I'm just about finished renewing our journal subscriptions
for
2007. Each year I do this it becomes more complicated by
the
number of ways the various publishers establish pricing for
their
subscriptions. Gone are the good old days of individual
price
and institutional price with a few offering student pricing.
A
quick decision could be made based on the information
provided.
This lead me to think about consistency.
A great deal of progress has been made with usage
statistics.
COUNTER compliant reports are available from more publishers
and
becoming somewhat of an industry standard.
http://www.projectcoun
ter.org/
Licensing models available from http://www.licensingm
odels.com/
These standard licenses can be a useful reference for anyone
dealing with electronic resource licensing.
All this being said, it brought me to the thought of
standardized
pricing models. Could the basic methods of subscription
price
determination be simplified to 4 or 5 different methods?
For
example, tiered pricing. It seems that a fair number of
publishers use this method of determining renewal costs but
Tier
1 with one publisher can be very different from Tier 1 of
another
publisher. Could a standard be established that would be
workable for both publishers and libraries? FTE renewals
are
frequently done but the criteria varies widely for this too.
Basically this would be looking at the most frequently used
methods of renewal and seeing if a generic schedule of some
sort
could be developed. Certainly not a simple project but one
that
would make selecting and renewing journals much easier.
Any thoughts?
Audrey Bondar
Senior Information Resource Specialist
Henry Ford Hospital
Sladen Library
Detroit, MI 48202
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