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Academic Society Publishers, Accucoms and Consortia:

The Golden Triangle

Stefania Scala – Sales Manager Southern Europe

SELL 9th Annual Meeting 18-20 May 2009, Izmir - TURKEY Izmir Institute of Technology

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Agenda

• Setting the scene: brief overview of the scientific publishing market

• Adding new online resources in the current economic situation

• Position of Accucoms• Academic publishers represented by Accucoms• Brief overview of their contents• Proposal for a cross-country deal for SELL

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Setting the scene

Reference

“Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific

publication markets in Europe”

Final report - January 2006Commissioned by DG-Research, European Commission

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Setting the scene

• Science has a key role in fostering economic growth

• Scientific journals are an essential means of disseminating new knowledge in the academic community

• New technologies and Internet have improved the accessibility of scientific publications

• Access to literature relies on the library’s ability to pay the subscriptions

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Setting the scene

• Libraries gathered into consortia to share the benefits of access and improve their position to negotiate with publishers.

• Many publishers in the market • Two big groups of publishers:

– For-profits (FP), commercial publishers– Not-for-Profits (NFP), learned, academic societies &

university presses

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Setting the scene

• FP publishers have been the main impetus behind the growth of publishing activity and research (launching many new journals)

• NFP publishers – especially societies – have focused mainly on higher quality journals

• Prices per journal or per article are significantly higher for FP than NFP journals(given scientific field, a given level of quality, a given age of the journal)

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Setting the scene

Adding new resources, libraries and consortia need to take into account:

• Electronic revolution made especially desirable:– The diffusion of knowledge– To leave room open for new entry (many

different vendors)• Researchers need access to all good journals

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Setting the scene

• Readers want to read journals which publish the best authors

• Best authors wants to publish in highly-read journals

…………today one question arises……

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Setting the scene

Is it possible to add new resources in such global economic crisis?

Policy should make sure that market is sufficiently competitive and “dissemination

friendly”

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Setting the scene

Scientific publishing market to be competitive must act with the respect of these variables:

• Price lower prices are socially beneficial (more

users can access)• Quality

higher quality is also beneficial from a social point of view (better support to research)

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Adding new online resources

Predominant dimension of journal quality: • Impact Factor • Journal ranking

Additional parameters are necessary:• Speed of publication• Self-archiving allowed upon publication or in a short

delay• A&I services• Reference linking• Availability of digital archive • Long-term preservation provisions

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ACCUCOMS, which role in this scenario?

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• 2004 Pinar Erzin founded Accucoms (owner/managing director)

• 2009 – 25 staff in 5 countries, 2 offices in NL and US and a business that grows 70% per year

• Representation service for publishers who want a multilingual sales and customer service presence within Europe, US/Canada, Latin America

• Helping publishers to understand the digital content requirements of the library community

Accucoms background and role

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NFP Academic Publishers, which role in this scenario?

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NFP scholarly and society publishers wish:

• Increase dissemination of their content • Grow their international impact and reputation• Reach a broader audience• Understand local needs • Educate, being read as widely as possible• Negotiate consortia deals offering high quality contents at ….fair prices

NFP Publishers

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ACCUCOMS AND NFP ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS“THE IDEAL MARRIAGE”

• Accucoms 2004 quickly become leading provider of sales and marketing services to academic and professional publishers around the world

• 12 NFP publishers currently represented in Europe

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Publishers represented

Exclusive Representation in Europe

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Publishers represented

Publishers represented and brief overview of the quality of their contents

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CONTENTS OVERVIEW

• Official Journal of American College of Chest Physicians

• Unique Combination of Clinical Relevance and Research Content

• 2007 Impact Factor: 4.143 (6th of 34 respiratory journals)

• Complete archive back to 1935, freely available with a current subscription

• Indexed by Google

 

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• Cross-journal linking to free content

• Animation, Video, Multimedia availble

• Figures Downloadable Into PowerPoint

• Textbooks online later 2009 (in time for the 2010 subscription year). Subscribing to CHEST, institutions are eligible for discounts on the books package once online. 

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• Organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

• Publisher of “Pediatrics” since January 1948

• 2007 Impact Factor: 4.473 (the second highest impact factor among all journals in the field of pediatrics)

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AAP eJournal Collection all content, back to Vol. 1, No. 1 (eArchive) for all 5 journals:

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AAP eJournal Collection

The best in pediatrics all in one collection with the following main features:

• Citation management tools • Customizable e-mail alerts• Comprehensive searchable eArchive• PDA downloads• E-letters and Post-Publication Peer Reviews • LOCKSS compliant

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The American Journal of Psychiatrythe most widely read psychiatric journal in the world

New Features:

New Treatment in Psychiatry SeriesEach month a leading expert provides a hypothetical case vignette on a commonly encountered issue in patient care followed by a summary of the relevant research literature, plus offers recommendations of how to proceed with treatment.

AJP Audio — Each online issue includes a 30-minute downloadable .mp3 format program that contains highlights and selected findings from the issue

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PsychiatryOnline.com

is a powerful web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR® — the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world

• Journals and books integrated in a single interface• Unlimited downloads to PDA • Regular updating: APA Practice Guidelines posted when issued• Sophisticated semantic indexing to search across DSM-IV-TR®, books, and journals• Library branding• Archiving via LOCKSS

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Backfiles project 1884 – 1997: completes APA/APPI’s online journals back to Volume 1, Issue 1 (Am J Psychiatry dates back to 1844)

20,000+ articles added to online collection

Libraries gains perpetual access for one-time fee

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The American Society of Nephrology has more then 11,000 members all committed to preventing kidney diseases and performing cutting-edge medical research.

Building on a 40-year history, ASN brings rigor and integrity to all its work

Publisher of 2 leading journals not present in any medical database

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JASN - Journal of The American Society of NephrologyA journal dedicated to advancing the practice of renal medicine by reporting novel and rigorous clinical research.

Impact Factor (2007): 7.111

CJASN - Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrologyoriginal manuscripts involving high quality clinical research relevant to the broad area of clinical nephrology, hypertension, organ transplantation and critical care.

Epidemiological studies and evidence-based medicine are given high priority

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• Major international medical society publisher, publishing arm of The Royal Society of Medicine

• Multidisciplinary medical journals covering a wide range of topics: Epidemiology and Public Health AIDS and Sexuality Transmitted Disease Endocrinology Ethics History of Medicine Tropical Medicine Medical Screening

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• Access to all 17 RSM Press journals• Online archive with all available back content for each journal• COUNTER compliant usage statistics• Special dedicated webpage for librarians• Archiving by LOCKSS and Portico• Athens and Shibboleth authentication available• Present in EBSCOHost but with 2 years embargo

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• Digital initiative for the Geological Society’s bicentenary• Launched May 2007• Full online collection of all core Geological Society published

content back to 1811• Transactions, Memoirs, Engineering Geology Special

Publications only available within Lyell Collection • For 2009 – 250,000 peer-reviewed pages, 17,000 articles

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• The Rockefeller University started publishing in 1905

• It is committed to identifying and publishing the highest quality

research • It has become a pioneer in the application of new technologies

to scientific publishing

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• Journal of Biological Chemistrythe orginal international journal of cell biology

• Journal of Experimental Medicineit covers research areas as immunology, oncology, stem cells, virology, vaccines

• Journal of General Physiology original articles that elucidate important biological, chemical, or

physical mechanisms of broad physiological significance.

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• Subsidiary of learned societies

• Current major ownership: The French Physical Society

• Mission: to participate in the dissemination of knowledge

• Strengths: - Proximity to the different scientific communities- Editorial rigour (quality, selection committees)

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About 50 titles published (or web hosted) available as a single subscription or boundled in collections, covering:

Astronomy Engineering Chemistry Life Sciences Mathematics Computer Sciences Physics Health Science & Dentistry Social Sciences Humanities

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“Journal de Physique archive”

135 years of archives about 48.000 items available

One time purchase with local hosting option available

Perpetual access for 20 years with a customized fee (at the end of 20 years period EDP delivers a copy of the

archives to the customer)

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• THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE U.S. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FROM 1914

• ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY CITED MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE JOURNALS

• SPANS THE BIOLOGICAL, PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, AND MATHEMATICS

• IMPACT FACTOR 2007: 9.598

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• Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd (PEP) is a world-leading provider of journals, magazines, electronic products and publishing services

• Wholly-owned by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

• Portfolio of journals represent the best in mechanical engineering

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!! new “IMechE Journals Collection” !!

• The IMechE Journals Collection contains eighteen journals, including the prestigious: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Parts A-P; Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design; The International Journal of Engine Research, The IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996 

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The Royal Society is the national academy of sciences of the UK and the Commonwealth

Seven peer-reviewed journals covering:

- biological and physical sciences; - history and philosophy of science; - cross-disciplinary research at the interface between the …physical and life sciences

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Philosophical Transactions established 1665

the world’s first modern,scientific journal

established the principle of scientific priority

invented peer review

split into A and B in 1887

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Package S: The complete Excellence in Science Collection beginning 1665Journal of the Royal Society Interface Biology LettersProceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering SciencesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesNotes and Records of the Royal Society

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Top 100 Journals in Biology and Medicine

Together with SLA’s Centennial, the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division conducted a poll to identify the 100 most influential journals of Biology & Medicine over the last 100 years:

• American Journal of Psychiatry (APPI)• Annals of Forest Science (EDP Sciences)• Chest (ACCP)• Journal of Cell Biology (RUP)• Pediatrics (AAP)• PNAS• Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: ..Biological Sciences

INFLUENTIAL JOURNALS

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E-BOOKS

Survey from NetLibrary, the e-content division of OCLC, Nov 08

• Academic and public libraries: perceptions and usage of e-books currently and going forward within the UK

• Three-quarters of academic libraries and half of public libraries that responded intend to increase their collections of e-books over the next year, in spite of the current fiscal climate

• Nearly 300 libraries responded to the survey

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• Fast growing and innovative e-Books content provider, based in UK

• Thousands of leading eBooks covering academic medicine, allied healthcare, social sciences, medical education available on “123Library Platform”

• Hundreds of e-books added to 123Library monthly

• Instant trials for librarians

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List of current publishers available on 123Library platform:

Oxford University Press Informa Heathcare Radcliffe Publishing The Royal Society of Medicine Sage Publications Clinical Publishing Manson Dunedin Apply2Medicine

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Full flexibility and customization:

• “Pick & choose” option (Order one eBook a time)

• Order an entire collection of hundreds of eBooks

• “Pay As You Go” (no long term commitment) or

• Buy perpetual outright subscription

• Available collections about Psychology, Sociology, Healthcare, Research Method, Counselling & Psychotherapy

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• Printing allowed

• User-friendly 123 Library interface and search function

• All e-Books and content can be accessed, filtered and retrieved easily from any computer at any time

• Secure authentication system

• Monthly usage report

• Libraries can control and review their user eBooks access and value their investment.

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• If an eBook you need is not on our 123 Library online catalogue the 123Library team will retrieve the ebooks for you, free of charge.

• Save storage - use less space for storing thousands of eBooks.

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Platform system

• Librarian can buy a number of “electronic copies” …called “concurrent users”

• Then users can download the e-book on any device

• File expires after 14 days then it needs to be re-loaned

• Users can give the book back earlier than 14 days

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Platform system

• If a library buys 3 concurrent users, 3 people will be able to download the file of the eBook

• The 4th person will be denied the access unitl one of the 3 files downloaded expires or is returned

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Standard Pricing Model

• Price per concurrent users: 1 x print price for each concurrent users (usually1 concurrent for every 1000 FTEs)

• 7% year Platform fee (including year 1)

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Special offer for SELL MembersCross-Country Consortia proposal

• Discount on the price for concurrent users for books bought across different sites part of SELL (# of minimum sites independently of the country)*

• Discounted Platform annual fee for SELL members

*for orders collected within a certain date

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Accucoms availability to value and negotiate with all publishers represented

“Cross-Country Consortia proposal for SELL Members*”

First step: collecting interest from consortia and know their “priority publishers”

*Minimum number of new sites guaranteed in a certain date

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ACCUCOMS and Consortia: What is going on

• ANKOS Turkey Excellent ongoing communication with Emre Hasan Akbayrak, in charge

of negotiating with Accucoms Turkish fact sheets with contents details for each publishers sent to all

members by Emre Discounted prices depending on the # of sites, negotiated with Emre Once approved, forwarded to the members by Emre Trials officially announced to all members by Emre Then, Accucoms in agreement with Emre, contact each member in local

language to introduce trial contents in deep Situation at May 2009:

orders from members for 5 publishers running trials

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ACCUCOMS and Consortia: What is going on

• HEAL-LINK Greece Submitted offer for RS Package S for a small-medium sized consortium

to Heal-Link members through Mrs Claudine Dervos and Mr Georgiu Panos

Ongoing contacts with single libraries to collect interest Economical situation not positive

• Ongoing sales and promotional activities with representative and members of:CBUC Spain, CILEA and CIBER-CASPUR Italy, B-On and Porto Virtual Lirabry Portugal, Couperin France (contact with Agnes Banks from Accucoms based in Paris)

• CSIC Spain subscribed to Lyell Collection in 2009

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THANK YOU

Stefania Scala – Sales Manager Southern Europestefania.scala@accucoms.com