,440  ACM Digital Library (18) $56,867

9. 9 The ER Year in Review  3: The smallest number of libraries on a subscription (ABI/INFORM; Annual Reviews; Inspec)  8: The number of resources with only 3 participants  Applied Science & Technology Index  Biological & Agricultural Index  Congressional Index  Education Index  Gold Rush  Polling the Nations  Refworks  Ulrich’s Serials Annalysis System  9.03: Average number of libraries on a subscription

10. 10 Elsevier ScienceDirect  16 libraries sharing 7 Unique Title Lists (UTLs)  Subject Collections: ($7,600 4-yr; $1,600 2- yr)  Life Science: $1,056,962  Physical Science: $1,459,019  Social Science: $264,412  Pay Per View at $23/article

11. 11 ScienceDirect UTLs UO, OSU, PSU$1,567,702$31,354 CWU, WOU$112,221$2,244 SU, SMU$108,894$2,178 OHSU, Whitman$79,057$1,481 MRY, EOU, WWU$27,911$558 Reed, Linf, Pacific$303,473$6,069 OIT$56,280$1,126

12. 12 ER Purchasing Program for Nonmembers  Nonmember ER Purchasing Program implemented July 2005  A non-Alliance library or group of libraries can participate in the ER program by paying a $300 fee for 2 years participation  Separate e-mail list for non-members will announce all new products, trials, renewals, etc.  Admin fee of $30 added to invoice  A group of libraries can join with a single fee, but can only have one contact that is responsible for all libraries in the group  8 individual libraries & one group of 8 libraries  Steering Team recommendation: do not increase member prices to add a nonmember into the subscription