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Pricing Electronic journals: non-profit and commercial lessons shared
John Cox
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State of the academic marketn USA: 60% of the market by value
but 30% of world librariesn Growth in library consortia buying
e-content: from 102 in 2000 to over 230 today
n Economy in cyclical downturn, but recovering
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Library cost structure
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Pricing based on subscription priceCABI Publishing:
Title: British Journal of NutritionPrint Online Online + print$ 905 $ 890 $ 940
Title: In vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology- Plant
Print Online Online + print$ 275 $ 263 $ 275
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Population-based modelsOUP: OED4 yr: 100% FTE2 yr: 50% FTECorp/Gov’t/military: 100% FTENon-profit org: 50% FTEPublic library: 2% - 4% of
population inbands
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Population-based modelsBMJ Publishing Group
Print Online Print + online
Small 100% 100% 110%(1-400)Medium 100% 125% 135%(401-1500)Large 100% 140% 150%(1501 +)
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Differential pricing: typeProject MUSE:
Type DiscountAcademic 0%Small academic 25%Community/2 yr 50%Special (Museum, Ass’n etc) 50%Public 75%High schools 87.5%
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Pricing for consortiaProject MUSE:
No of institutions Discount1-4 0%5-19 10%20-39 20%40-59 30%60-99 40%100 + 50%
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Differential pricing: servicen Blackwell, Elsevier, Wiley:
- Basic: limited period, limited usage – very basic functionality
- Premium: fully functional, continuing access, back files, articles on acceptance, search,etc.
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Value for money: role of cost per usen Two aspects:
- price per use: price divided by number of uses
- cost per use: library operational costs
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Price per use
Journal US$ cost No uses $ per useA 2,385 187 12.75B 398 6 66.33C 98 3 32.67D 5,922 183 32.36E 496 18 27.56F 1,389 52 26.71G 5,095 483 10.56H 14,669 1,777 8.25
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Cost per useType Operational cost
E-journalIndividual title subs $ 0.45Publisher’s packages $ 0.45Multi-publisher packages $ 0.45
Print journalsCurrent issues $ 6.00Bound volumes $30.00
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