Deux très brèves présentations sur la question: d'une part le point de vue d'un agrégateur , d'autre part celui d'une BU .

(source: Waller, Andrew and Wrightq, Clive Journal aggregators: making informed decisions., 2009 . In Canadian Association of Learned Journals (CALJ) conference , Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 26-27, 2009. (Unpublished) [Presentation] / déposé sur E-LIS, 10/06/09)

Après d'autres institutions, c'est au tour de la California Digital Library de solliciter les fournisseurs de ressources documentaires sous licence: Open Letter to Licensed Content Providers .

"The University of California Libraries ask all information providers with whom we negotiate content licenses to respond to the major fiscal challenges affecting higher education in California in a spirit of collaboration and mutual problem-solving. We expect to work with each of our vendors at renewal to develop creative solutions that can preserve the greatest amount of content to meet the information needs of the University of California’s students, faculty, and researchers.

The economic crisis affecting libraries is particularly acute in California, which as of this writing (May 2009) is forecasting a $21 billion state budget shortfall for 2010 despite previous efforts to close a $42 billion budget gap in 2009. As a state-supported institution, the University of California has experienced significant budget reductions in fiscal year 2009, with more reductions to come. Coupled with the typical inflationary increases for scholarly publications, the erosion of library buying power will have a profound and lasting impact on all of the UC libraries. We welcome all innovative proposals for managing through these difficult times."

Sur la liste lib-license: à diffuser (et pas seulement dans le biblio-milieu; les académiques/autorités universitaires devraient sans doute se joindre au débat...):

Dear license gurus (please excuse the duplicate postings)

Another company is looking at the Elsevier model and using it.
Unfortunately, unlike Elsevier where a library might get more content than they could pay for and unlike Elsevier which does not require that a library participate, Wiley is requiring all multi-site libraries to have a no-cancellation, minimum life time spend.  Add insult to injury, we are not a multi-site library by any other vendor's definition!  But Wiley has designated us so.
Without recourse.

So, I am sending this letter to many, many people at Wiley and in the library community. Please, help resist these kinds of publisher practices.

*****

I am writing to you today in your capacity as someone concerned with [higher education, customer service] at John Wiley and Sons.

Wiley provides an EAL license which has three major features: two year agreement, a guaranteed minimum spend (no cancellations without adding titles) (ala Elsevier) and, for that 'lock-in,'
libraries will have a cap on the annual inflationary increases.
Wiley requires multi-site libraries - which they have declared we are - enter into an EAL license for electronic journal content.

We have two problems with this rigid requirement:

1.     Wiley is now treating my university as a multi-campus
university. Let me assure you that all other vendors treat us a single site because, while we have libraries in Minneapolis and St. Paul, we have a single IP address, single president, and a single Accounts Payable for all campuses (including Rome which has 4 seminarians studying abroad!).

2.     The EAL license is required for all online journal content
we purchase from Wiley/Blackwell in 2010. Currently, our online-only spend is about $3,000, our print +online is over $33,000, and our total spend is about $66,000 for journal content with Wiley.  What does that mean for the University of St.
Thomas?  We would not be able to cancel - i.e. lower our 'current' spend. That means that as tuition dollars dry up, as the university's contribution to the libraries shrink, we cannot cancel titles in the Wiley contract. It's ironic that while we would be locked into a multi-year contract during these incredibly unpredictable and difficult financial times, Wiley could change their title list at will - buying or selling titles as the market dictates.

We have spoken with your representative, Diane Conroy, and there are no alternatives IF we want online journal content from Wiley.
She is adamant.

Hence, our only option is to cancel all of our online content. I assume that is not Wiley's goal but the only one we see available to us since we cannot agree to a multi-year, dollar spend commitment.  We will cancel what we can - I can see about $30,000 in cancellations (27 titles) without too much pain. We will purchase print-only in the cases where we have had print +online and we will cancel our online-only and move back to print-only.
As we all know, even good content that is print-only will become marginalized by our users and as it does, we'll easily be able to justify canceling the remaining print titles. And, of course, we will not be purchasing new journal content from Wiley.

When September comes, if we have no agreement with Wiley for 2010 permitting cancellation and permitting single year subscriptions, we will have to take these draconian steps.

I will be sharing this letter with the Wiley board of directors, others in Wiley management, the serials community, the licensing community and other colleagues in the library community.

Thank you for your attention.

Sincerely,


CC:  Warren J. Baker, President
California Polytechnic State University Bonnie Lieberman,
Senior Vice-President for Higher Education
John Wiley and Sons
Clifford Kline, Senior Vice-President
Customer Service and Distribution
John Wiley and Sons

***************************************
Linda Hulbert, Associate Director
Collection Management and Services O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library #5004 University of Saint Thomas

Les politiques européennes d’abonnement et de souscription aux périodiques électroniques: du financement à l’accès : problématiques, réalités, perspectives

"L’apparition de la documentation électronique, en particulier dans le domaine des périodiques, a profondément bouleversé les pratiques budgétaires traditionnelles et provoqué une explosion des coûts auxquels les organismes documentaires ne pourront plus faire face dans un avenir proche. Face à la construction de monopoles éditoriaux, les bibliothèques ont mutualisé leurs ressources afin d’établir un rapport de force. Chaque pays européen a construit une structure originale qui correspondait à l’approche qu’il avait développée de l’information scientifique et technique. Ces différentes structures ont accompli diverses réalisations, susceptibles aujourd’hui d’orienter une situation française en pleine mutation."

(source: Enssib, mémoire de fin d'étude du diplôme de conservateur portant sur les politiques européennes et les attentes institutionnelles en matière d’abonnement et de souscription aux périodiques électroniques, janvier 2009)

Pricing and other means of charging for scholarly journals: a literature review and commentary
(source: Learned Publishing, Volume 21, Number 4, October 2008 , pp. 248-272(25))

"There has been a clear upward trend over the past 50 years in traditional listed print subscription prices. The more recent trend towards electronic publishing has made possible new ways of charging for journals, such as differential pricing structures and bundling of journals which are purchased through license fees/charges (both of which enable libraries to buy significantly more journals, but at the same time make it more difficult to analyze prices). We are now also seeing a new emphasis on the 'author-side payment' model. This article analyzes pricing and charging policies and trends, illustrating how these are affected by the complexities of the evolving journal system."

SERU (Shared Electronic Resource Understanding), la fin des licences ?
(source: Couperin, France)

Un résumé en français de cette recommandation NISO publiée début de cette année, qui "ne se substitue pas à une licence, mais peut donner des éléments sur ce qui est généralement acquis en termes d’abonnement aux ressources électroniques."

Demystifying Batchload Analysis

A l'attention des collègues en charge des relations avec les éditeurs/fournisseurs de données bibliographiques.

Via Cataloging Futures

Lonsdale, Ray and Armstrong, Chris (2008), Aggre-culture: What do e-book aggegators offer?, Library & Information Update 7(4):pp. 28-33.

The market for e-books has taken off, particularly in the world of education. Aggregators provide easy access to large collections of titles from many publishers through a single interface. The article is a comparative review of ten aggregators with collections available in the UK, and points to emerging trends.

(Déposé sur E-LIS)

Galyani Moghaddam, Golnessa and Moballeghi, Mostafa (2007), The Importance of Aggregators for Libraries in the Digital Era. Interlending & Document Supply 35(4):pp. 222-225.

Aggregators are one of the important content providers for libraries. Libraries have been working with publishers and aggregators for many years; however, the issues related to aggregators are not well documented. Aggregators have been helping libraries to facilitate their services to users but they have some disadvantages for libraries such as the lack of library influence in selecting individual titles; the lack of control over the contents of aggregator packages and the confusion of library users when accessing different packages. This paper defines different types of aggregators and discusses their importance for libraries in the digital era. The paper provides a useful overview to researchers in any field, enabling them quickly to achieve a clear picture of aggregators in the electronic environment.

Déposé sur E-LIS (06/04/08)

Le JISC a publié une étude intitulée:

Scoping Study for a Registry of Electronic Journals That Indicates Where They Are Archived (pdf)

A propos de la nécessité d'un "registre", d'un outil où centraliser les informations relatives aux périodiques électroniques: où sont-ils archivés? quels sont les accès possibles? comment "tracer" les mouvements entre éditeurs, entre plateformes (agrégateurs et autres fournisseurs)? L'objectif serait bien évidemment de disposer d'une sorte de support d'aide à la décision (choix des types d'abonnements, choix des packages, etc.). L'étude passe en revue notamment une série d'initiatives qui se sont penchées ou se penchent sur cette question.

Via DigitalKoans