How Swets can Help You with Budget Control

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How Swets can Help You with Budget Control Frans
van Ette Regional Director, Asia Pacific Brenda
Tang Country Manager, Taiwan
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Traditional Role of Agent
The Order Taker ?
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Simplification for Customers
Swets provides immensely valuable services for
customers
Without an agent
With an agent
With an agent
AGENT
Without an agent, customers need to utilise
personnel incur costs to deal with the
commercial and administrative workload of dealing
with hundreds if not thousands of publishers
With an agent, customers can focus on the core
needs of end users
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What about the future?
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Critical Trends

• E-contents increasing ? ? ?
• Strong trend towards e-only in 2012 50 of
  publishers business will consist of e-only
  products, PE will decrease from 22 in 2007 to
  10 in 2012 (1)
• Budget shrinking ? ? ?
• It may not be uncommon for library and consortia
  budgets to decline by double digits year over
  year. (2)
• Sources (1) Swets publisher survey
• (2) ICOLC Statement on the Global Economic
  Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses,
• 19 January, 2009

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Role of the agent in the changing environment
Customers
Trial test
Explore discovery
Deal making
Expansion
Acquire
Evaluation
Support
Administer
Access delivery
New
Existing
Taking advantage of full potential of E offers
Swets opportunity to go full circle in offering
value to both customers and publishers
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Our products services
Ca. 65.000 Publishers
Ca. 60.000 Customers
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SwetsWise supports the entire subscription life
cycle

• Modular
• Integrated
• Intuitive
• Content-driven

• SwetsWise has been designed to offer support in
  all aspects
• of the Subscription Life Cycle

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SwetsWise Selection Support

• Maximize Your Budget

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What the market is saying about evaluating
e-resources
Situation
Impact
Decision making requires combining disparate
sources of information
Time - Valuable time is spent harvesting and
consolidating information from multiple sources
Difficulty providing useful measurements to
justify purchasing decisions
Uncertainty - Resource selections may not be
based on relevant evidence
Comparing the value of resources purchased from
various suppliers is difficult
Inconsistency Cannot compare apples to
apples as there is no consistent form of data
measurement
Unable to easily share value measurements with
peer organizations or consortia
Poor Judgment Not able to leverage
comprehensive information within your
organization.
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The value of usage statistics
Usage stats are a key decision making tool and
becoming more important

• To measure value for money (cost per click)
• To inform purchase decisions
• To justify budgets to university
• To charge back to faculties
• To identify training issues
• To identify licensing issues
• To understand user behavior and trends

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The ideal decision support solution
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Collection and Consolidation Solution
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ScholarlyStats Consolidated Reports

• Consolidated Journal Report 1 Full-text
  article requests by Journal Title, Platform
  and Month
• Consolidated Book Report 1 Book Title
  Requests by Title, Platform and Month
• Consolidated Book Report 2 Book Section (i.e
  chapters) Requests by Title, Platform and Month
• Consolidated Database Report 1 Searches and
  Sessions by Month and Database
• Consolidated Database Report 2 Turnaways by
  Month and Service (publisher platform
• Consolidated Database Report 3 Searches and
  Sessions by Month and Service (publisher
  platforms)

Currently 50 Platforms Including ACS
Publications BioOne Blackwell Synergy Elsevier
Science Highwire Press IngentaConnect Meta
Press Nature Publishing Group OCLC Proquest Scitat
ion Thomson Gale
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Introducing SwetsWise Selection Support
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Introducing SwetsWise Selection Support

• Integrates usage statistics and pre-populated
  subscription holdings information into one
  easy-to-manage platform
• Retain a complete overview of your entire
  collection by uploading additional publications
  information
• Delivers the most important and reliable
  information necessary to determine the inherent
  value of your collection directly
• Creates usage, price and
• price-per-use reports all through a single
  interface

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What does it mean for you?
Benefits
Value
Save time Saves significant time so you can focus
on collection development decisions Improved
analysis View the price per use information for
every title in your eJournal collection Compare
apples to apples Easily compare identical cost
per use metrics across vendors monthly More
informed decision making Easily view and
manipulate for more insightful decision making
Effective Journal Collection View inherent
publication value, compare to peers and build the
best collection

• Collects and organizes your usage statistics and
  cost information
• Complete overview of your entire journal
  collections price and usage information
• Standardized reports of underlying usage trends
  including low-usage journals and price per use.
• Create a range of tailor-made, user specific
  reports
• Compare journals and databases and share
  information across a consortium

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Product Roadshow

• Kaohsiung
• 2 June (Tuesday)
• Howard Plaza Hotel
• Taichung
• 3 June (Wednesday)
• Evergreen Hotel
• Taipei
• 4 June (Thursday)
• Howard Plaza Hotel

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Thank you for your attention!