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Can Agents Really Deliver on Their Digital Promises?
Fourteenth North Carolina Serials Conference, Chapel Hill, NC April 15, 2005
Bob Boissy
Manager, Subscription Agent Relations
Springer
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Digital Promises
• All scholarly journals will be available online
• All scholarly journals will be interlinked and highly accessible
• Scholarly journals online will be better than print journals
• The online environment will be stable
• The business models will be sustainable
• The agents will aggregate metadata about online journals, license terms, and pricing
• The agents will also offer portals and host sites for content
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• Larger publishers want their imprint viewed as a
database with both breadth and depth
• Users now expect volume 1, issue 1 content online
• Library Consortia want to drive new business
models
• The Open Access movement wants to drive new
business models
• Subscription Agents want to support collection
development trends - but what are the trends?
Digital Market Forces
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Digital Desiderata
• We all need data on which journal issues are available online, and which journal volumes are available to which institutions
• We are all looking for simpler business models
• We are all looking for perpetual access guarantees
• We are all banking on online journals seeing far more use than print journals
• We are all looking for sustainable ways of making the scholarly record available to users
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Questions for Agents: Part 1
• Are agents over-committed to the print subscription world? Are they hurt by migration to e-journals?
• Can the agents support Open Access, even if it means lower STM journal prices and commissions?
• Do agents support the draft standard ONIX for serials, and what do they want publishers to do?
• Do agents think that programs like LOCKSS which allow local e-journal archiving are worth supporting?
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Questions for Agents: Part 2
• Do agents think licenses between publishers, libraries, and themselves ought to be made public?
• Would agents favor a system where all subscriptions were billed at list price, with custom license prices serviced through a system of credit balances?
• Do agents offer the exact same services to publishers that do not provide any commission as to those publishers that do provide a commission?
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Thank you
• Bob Boissy
• Manager, Subscription Agent Relations
• 866-269-9527 x-616 or 781-681-0616