CAIRN Chercher : Repérer : Progresser 20/03/2009 1 { } CAIRN A mutualist approach for distributing online contents in the humanities APM 2009 Conference

CAIRNChercher : Repérer : Progresser 20/03/2009

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CAIRN

A mutualist approach for distributing online contents in the humanities

APM 2009 Conference – March 20th

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Context (1/2)

2005 - 95 % of French universities budget dedicated to electronic journals acquisitions concerned english-speaking ones

French-speaking journals disqualification : dramatic impact of online referencing for authors

Existing projects concentrate on a patrimonial and pure open access approach : Gallica, Revues.org, Persée

demand for current digital contents in French language


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Context (2/2)

Atomization of academic publishing structures in the SHS

Technical and organizational limits of individual experiences

Slow but structural decrease for printed journals subcriptions

Huge aggregators perceived as a strategic threat

publishers relunctance to come to double publication


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Cairn (1/2)

An initiative launched in 2005 by … French (La Découverte, Belin, Erès) and Belgian (De Boeck)

publishers Belgian institutionnal investors (Université de Liège)

With the support of …

French National Library - BnF National Center for Books - CNL

… to propose a balanced approach :

Publishers & Users Private & Public Belgian & French actors


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Cairn (2/2)

A plaform : www.cairn.info …

…. giving access to major academic journals in full text …

… in the Humanities and social sciences only …

… but also to « general interest » journals of academic level …

…. focussed on current issues : from 2001 until the very last issue released in print format


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Access model – the « moving wall »

Open access …

• Metadata for each articles : abstracts, indexes• Introductions, editorials, book reviews• Archives behind the moving wall fixed by each publisher

… and conditionnal access : full text for the latest issues

• Individuals : pay-per-view• Institutions : annual licencing for general or thematic packages


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Publishers’ choices

2 years : 3,1 %3 years : 35,1 %4 years : 37,1 %5 years : 24,7 %(On average : 3,8 years)

2000 2005 2009


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Observations (1/3)

The mutualist approach seem to be quite appropriate

• The « thresold effect » for libraries• Recurring investments needed to construct value-added services• Economies of scale in production and promotion

The moving wall approach has been well accepted

The economic model has progessively come to be sustainable

• From 20 % to 30 % of academic journals incomes• 100 pay-per-view daily purchases on average• Diffusion into 250 institutions


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Consultations - www.cairn.info - march 2006 to march 2009


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Cairn’s institutionnal licensing – number of licenses


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Observations (2/3)

Users’ profiles are actually quite diversified …

• Frontier between academic and high-level non academlc publications seem to be quite thin in the Humanities and social sciences …

• … as well as the frontier between the academic environment, professionnal ones and growing part of « leisure users »

… and their demand are evolving quite quickly

• Journals have led to demands for other contents

• Which would required new models for publishers


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Online enquiry – Autumn 2008 – Users’ profiles


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Online enquiry – Autumn 2008Users’ demand for diversification


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Observations (3/3)

Some specificities observed for publications in SHS

• Given the data observed on www.cairn.info, consultations for academic journals in SHS are visibly long lasting

• A degressive but flat curve for consultations - a « long trail » phenomenon for SHS publications ?

Some possible lectures …

• French and Belgian publishers have accepted that arround 66 % of the potential digital content market is now released online in open access

• legal deposit after 12 or 18 months, as it was proposed in the European Commission mainly based on observations made for STM journals, may unsettle the actual model for SHS online publication


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SHS long trail phenomenon

Dispersion of consultations according to the date of publication for articles

66 % Conditionnal 33 % Open-access


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SHS Long trail phenomenon

50 % Publishers’

projects

50 % - Patrimonial projects

66%33 %


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SHS Long trail phenomenon

15 ?

85 % - Patrimonial projects


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Documents

CAIRN Chercher : Repérer : Progresser 20/03/2009 1 { } CAIRN A mutualist approach for distributing online contents in the humanities APM 2009 Conference