EBooks, EJournals, Multimedia: New Approaches to Publishing

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E-Books, E-Journals, Multimedia New Approaches
to Publishing

• Rachel Yee
• General Manager of EBSCO Information Services for
  Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao
• May 10, 2002 Philippines

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Outline

• Introduction
• Change in Time
• Change in Reading
• E-resources
• E-Book, E-Journals, E-Database
• The Change in Publishing
• QA

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Introduction

• EBSCO Subscription Service (ESS)
• Founded in 1940
• 30 Offices around the world
• Titles data over 260,000
• Becoming EBSCO Information Service (EIS)
• Not only print service (in 1997)
• Database, Books, E-Journal
• Utilizing and Integrating all our services

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Change in Time

• Life is changing
• Records.
• Letters ...
• Film...
• Communication on internet
• The format of media is changing
• Paper to
• CD to
• Online

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Change in Reading

• Trend/Fashion
• Easy access
• Time saving
• Searchable
• Linkable
• Imperishable
• Unlimited resource

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E-Resources

• Adopt the change for the market
• Digitalize the content
• Customize the format
• Personalize the access
• Thus, E-book, E-database, and E-journal come into
  our lives and play very important role for the
  concept of virtual library.

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E-Book

• Things to consider
• Keep up with current edition ?
• Still use the traditional renting policy ?
• Fix annual access fee for same title ?
• Is it suitable for reader to read over 100 pages
  online?
• Can the citation be valued ? (linking capability)
• Searchable ?
• Printing??
• Characteristics
• No longer bother by library hours
• Highlight, mark, and print the first quality page

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E-Database E-Journals

• Close relation
• They are all periodicals
• The are all searchable
• Separate functionalities
• Huge collection for database
• Subject oriented for E-Journal
• History analysis go for database
• Current focus go for E-Journal

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E-Journal Progression
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Print is still being tied to the online edition
most of the time
A print subscription is required in order to get
the online
Online is available without purchase of print
Based on EBSCOs title file
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Traditional Pricing Models

• Print and Online
• Free with Print
• 64 (39 of total online listings)
• Paid with Print
• 36 (22 of total online listings)
• Online Only
• 73 with print counterpart (29 of total)
• 27 without print counterpart (10 of total)

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Challenges with existing model

• When model shifts from free to paid
• Will library pay for online?
• Timing of price announcements
• Moving orders delays access
• Most activity from 2001-2002
• Wiley
• American Medical Association
• American Physiological Society

Fee Based Service !!!
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Emerging Price Models

• Flip Pricing
• DDP - Deeply Discounted Price
• Consortia

• Kluwer/Oxford
• Share all the holdings
• Fee based on current holdings

• Blackwell/MCB
• Package titles
• Fix fee for different FTE

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The Flip

• Bulk of price from print to electronic
• Usually negotiated with a consortium
• Print available at a DDP (Deeply Discounted
  Price)

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DDP (Deeply Discounted Price)

• May be set or vary by library
• Academic Press - 25
• Elsevier - for 2003 - 25 (AP Model)
• Wiley (10)
• Springer (10-25 not set)
• Kluwer (not set)

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DIS-INTERMEDIATION

• DEFINITION to remove the middle layers of the
  supply chain so that consumers can go direct
• to the manufacturer.
• The B2B Movement has everyone looking for ways
  to cut out the middle man

• B2B means B to B or Business to Business.

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Consortia Model

• Pay for online as a package
• Pay for print at DDP
• Sample Model (Elsevier)

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Elsevier Science launches ScienceDirect E-Choice

• offers each licensee the opportunity to purchase
  print subscriptions to the same selected titles
  at deeply discounted prices DDP
• no requirement that any ScienceDirect E-Choice
  licensee maintain print subscriptions.

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Challenges with New Pricing

• Prices vary (DDP)
• Negotiated Pricing
• FTE-based
• Consortia

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The universe of information continues to expand
faster than we can keep up.

• you, the librarian must help to bring order out
  of the chaos .
• .civilization out of the jungle.
• - John B. DeVette
• EBSCO Asia General Manager

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