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Pour mes collègues ERM / BICfB:

PRG (Primary Research Group) va publier une enquête (payante) sur les pratiques des bibliothèques en matière de licences concernant les ressources électroniques.

"The study presents data from 90 libraries – corporate, legal, college, public, state, and non-profit libraries – about their database licensing practices. More than half of the participating libraries are from the USA, and the rest are from Canada, Australia, the UK, and other countries. Data is broken out by type and size of library, we well as for overall level of database expenditure. The 100+ page study, with more than 400 tables and charts, presents benchmarking data enabling librarians to compare their library’s practices to peers in many areas related to licensing. Metrics provided include: percentage of licenses from consortiums, spending on consortium dues, time spent seeking new consortium partners, number of consortium memberships maintained; growth rate in the percentage of licenses obtained through consortiums; expectation for consortium purchases in the future; number of licenses, growth rate in the number of licenses, spending on licenses for directories, electronic journals, e-books, and magazine/newspaper databases; future spending plans on all of the above; price inflation experienced for electronic resources in business, medical, humanities, financial,market research, social sciences and many other information categories; price inflation for e-books, electronic directories, journals, and newspaper/magazine databases; percentage of licenses that require passwords; percentage of licenses that have simultaneous access restrictions; spending on legal services related to licenses, percentage of libraries that have threatened to sue a database vendor; percentage of libraries that have been threatened with suits by database vendors; number of hours spent in reviewing license contracts; percentage of contracts that require contract terms be kept secret; level of awareness of the terms of other libraries contracts; contract terms regarding inter-library loan; success rates in seeking changes in license contracts;percentage of libraries that have paid an article processing fee or received a rebate as compensation for open access; number of articles obtained through digital repositories; planned development of digital repositories; use of journal archives provided for free after an embargo period; use of Google Scholar; percentage that report loss of perpetual access to journal archives; percentage of journal contracts that guarantee perpetual access; use of grants for financing databases; use of charge backs and departmental contributions to finance database licensing; percentage that outsource copyright clearance; plans for the elimination of paper-base course reserves; expectations for renewing current database subscriptions; number of databases tried on a free trial basis; rated reliability of usage statistics obtained from database vendors; staff time spent on service interruption issues."

Quelques tendances:

"• Mean spending by corporate and legal libraries in the sample on
Ebook licenses was $48,000.

• The mean number of independent licenses for electronic content
held by the libraries in the sample tripled from 2000 to 2007.

• 19.42% of the licenses held by the libraries in the sample
restricted the number of simultaneous users.

• Consortium purchases accounted for a mean of 30% of the database
licenses by the libraries in the sample.

• College/university libraries’ single largest consortium partner
accounted for a mean of just over 41% of contracts, twice as much as for
public or government and non-profit libraries.

• Participants reported spending an average of $7,300 on dues and
fees to consortiums.

• Libraries reported mean price increases for full text and
newspaper and magazine databases of 9.43% in the past year.

• The mean reported annual increase in the price of medical and
biochemical information was 8.13.

• Participants estimated spending an average of 290.49 hours of
library staff time reviewing contract terms from vendors of all kinds of
licenses for content in the past year.

• A shade more than 7% of the libraries in the sample had ever been
threatened by a publisher or information vendor with any form of legal
action for contract abrogation.

• Nineteen percent of libraries with expenditures below $35,000
believed they had “a good idea of what others were paying” fo rtheir
licenses, nearly four times the rate of libraries with database
expenditures exceeding $500,000.

• Twenty-three percent of the libraries in the sample currently had
institutional digital repositories.

• Just over 14% of all libraries surveyed indicated that they
extensively used free access to back issues of some journals that have
an “embargo” period before articles become available without charge."

Via ResourcesShelf

L'ICOLC 2007 se déroule cette année à Stockholm du 30 septembre au 3 octobre. Muriel Baguet (BSPO) et Maxime Lohisse (SCEB/BSPO) y représentent la BICfB.

Sessions (xls) || Programme (pdf)

Maybe intéressant pour mes collègues BICfB et ERM:
Patterns of E-Journal Use within the Anatolian University Library Consortium (Karasözen, Bülent and Kaygusuz, Ayhan and Batı Özen, Hacer (2007), sur E-LIS).