Readex
Archive of Americana
Presented by
David Braden, President of Readex
ICOLC Meeting
March 15, 2004
New Orleans, Louisiana
Readex
Archive of Americana
Presentation objectives:
• ICOLC
– Who?
– What?
• Readex
– Introduction to Readex
– Archive of Americana
– How much? – Prices, challenges
and offerings
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In conclusion:
• Digital initiatives at Readex have earned
both a leadership role and a leadership
responsibility.
• Readex welcomes the opportunity to
work with consortia and thus respond to
the expectations of the academic
community.
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Top Ten Sets (ARL Microform Survey)
1. Early American Imprints, Evans (Readex)
2. Early English Books -Wing (UMI)
3. Early American Imprints, ShawShoemaker (Readex)
4. Early English Books - Pollard and
Redgrave (UMI)
5. Three Centuries of English and American
Plays (Readex)
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Top Ten Sets (ARL Microform Survey)
6. American Periodicals: 1800-1850 (UMI)
7. English and American Plays of the
Nineteenth Century (Readex)
8. American Periodicals: 18th Century (UMI)
9. Landmarks of Science (Readex)
10. American Fiction - Wright (Gale)
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Comprehensive and coherent digital collections
spanning four centuries of life in America
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Getting started:
• Analysis of existing products and
standards
– JSTOR, Making of America, American
Memory
• Academic Advisory Boards
– Professors, librarians, digital experts
• Usability testing
– Williams College, Harvard University,
Dartmouth College, Readex facility
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Evans Advisory Board:
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Kerry Cochrane, Loyola Univ of Chicago
Nancy Godleski, Yale University
Betsey Patterson, Emory University
Glenda Pearson, University of
Washington
• Lisa Stimatz, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Perry Willett, Indiana University
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Serial Set Advisory Board:
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Charles Eckman, Stanford University
Gregory Harness, Senate Librarian
Cathy Hartman, University of North Texas
Donna Koepp, Harvard University
Mary Mallory, University of Illinois U-C
Richard McKinney, Board of Gov. of FRS
Sandra Peterson, Yale University
John Phillips, Oklahoma State University
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EAN Advisory Board:
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Charles Clark, Univ. of New Hampshire
Frank Conaway, University of Chicago
Susan Fales, Brigham Young University
Vincent Golden, American Antiquarian
Society
• John Fasley, University of Missouri
• Henry Snyder, U. of California, Riverside
• John Tofanelli, Columbia University
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Challenges and opportunities:
• The practice of purchasing through
consortia creates new challenges and
new opportunities for librarians and for
vendors.
• Some of those challenges and
opportunities...
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Internal challenges:
• What does the company think of its
products?
• What does the company think of its
customers?
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Consortia challenges:
• Increases distance between librarians/
users and the vendor
• Creates potential barrier to direct
exchange of ideas about product and
needs of the institution
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Consortia opportunities:
• Generates attention and helps set
agenda for new players
• Better communicates specific needs
and issues to vendor
• Expands the market
• Establishes a decision date
• Lowers price
• Mediates license agreement issues
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License Agreement Text:
Section 7.c: NewsBank will allow
customer to purchase magnetic tape
load of the Product (images and ASCII
database)…load onto a local server to
be accessed by Customer’s own search
and retrieval software. Customer and
Customer’s Authorized users may use
the archive as provided in Section 3….
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Evans tiered pricing model:
• Initial structure
– ARL
– non-ARL over 5K
– non-ARL under 5K
List Price
60% of list
40% of list
• Current structure
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ARL
non-ARL PhD
non-ARL over 5K
non-ARL under 5K
non-ARL under 2K
List price
80% of list
60% of list
40% of list
30% of list
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Pre-publication discounts:
• Beginning with 60% before production
begins, followed by periodic adjustments
through completion
• Example: Evans
full price third tier
– List upon completion
$107,500
– Less: microform trade-in -$20,000
– Subtotal
$87,500
– Initial offer (pre-pub)
$52,500
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$43,000
-$8,000
$35,000
$21,000
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Institutional discounts:
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Evans
Shaw-Shoemaker
Early American Newspapers
U.S. Congressional Serial Set
Total potential discount
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3%
4%
3%
15%
25%
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Consortia discounts:
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3 participants
4 participants
5 participants
each additional participant
10 or more participants
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1.5%
2.0%
2.5%
+ 1/2%
5.0%
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Discounts chained:
• List price upon completion =
100%
– Less: 40% pre-publication discount = 60%
– Less: 25% institutional discount =
45%
– Less: 5% consortia discount =
42.75%
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Deferred payment plans:
• All initial prices based on one-time single
payment shortly after placement of order
• Payment plan: deferral fees on unpaid
balances (equal principle payments)
– first year @ 1/2% per month
– second year @ 3/4% per month
– third year @ 1% per month
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Readex Digital Institute
– 2 1/2 day event (3 nights)
– 35 participants, 7 papers presented
• First Annual [2003] RDI Guest Speakers
– David Seaman, Digital Library Federation
– Mark Sandler, University of Michigan
– Chuck Eckman, Stanford University
– Coleen Cahill, Library of Congress
– George Barnham, GPO
– Maria Bond, University of Michigan
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Educational Training Program
• For Archive of Americana customers
– 2-day workshop (3 nights)
– 1 guest every three years (tuition, meals,
accommodations and travel all included as
part of annual maintenance fee)
– additional personnel may attend with
registration/tuition fee (covering
transportation costs)
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Educational Training Program
• Topics covered
– Content, features and functionality
– Hands-on training
– Bibliographic instruction (lessons, and
materials)
– Future developments
– Tour of Readex Digital facility
– Usability tests (optional)
– Focus groups (optional)
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In conclusion:
• Digital initiatives at Readex have earned
both a leadership role and a leadership
responsibility.
• Readex welcomes the opportunity to
work with consortia and thus respond to
the expectations of the academic
community.
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Archive of Americana
Contact information:
Academic & Research Library Division
NewsBank, inc.
5020 Tamiami Trail North, Suite 110
Naples, FL 34103
800.762.8182
sales@readex.com
www.readex.com
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