1. The difficulties encountered in trying to
make eBook collections available to FE
Carolyn Alderson
JISC Collections
December 7, 2013 | Click: View=>Header&Footer | Slide 1

2. When it’s not Free!!
 Ebooks for FE in ‘library purchased’ context - Challenges
 Collections and Jisc bands
 The Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA) – usage based model
 eBooks Consortia Pilot – shared collection
 HE in FE:
– Jisc Collections Decision Tool and AAUs
– Case Study KAFEG (Kent consortium)
 Harnessing shared eBook interests
 Working with closed consortia/groups
JISC Collections
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3. FE in “purchased” context: Challenges
 FE Library
– Budget
– HE in FE
– Content
– Free trials and expectations
 Publishers
– Understanding the FE budget issue
– Internal barriers
 Jisc Collections
– Managing publisher expectations
– Opt in offers
JISC Collections

4. Opt-in Collection Pricing and Jisc Bands for FE
 Around 400 FE colleges in England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland
• A
0
• B
0
• C
1
• D
7
• E
60
• F
72
• G
52
• H
64
• I
93
• J
47
JISC Collections
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5. Collections in
the Jisc
Collections
Catalogue
JISC Collections
December 7, 2013 | Click: View=>Header&Footer | Slide 5

6. Alexander Street Press Offer to FE 2014 - Video
 JISC HE Band A pricing for Filmakers Library Online = £1,525 (c. 72% of US List)
 JISC HE Band A pricing for performance arts collections = £1,234 (c. 72% of US List)

FE JISC promotion – Alexander Street Press
Filmakers Library Online
nb: includes all videos from Volume I and Volume II
FE average list
price
£ 1,090
Single collection optional add-ons – performance arts – require Filmakers
subscription
Price applicable for each institution.
Dance in Video
Theatre in Video
Opera in Video
Classical Music in Video
JISC Collections
JISC price Minimum Number
of institutions
£ 500
£ 400
£ 300
FE average list price
£ 830
£ 830
£ 830
£ 830
20
30
50
JISC price
£ 200
£ 200
£ 200
£ 200
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7. The Evidence Based Acquisition Model
 What is it?
 Deposit up front
 Access all/defined content for a year and then chose what to keep to
value of deposit
 Usage data
 The EBA model and discussions with publishers
– EBASS25 project
– A ‘good fit’
JISC Collections
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8. http://ebass25.rhul.ac.uk
JISC Collections
23rd September 2013 | KAFEC| Slide 8

9. CUP EBA eBooks Offer HE & FE
 Institutions opt for 12 months or 6 months access to either all monographs or to
specified subject collections. The total list price of the complete monographs
collection is over £1,250,000.

12 month access option:

At the mid-point of the agreement (end of 6 months) institutions must use 33% of their upfront
payment by selecting books up to that value to keep in perpetuity by the end of the 7 th month. At
the end of the 12 month period the institution decides the remainder of the selection of books to
keep in perpetuity based on usage (or other criteria). This decision is made by the end of the
13th month.

6 month access option:

At the end of the 6 month period the institution shall decide the selection of books to keep in
perpetuity based on usage (or other criteria). This decision is made by the end of the 7th month

Lowest FE price £3,300 for access to a subject collection for 6 months:
–
Humanities, Social Sciences, or STM Collections
 Conclusion: Not affordable to FE generally when Opt In
JISC Collections
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10. EBA model – considerations for FE
Pros and Cons of the model
–Opt-in
–Each institution has to put an amount upfront
• What amount is relevant for FE?
• Essentially a paid for trial?
• How many title will the deposit buy at the end?
–MARC records
–No DRM so access to all content for a year or six months
–Usage analysis
• Find out which eBook titles get used by College and across FE
–Consortia pricing may make a difference
JISC Collections
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11. EBA Consortia pricing
 Commitment from participants
 Negotiate/agree with the Publisher(s) what the cost of a title
is for retaining perpetual access by all participating colleges
 Combine deposits from participating FE colleges as single
deposit
 Have the trial
 Review combined usage of eBooks
 Agree which eBooks to share / keep in perpetuity to the
value of the combined deposit
JISC Collections
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12. http://www.slideshare.net/sconul/jisc-e-books-consortia-project
JISC Collections
December 7, 2013 | Click: View=>Header&Footer | Slide 12

13. Jisc eBooks Consortia Project
 Based on a consortial business model trialled by Max Planck
Institute (Germany) and CBUC (Spain)
 Consortium of 6 academic libraries with large Engineering
Faculties
 6 publishers of engineering books (some large engineering
publishers excluded as libraries had existing big deals)
 Whenever one of the libraries purchased an eBook, all
libraries had access
 ‘Price multiplier’ negotiated with each publisher. In the pilot
this was paid by JISC Collections. In a ‘real life’ consortium it
would be split among the libraries
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14. Explaining how the model might work. All figures are
hypothetical
EXAMPLE
Library EXAMPLE COST of
No titles
titles
purchased purchased
Own
Use by
library's others of
use of
library’s
purchased purchased
titles
titles
Library's
Contribution
use of
% use of
by % used Total per
nonnonnonLibrary
purchased purchased
purchased
titles
total
Library 1
0
£0
0
0
1210
7.97%
£1,326
£1,326
Library 2
13
£1,500
252
2497
48
0.32%
£53
£1,553
Library 3
13
£1,300
320
1271
3828
25.21%
£4,196
£5,496
Library 4
34
£3,400
2246
3753
4932
32.48%
£5,407
£8,807
Library 5
15
£950
1491
4675
1633
10.76%
£1,790
£2,740
Library 6
25
£2,500
1589
3875
3532
23.26%
£3,872
£6,372
100
£9,650
5898
16071
15183
100.00%
£16,645
£26,295
Multiplier Agreed
2.725
Totals
Total cost to access same 100 titles without consortium x 6 libraries
Total cost to consortium
Saving
% Discount
JISC Collections
£60,000.00
£26,295
£33,705.47
56.18%
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15. HE in FE
 Things to check
 Does the FE College have an HE partner?
 Is the HE partner willing to look into extending access from their e-resource
licenses to incorporate HE in FE student users for key resources?
– Additional Authorised Users
– Jisc Collections: Decision Tool
JISC Collections
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16. JISC Collections
23rd September 2013 | KAFEC| Slide 16

17. KAFEC:
HE students in FE Colleges
Vicky Legge, Licensing Manager
JISC Collections
December 7, 2013 | Click: View=>Header&Footer | Slide 17

18. KAFEC – HE students in FE Colleges
KAFEC - Consortium of 6 Kent Colleges
5 of the 6 colleges have directly funded HE students
These HE students no longer have access to eResources via their partner university
Partner university validates courses, but they are no longer ‘their’ students
Students now belong to the college
FE College receives direct funding and student tuition fees
Colleges have a small window of time to provide eResources to support their HE
courses
Content not relevant to their FE students
JISC Collections
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19. KAFEC: Mostly about Journals
 Jisc Collections working with KAFEC
 6 key shared interest publishers identified
 5 Publishers offering free trials (to Dec)
 Majority of the publishers are NESLi2
 SAGE, Wiley, T&F, Elsevier, Springer and Emerald
 E.g. Wiley 50% discount FE price, Springer open trials to all FE
 Trials – Identify level of use of HE in FE / collections of interest
 Monitor Usage in JUSP
JISC Collections
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20. KAFEC: Considerations and Next Steps
 HE access by Shibboleth Credentials (UKAMF Helpdesk info provided)
 Not all institutions want to take part in the agreements
 Review usage in JUSP
–Can institutions offer HE-only Shibboleth access?
–HE-only deals and potential closed consortium offers
–Learn from discussions to potentially help other FE institutions
–Springer Feedback (all FE trials; journals and ebooks)
JISC Collections
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21. Harnessing Shared eBooks Interest
 Planning
– Leading the consortium / co-ordinating the activity
– Committing budget at the outset/ Setting Consortium objectives
– Which content and which model?
– Publishers (Collection, EBA) / Aggregators (Multiplier)
– Access arrangements [HE in FE?]
 Negotiating the deal
 Reporting and communication
 Invoicing and Single Payment
 Licensing
 Usage analysis
JISC Collections
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22. JISC Collections
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23. Thank you for listening
Anyone interested?
Carolyn Alderson
c.alderson@jisc-collections.ac.uk
JISC Collections
December 7, 2013 | | Slide 23