Spain: Library consortia activity in 2003-04

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SpainLibrary consortia activity in 2003-04

• Napoli, 14.05.04

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• Present situation
• Spanish coordination
• CBUCs activities

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Present situation

• 6 regional consortia
• (40 universities, 60 out of the whole)
• The aggregators establish virtual consortia where
  there are no regional ones
• Ministry of Educations help for the ISI-WoS
  license

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Licences

• Tendency of all consortia to license the same
  products
• Arisal of new problems
• Journal movement between publishers
• Statistics analysis
• Link maintenance
• Internal cost distribution formulae

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Chart

• Present situation
• Spanish coordination
• CBUCs activities

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Spanish Coordination

• First meeting between consortia in 2002
• 6 meetings up to now
• Will for coordination and joint licensing
• Up to now Wiley

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Nationwide licenses

• Difficulties
• Regional financing of universities
• No state money
• Licenses expire in different years
• Different approaches (pe or e!)
• Distance and difficulty meet frequently
• Mistrust (?)

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Coordination aims 2005

• Elsevier (many problems due to a new pricing
  model)
• KLI (because of the Kluwer partition into two
  groups)
• Compendex
• Cell Press
• VAT reduction

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A restraint to coordination

• 60 universities belong to a consortium
• The rest
• Some have joined purchasing coalitions
• Some have joined aggregators consortia
• Two possible models
• Coordination of the existing consortia
• Nationwide purchase through the Rectors
  Conference

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Chart

• Present situation
• Spanish coordination
• CBUCs activities

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CBUCs activities 2003-04 (1)

• Union catalogue
• 2.500.000 records
• 5.000.000 documents
• ILL 40.000 movements
• Training, translations, reports

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CBUCs activities 2003-04 (2)

• Licenses
• Contracting to the value of about 6 M euros
• Tendency not to contract much more (up to 8-9 M
  euros)
• Survey about e-journals usage
• To be published soon in D-Lib (June)

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CBUCs activities 2003-04 (3)

• E-theses
• Over 1.600
• Hosting offer to the rest of Spanish universities
• OAI compliant
• Catalan e-journals portal in project
• Decision to adopt Dspace as the software for the
  institutional repository