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RE: FTE-based pricing
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- Subject: RE: FTE-based pricing
- From: "John McDonald" <jmcdonald@library.caltech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:28:05 EDT
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I disagree. Every academic research library in the nation already negotiates nearly every single year with nearly every single publisher. If not individually then in small collectives. Or we use vendors who have to dig out pricing information from publishers and match that to the relevant demographic data required for the hundreds of pricing models already in place. How many FTE do you have? Not including staff? Including only those in particular subjects? What's your Carnegie class? Do you have a med school? etc. and so on. Usage based pricing is closer than you think. In fact, we have a number of publishers already using it - namely Society publishers where usage pricing is a positive and beneficial way to distribute costs across subscribers. There are only a few issues to address before using these types of models: 1. Standard usage statistics (and a way to audit them) 2. A balance against excessive or minimal usage (for both publishers and libraries) 3. A process for adjusting pricing from year to year 4. Agreement on price per use (reasonable for both publishers and libraries) #1 is nearly done, although auditing of publisher statistics should be performed at the local level #2 is easy to accomplish in a number of ways (see Science's tiered usage bands for an example) #3 is easy to do, just look at Toby's logical example from the previous message #4 is the hard part Small publishers that can't collectively bargain with individual subscribers will adopt the pricing policies and models in use by big publishers. They did it with online journal publishing and licensing models in the recent past. Thanks, John McDonald Acquisitions Librarian California Institute of Technology -----Original Message----- [mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Gottlieb Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:19 PM To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu Subject: Re: FTE-based pricing Toby's proposal is quite logical. However quite impractical. It calls for the publisher to negotiate, monitor and periodically adjust the contract terms for every institutional subscription. Additional staff of one to three moderately competent staffers to manage a single journal. Now consider that a given publisher might have 10-30-50, or in the case of the giants, hundreds of journals.All of these costs will affect pricing negatively. Won't happen. Dick Gottlieb Grey House
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