The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices (fwd)

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Of possible interest.

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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:51:45 GMT
From: Amy Cole <amy.cole@researchandmarkets.com>
Subject: The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices

I enclose details of our new report on library database licensing 
practices.

The study presents data from 90 libraries - corporate, legal, 
college, public, state, and non-profit libraries - about their 
database licensing practices. More than half of the participating 
libraries are from the USA, and the rest are from Canada, 
Australia, the UK, and other countries. Data is broken out by 
type and size of library, we well as for overall level of 
database expenditure.

The 100+ page study, with more than 400 tables and charts, 
presents benchmarking data enabling librarians to compare their 
library's practices to peers in many areas related to licensing.

Metrics provided include: percentage of licenses from 
consortiums, spending on consortium dues, time spent seeking new 
consortium partners, number of consortium memberships maintained; 
growth rate in the percentage of licenses obtained through 
consortiums; expectation for consortium purchases in the future; 
number of licenses, growth rate in the number of licenses, 
spending on licenses for directories, electronic journals, 
e-books, and magazine/newspaper databases; future spending plans 
on all of the above; price inflation experienced for electronic 
resources in business, medical, humanities, financial, market 
research, social sciences and many other information categories; 
price inflation for e-books, electronic directories, journals, 
and newspaper/magazine databases; percentage of licenses that 
require passwords; percentage of licenses that have simultaneous 
access restrictions; spending on legal services related to 
licenses, percentage of libraries that have threatened to sue a 
database vendor; percentage of libraries that have been 
threatened with suits by database vendors; number of hours spent 
in reviewing license contracts; percentage of contracts that 
require contract terms be kept secret; level of awareness of the 
terms of other libraries contracts; contract terms regarding 
inter-library loan; success rates in seeking changes in license 
contracts; percentage of libraries that have paid an article 
processing fee or received a rebate as compensation for open 
access; number of articles obtained through digital repositories; 
planned development of digital repositories; use of journal 
archives provided for free after an embargo period; use of Google 
Scholar; percentage that report loss of perpetual access to 
journal archives; percentage of journal contracts that guarantee 
perpetual access; use of grants for financing databases; use of 
charge backs and departmental contributions to finance database 
licensing; percentage that outsource copyright clearance; plans 
for the elimination of paper-base course reserves; expectations 
for renewing current database subscriptions; number of databases 
tried on a free trial basis; rated reliability of usage 
statistics obtained from database vendors; staff time spent on 
service interruption issues.

For a complete overview of this report click on: 
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Amy Cole
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