Re: Interview with Springer's Derk Haank

[<Toby.GREEN@oecd.org>]

Couple of reactions: smaller journal publishers can swim together 
with the ALPSP Journal Collection - a mini-big (and 
not-for-profit) deal; secondly, monograph publishers should (and 
could) have reacted sooner to the realities of the way libraries 
spend their money. It's no use complaining that libraries chose 
to switch their spending away from monographs to journals and 
then electronic information services (which is really what the 
big deals are), the thing to do is to react and come up with a 
compelling business model that librarians will respond to. As 
I've said before, it is possible for monographs to be bundled 
into big deals that offer as much value as e-journal collections, 
it's something we've been doing for a decade and librarians have 
responded - our sales (and dissemination) have grown year-on-year 
since 2001. Other book publishers have done the same (e.g. OUP, 
World Bank) - the key is to offer compelling value.  Monograph 
bundles will work if the value is there -!

All it takes is for the smaller publishers to get together, start 
bundling and offer better value than the big boys!

Toby Green
Head of Publishing, OECD
Chair, ALPSP

----- Original Message -----
From: Sandy Thatcher [mailto:sandy.thatcher@alumni.princeton.edu]
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 03:22 AM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>;
Subject: Re: Interview with Springer's Derk Haank

Maybe for the big publishers and maybe for some libraries, but 
certainly not for all the smaller journal publishers whose 
journals get dropped because the Big Deals cost so much, not to 
mention the publishers of monographs whose sales have flatlined 
for years because of STM journal subscription costs. And how does 
that make this the best invention for scholarship overall?

Sandy Thatcher


At 8:25 PM -0500 1/19/11, Syun Tutiya wrote:
>Dear Sandy and Warren,
>
>Warren says:
>
>>  I tend not to respond to set ups like this for fear that I will
>>  get inundated with responses that I do not have the time or
>>  inclination to deal with. So with that caveat, I will tell you
>>  that I am a librarian who has been involved with the licensing
>>  of e-resources for over 14 years and I agree with Derk Haank.
>
>I am not a genuine librarian, but have been involved in e-journal
>etc licensing negotiations since 1999, in the other side of your
>world in the geographical and perhaps in the historical sense.
>I agree with Warren, who agrees with Derk Haank.  The Big Deal is
>the best invention as we can imagine.
>
>Best,
>
>Syun
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>Syun Tutiya
>Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences, Chiba University
>Address: Faculty of Letters, Chiba University
>Email: tutiya @ kenon.l.chiba-u.ac.jp