<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Scale (as in economies of...) is everything. What is your undergrad and grad FTE?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">You probably shouldn't compare your cost/FTE to an institution that has 50,000 undergrads if you have only 2,000.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Also if you have a professional consortium negotiating your prices, that can very well affect your price and thus your cost/fte.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We generally have MUCH better costs/FTE for products with consortial deals than those without.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">That said, we're a public university with a total FTE of just under 4,000, a few hundred of which is graduate level, mostly education, nursing, and business.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">If we're comparable to you, contact me directly, and I'd be happy to share at least some of those stats.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div>-- </div><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>User Experience & Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> <a href="tel:902-566-0581" value="+19025660581" target="_blank">902-566-0581</a></div>
<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Thomas, Karen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Karen.Thomas@delval.edu" target="_blank">Karen.Thomas@delval.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi all, <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I’m fairly new as an electronic librarian and have been asked by my VPPA and director to show cost per search/download for our databases. That I was able to accomplish well enough but I was hoping to have
some data to provide a benchmark. Is anyone willing to share their cost per search/download or is able to direct me to some useful information?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I’m particularly interested in:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Access Science<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">BioOne Combination<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">CQ Researcher<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Academic Search Complete<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Business Source<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Communication & Mass Media Complete<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Education Source<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Food Science Source<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Gale Virtual Reference Library<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Opposing Viewpoints<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">JStor<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lexis-Nexis Academic<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ABI/Inform Research<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Agriculture Journals<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Criminal Justice <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ScienceDirect<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">SciFinder Scholar<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks in advance!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Karen Sheldon<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Electronic and Instructional Services Librarian<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Delaware Valley University<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">700 East Butler Ave., Doylestown PA 18901<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="tel:215.489.4968" value="+12154894968" target="_blank">215.489.4968</a> | <a href="mailto:karen.thomas@delval.edu" target="_blank">
<span style="color:blue">karen.thomas@delval.edu</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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