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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Agree with Melissa and IMO the smaller you are the more sense the big deals make (if you can afford them).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We broke a consortially brokered big deal last year when the Canadian Dollar tanked. After making some other more strategic cancellations
this year, we were hoping to rejoin that deal through the consortium but at a price closer to what our closest peer comparators were paying (for this particular deal our historic spend was higher than our peers). Not surprisingly, the publisher wasn’t interested
in playing ball on that, as it wouldn’t be fair to the other consortia members who’ve stuck with the deal. Our decision was to reinstate the bare minimum number of subscriptions* which should reduce our expenditure with this publisher by about 55%.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We remain amenable to rejoining the big deal if the publisher ever develops a pricing model that has like institutions paying like
prices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I do not anticipate that this will please our users, who have become accustomed to the all you can eat big deal smorgasbord, but
the bottom line is that this will provide us with budget flexibility for the next few years to improve funding to the things that matter – Special Collections, OA, Data, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">*in this case it will be about 35 titles decided by use (so mostly social sciences) – I could have easily made a case for about 100
other titles but the goal here was cost reduction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Melissa Belvadi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 9, 2015 11:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Harker, Karen<br>
<b>Cc:</b> eril-l@lists.eril-l.org; Colleen A McGhee-French<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] Is Breaking Up THAT Hard to Do?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I was just at the Charleston Conference where I heard a member of the audience at one session complain about having to pay for unused titles in a Big Deal package.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I thought it reflected a lack of understanding of what a Big Deal actually is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So I want to emphasize something Karen says here: "when we calculated the alternative of subscribing to the most used titles, would be more economical to split up".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Whenever I've done an analysis on our Big Deals that are based on historic spend, I find that the titles in our "core" (the basis for our price) are indeed by far the most heavily used. And
the smaller price we pay for "'all of the rest" is still very cost effective to have access to that long tail. That is, our cost per full text article used in the long tail is still well within our internal threshold for renewing journals, either in packages
or individually.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The important point here is to actually do that analysis, and don't think of the titles in the package that you don't use as "wasted money". <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You are paying a pittance per "all the rest" journal relative to their retail cost exactly because your use of them is expected to be very low and take the form of that "long tail" distribution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Melissa Belvadi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Harker, Karen <<a href="mailto:Karen.Harker@unt.edu" target="_blank">Karen.Harker@unt.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#44546A">We’ve been going through this process for the last several years. We evaluated every
journal package in terms of overall use, overall cost-per-use, cost per title, CPU for each title, distribution of use across titles (as in 80% of uses were for what % of titles), and the list-price CPU.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#44546A">There were some packages which were clearly not good deals. These were packages where
the distribution of usage across titles was very limited (80% of uses were from < 15% of titles), and which, when we calculated the alternative of subscribing to the most used titles, would be more economical to split up.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#44546A"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#44546A">There were other packages which clearly
<i>were</i> a good deal – low overall CPU, high distribution of usage across titles, and, most importantly, they were affordable. These we continued.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#44546A"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#44546A">Then there are those packages which were a good deal, but were unaffordable to continue.
These were the biggest of the big deals. These were the hardest to cut. By any measure, attempting to subscribe to the better-performing titles individually would have exceeded the cost of the package. But, taken as a single source of expenditures, they
were unsustainable. It was only after making these cuts (and explaining our intention to have to cut the biggest of the big deals) that the library was appropriated more funds. But this is only temporary…no more than 3 years. This decision will have to
be revisited. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#44546A"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calisto MT","serif";color:#44546A">The point it, breaking up a well-performing package is very, very hard to do. At some
point, you have to cut titles that have very low CPU’s or otherwise are a good value. It’s like getting very heavy mortgage at a very low rate. Yes, it’s a good deal, but if you don’t have the money in the budget, you have to pass on it.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Eril-l [mailto:<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Colleen A McGhee-French<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 09, 2015 10:05 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org" target="_blank">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] Is Breaking Up THAT Hard to Do?</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">I tried searching the archives of this list, but perhaps I am not doing it correctly. I couldn't find any discussion of the idea of/implementation of/success
with breaking up journal packages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Yet I would think we all have them - huge, huge journal packages, each containing more than 1200 or so journals, only a fraction of which are important/used -
sometimes very important/highly used, each also containing hundreds of journals that we're paying for that have not been used in the last several years, at least to our knowledge. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Or has your institution thought about it and figured, Hey - the very important journals are used SO MUCH that the package overall is actually fairly economical
and that <i>those</i> are the journals to concentrate on (rather than the huge number of unused journals)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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