——the study on PQDT Full Text Database
Peking University Library Xiaoxia Yao
June 13 th , 2014 yaoxx@calis.edu.cn

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DRAA Introduction
PQDT database Purchasing
The effectiveness of the consortium

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DRAA: Digital Resource Acquisition Alliance of Chinese Academic
Libraries
Purpose
 Cooperative purchasing
 Standardize and guide purchasing activities
 minimize spending while obtaining resources with the best prices and services guide coop erate
Best price purchasing libraries gather together acting as a consortia to purchase or import foreign databases as a whole

 DRAA council
 Formulate the development strategies and guide the implementation of DRAA
 Chairman：Director of PKU library
 Member: 33 librarians from 29 institutions
 DRAA Secretariat
 Business management ：DRAA Portal, DRAA
Proposal, DRAA training
 Located in PKU library
 Related Parties
 Organizers of Consortia
 Publishers
 Agencies
 Members

Negotiate with publishers,
Organize members to take part in database purchasing consortia
There are ten organizers in DRAA:
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Peking university library and Tsinghua university library organize most of the consortia, each of them organized more than 30 consortia in 2013
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Peking university medical library, China agriculture university and Shanghai JiaoTong university, each of them organized more than 10 consortia

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No.
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16
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18
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20
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Publishers
ASTM
Begell House
China InfoBank
CINFO
Emerald iGroup
Sage
Taylor & Francis
Thomson Legal & Regulatory
AiQinHair Company
Beijing Zhong Ke I/E Company
The Charlesworth Group
Springer
High Education Press
Dialog
Elsevier
SWETS
OCLC
Cengage Learning Gale
EBSCO
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26
27
28
29
30
No.
21
22
23
24
36
37
38
39
31
32
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Publishers
EI
Encyclopaedia Britannica
ISI
John Wiley
JSTOR
LexisNexis
Ovid Technologies
ProQuest
Thomson Reuters
OUP
Karger
TanWan Academic Online
Flysheet
Asia Pacific medical Information company
Nature
IET
RSC
CUP
IOP

 Authenticated by DRAA
 Imported and exported companies
 Contents Auditing
 Paying to publishers on behalf of libraries
 Help publishers do some training job

Up to June 1 st ,2014,
561 members,
1701 register users

cooperatively purchased databases from 1997 to 2013

type e-journals e-books
Full-text databases
Factual databases
A&I databases
Others
总计
Database number
44
Participant libraries
3278
12 153
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22
28
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1294
537
1481
312
132 7055
A & I databases, 28 factual databases, 22 others, 8 full textt databases, 18 e-jouranls, 44 e-books, 12
Statistic on the types of purchased databases in 2013

90,00%
80,00%
70,00%
60,00%
50,00%
40,00%
30,00%
20,00%
10,00%
0,00%
DRAA
84.92%
Regional consortia
66.83%
Buy through themselves
73.81%
Resource sharing
41.59%
The ways of database purchasing donation
17.46%
Free Access
48.89%
Others
7.62%
The preferred way of database subscription: DRAA

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95,00
90,00
85,00
80,00
75,00
70,00
65,00
60,00
55,00
50,00
64,73
05 年
69,11
06 年
72,46
07 年
69,34
68,46
08 年 09 年
70,64
69,00 68,79
69,78
70,12
10 年 11 年 12 年 13 年 14 年

 has provided professional negotiation that demonstrates the power of academic libraries in China
 has provided rich sources of information for teaching & research in
China, and has accelerated the use of foreign information resources
 has built a normative platform of cooperative purchasing for national academic libraries, and has also promoted the process of importing foreign databases
 has narrowed the gap between small libraries and big ones, greatly improving the quality of imported foreign databases
 has decreased costs and protected the interests of CALIS members

Integrated multifunctional platform
Database
Cooperate
• DRAA: mange and evaluate consortia
• Organizers: release the information on database purchasing
• members: online database trail and purchasing
• Publisher: buying database
Wikipedia
Management
Usage statistics
Evaluation
Center
Training
Center http://www.libconsortia.edu.cn

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The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses
 3 million searchable citations to dissertations and theses
 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format
 More than 80,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year

Applied Sciences(162781)
Social Sciences(98107)
Pure Sciences(77559)
Earth and Environmental
Sciences(30178)
Communications and the
Arts(26437)
Psychology(23639)
Biological Sciences(72864) Language, Literature, and
Linguistics(23172)
Education(41993)
Philosophy, Religion, and
Theology(11601)
Health Sciences(36401)
By July 16 th , 2014 ， Total number of PQDT full-text is 466,452

 Firstly, the institution should fill in a receipt and upload it to the DRAA portal
 Then, every participated member has to sign a purchasing agreement with ZhongKe I/E company（the agency of PQDT full-text database in China）
 After the payment, members can choose and submit dissertation and thesis orders to subscription system
 If the valid orders submitted by members did not reach the fixed number, the insufficient number will be selected and submitted by CALIS.
 Lastly, the whole full-text orders will be uploaded to
CALIS and other two servers in China to be visited

 "Unlimited cross access"
 Each end user can visit collections bought by their institutions and other participants
 It offers participants the right of permanent access to the full-texts bought by the consortium
 "cost savings”
 Each participant chooses a different collection and gathers them together to make the consortium having the most collections to be visited. CALIS is to make sure the
Uniqueness of the record
 The consortium avoids the duplication of abundant collections and generates significant cost savings on holding selection

 Members will continue to have the right to visit the resources of the consortium they have participated whatever they join the next year’s purchasing activity or not
 Whether a member joins the consortium later or exits earlier, this member will obtain the rights of long-term storage and permanent access of the full-texts they ordered
 CALIS provides long-term storage and permanent access service to PQDT full-text database consortium
 As long as one purchased a fixed number of dissertations and theses according to some deals and shared with others, it is allowed to visit the resources subscribed by old members

Developed by ZhongKe I/E company
The servers are deployed in three places

Participants work together to protect the entire consortium without repeating orders and avoid duplicated holdings for participated libraries

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More libraries join the resource sharing activities

 provides the guideline on the development of PQDT full-text database
 prompts libraries' investment on the resources of dissertation and thesis
 offered subsidies to participant member in CALIS phase one and phase two development
 organize the subscription, conduct the negotiations
 protect the interests of consortium members
 evaluate the database on contents, platform, usage statistic, publishers' service
 Cooperatively hold training to promote the consortium development, to train staff skills on database usage

 order dissertations and theses anytime and anywhere
 discuss other solutions, such as the way of interlibrary loan, document delivery, Pay per View (PPV) and so on
 promote the model on "unlimited cross access” and
"cost savings”to other databases
 provide different kinds of resource sharing models on cooperative purchasing under the support of publishers and agencies