SELL 2010
France Country Report
Catherine Etienne & Mariette Naud
Consortium Couperin
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AGENDA
• Context – 2009
• Negotiations
• Various projects
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I – CONTEXT (2009)
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GENERAL DATA
• Higher education : 1 501 255 students, 10 190 permanent researchers
• CNRS : 11 600 permanent researchers, 7 600 non permanent researchers
(PhD students, postgraduates, associated researchers…)
• Schools : 7 000 researchers, 230 000 students
• Public spendings for STI
• 100 millions €
• Including 50 millions for high education libraries (+30 millions for
associated libraries)
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IMPACT OF THE CRISIS ?
• No significant cuts in the budgets of academic institutions so far
• But no significant decrease from the publishers either
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MEMBERS OF COUPERIN
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Created in 1999 by 4 universities
31/05/10 : 210 members
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78 schools
1 French institute abroad (Greece)
2 agencies
1 hospital
13 « grands établissements »
24 research organisations
91 universities
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Groupes de
veille
General Assembly
(210 members)
Administration
council
Prospective
department
E-books
division
Professional
Board
Coordination of
negociations
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6 thematic
divisions
Negotiators
II - NEGOTIATIONS
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GENERAL DATA
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64 negotiators, from all types of institutions, volunteering to negotiate.
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At the moment :
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147 « active » resources
126 have been (re)negotiated in 2009
About 150 resources not negotiated anymore / waiting to be negotiated / not
successfully negociated.
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STATISTICS (2008)
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203 members
131 negotiations
16 grouping of orders (ACS, Proquest Databases, BSP + Econlit, CAIRN, CNRC,
Dalloz, Le Doctrinal, Science Direct, IOP, Jstor, Lamyline, LexisNexis, SciFinder
Scholar, Springerlink, WOS, Wiley).
Number of contracts :
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
1172
1548
1803
1968
2096
Average number of contracts per institution :
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1-10
11-20
21-30
31-40
41-50
16,7%
42,3%
26,7%
9,5%
3,5%
1,5%
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SCIENCEDIRECT
• Negociation at the moment
• Help of JISC Collections / training with professional negotiators
• A negotiation concerning many institutions : Couperin’s members,
CNRS, CEA, INRA, INSERM…
• Hard to communicate on this specific negotiation as only two meetings
have taken place so far
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III- VARIOUS PROJECTS
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A NEW WEBSITE
• Necessity to renovate the consortium’s communication
• Collaboration between the two departments
• Four profiles of connexion/information : administrator, negotiator, contact,
member of the monitoring groups
• A modernisation of the appearance of the Website
• Confidential documents available only after authentification of the visitor
• Documents for the negotiators
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MONITORING GROUPS
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MESR used to supervise monitoring groups
Reorganisation of the ministry : Couperin volunteered to supervise the groups
Open to everybody, including non members of the consortium
Five themes : humanities, health and life sciences, sciences and technics, politics
and law, economics.
Goals :
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Provide new arguments to negotiate the resource
Be a help for librarians when chosing to buy the resource or not
Be a place of discussion and exchange
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E-BOOKS WORKSHOP
• A very active department
• Produces many documents, statements, and provides help and
support to negotiators of E-books
• Two days of meeting in Lille in May : « What services, for what uses? »
• An E-books comparer on Couperin’s website
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ICOLC IN PARIS
• 25-28 october 2009
• 130 colleagues
• 29 countries
• Positive feedbacks
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OPEN ACCESS
• Participation in the organisation of the conference of Berlin 7
• Redaction of the national report on the state of Open Access in France
with INIST and MESR (more tomorrow !)
• Participation in the director board of SPARC Europe
• European project Open AIRE
• Partnership with the University of Lund for the DOAJ since May 2010.
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THE ERMS
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A more detailed presentation tomorrow
Writing of the book of specifications
Call for tender at the end of April 2010
A pilot starting in September 2010
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PROJECTS FOR 2010-2011
• ERMS
• Feedbacks on the new Website
• OpenAIRE
• Monitoring groups
• Efficient training of the negotiators
• Creation of a statistics workshops
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