Pay Per View
or
Déjà vu
Beth Bernhardt
Assistant Dean for Collection Management and
Scholarly Communications
UNC Greensboro
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
2002
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
Options at UNCG 2002-2004
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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 Statistics
2002
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
$19.48
$22.21
$24.83
$24.73
$29.90
Average Cost
Total Costs 2002
EBSCO
FirstSearch
Ingenta
Science Direct
Wiley
Total
$
$
$
$
$
$
22,766.00
1,911.30
815.65
770.00
2,500.00
28,762.95
Total if we
subscribed to
all the journals $ 194,563.00
Total Costs 2003
EBSCO
FirstSearch
Ingenta
Science Direct
Wiley
Total
Total if we
subscribed to
all the journals
$
$
$
$
$
$
18,411.00
2,622.30
4,900.10
3,256.00
15,000.00
44,189.40
$ 393,551.30
Total Costs 2004
EBSCO
FirstSearch
Ingenta
Science Direct
Wiley
OVID
Total
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
20,754.50
3,250.40
3,602.42
3,124.00
10,155.00
25,000.00
65,886.32
Total if we
subscribed to
all the journals
$ 587,427.70
PPV – Impact on Collection
Development
Unique Titles with
4 or less articles
purchased
7%
9% of titles purchased
Overview
Unique Titles with
5 to 9 articles
purchased
84%
Unique Titles with
10 or more articles
purchased
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
Really bad budget news
2009-2010 Cuts
• $300,000 for books
• $240,000 for Journals
• $130,000 for databases
Really Really Bad Budget News
2011-2012 Cuts
• $296,000 for Books
• $260,000 for Journals
• $232,000 for Databases
• $268,500 Other
TOTAL $1,056,500
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