Beth BernhardtAssistant Dean for Collection Management and

Scholarly Communications UNC Greensboro

Pay Per View

orDéjà vu

UNC Greensboro 2002

• Carnegie Classification – Doctoral Univ. I

• FTE 10,751

• Collection– 2.7 million items (books, docs &

microforms)– 14,966 electronic journals– 149 online & CD-ROM databases

UNC Greensboro Present• Carnegie Classification – Doctoral Intensive Univ. I

• FTE is 18,500

• Collection– 2.8 million items (books, gov docs &

microforms)– 42,666 journals in Journal Finder– 400+ electronic databases

Why did we start a pay per view program?

• More journal titles to your users• More back files available• Quicker access to journal articles than conventional interlibrary loan

• Collection development tool

2002

Options at UNCG 2002-2004

• FirstSearch – 83 titles (added in 2002)• EBSCO – 1644 titles (added in 2002)• American Institute of Physics - 16 (added in

2003)• Ingenta – 318 titles (added in 2003)• Science Direct – 882 titles (added in 2003)• Wiley InterScience – 340 titles (added 1/2004)• OVID LWW – 187 titles (added 7/2004)

• TOTAL – 3470 titles

Criteria for selection

• Do not have a subscription to the journal

• Needed access to back files • Had print but there was a big

upcharge for online access • Have through an aggregator, but not

current access due to embargos

Setting up Access

• Added titles to our ERM• Added titles in the OPAC• Send all patrons through

authentication• Authentication alerted patrons that

they article they wanted would cost the library a certain amount of money

Problems with Pay Per View

• Reduced budgetary predictability• Potential for abuse• Barriers to users

EBSCO Usage Statistics2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Journals available 1644 1403 1443 401 245

Articles ordered 1169 829 835 217 83

Total number of journal titles used 360 320 305 91 36

Accesses through ERM 7296 7640 5752 1603 1215

Average Cost $19.48 $22.21 $24.83 $24.73 $29.90

Total Costs 2002

EBSCO 22,766.00$ FirstSearch 1,911.30$ Ingenta 815.65$ Science Direct 770.00$ Wiley 2,500.00$ Total 28,762.95$

Total if we subscribed to all the journals 194,563.00$

Total Costs 2003

EBSCO 18,411.00$ FirstSearch 2,622.30$ Ingenta 4,900.10$ Science Direct 3,256.00$ Wiley 15,000.00$ Total 44,189.40$

Total if we subscribed to all the journals 393,551.30$

Total Costs 2004EBSCO 20,754.50$ FirstSearch 3,250.40$ Ingenta 3,602.42$ Science Direct 3,124.00$ Wiley 10,155.00$ OVID 25,000.00$ Total 65,886.32$

Total if we subscribed to all the journals 587,427.70$

PPV – Impact on Collection Development

Overview of titles purchased

84%

9%7%

Unique Titles with4 or less articlespurchased

Unique Titles with5 to 9 articlespurchased

Unique Titles with10 or more articlespurchased

Impact on Collection Development

• Example of a title that will be added to the collection:

• Current Directions in Psychological Science– 19 articles for $21.00/per article were

purchased over 12 months – Purchasing pattern of 1 to 2 articles a month– Electronic subscription costs approximately

$280

The Carolina Consortium

• For 2005, 38 schools participated in one or more of the following deals– Blackwell – 714 titles– Springer – 1164 titles– Wiley – 300 titles

Big Deals in 2005-2006• Wiley titles

– 667 Wiley pay-per-view articles ordered from non-subscribed titles in 2004

– 93% of titles ordered through Wiley in 2004 were available through our consortia deal

• 2004 we paid $10155 in pay per view costs• 2005 we paid an extra $2754 to receive 250 Wiley titles via

the Carolina Consortium – Average $11.00 a title• Wiley title – American Journal of Medical

Genetics, Parts A, B, and C– 2004 Subscription cost = $9333 – 2004 PPV cost = 64 x $10 = $640 for 64 uses– 2005 Consortium cost = $11 for 221 uses

2009-2010 Cuts• $300,000 for books• $240,000 for Journals• $130,000 for databases

Really bad budget news

2011-2012 Cuts• $296,000 for Books• $260,000 for Journals• $232,000 for Databases• $268,500 OtherTOTAL $1,056,500

Really Really Bad Budget News

But wait there’s more!

• 2012-2013– Flat budget paid inflation with One

Time Money• 2013-2014

– Flat budget = 4 to 5% cut – Gave up 4 open positions

• 2014-2015 – 9% cut to collections

Déjà vu• Having to cut big deals• Looking at Pay Per View options

again• Asking publishers to setup Pay Per

View options again

Big Deals that were cut• IOP – canceled the deal and

subscriptions– Cost per use was $57.42

• Royal Society of Chemistry packages B and J – Cost per use was $84.96

• Sage Premier • Now Nature journals

Investigating

• Readcube – to access Nature journals– Nature Cell Biology $82 cost per use– Nature Neuroscience - $33 cost per use

• Investigate Get it Now. Right now it doesn’t work with our link resolver and system.

Thank you

Beth Bernhardt

Assistant Dean for Collection

Management and Scholarly Communcations

UNC Greensboro Beth_Bernhardt@uncg.edu

336-256-1210