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A Consortial View of Academic Library Purchasing
Kim ArmstrongAssistant Director, CIC Center for
Library Initiatives
CIC Member InstitutionsHeadquartered in the Midwest, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is a consortium of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago
University of Chicago University of Illinois Indiana University University of Iowa University of Michigan Michigan State University University of Minnesota Northwestern University Ohio State University Pennsylvania State University Purdue University University of Wisconsin-Madison
Funding Trends
• Majority of libraries had either flat budgets or experienced reductions
• Fewer exemptions for collections• For collection budgets of $15-$20 million, that
constitutes a loss of $350-$450,000• Stimulus money helped, over by FY12• Many publishers worked outside contracts to
hold pricing to no increase
Coping
• Reductions in print – journals and monographs
• One time spending reduced (e.g. backfiles) with dollars carried forward
• Cut databases and reviewed lists of journals – cost per use is quite prevalent
• Low use material questioned e.g. foreign language and monographs
Acquisition Strategy
• Patron driven selection still too expensive for CIC schools
• Digitization partnerships yielding content (CIC Google contract)
• Large scale investment in cooperative purchases
• Interest in new pricing models, more tied to quality and usage
E-Books
• CIC has made a big investment in e-books• Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, others• Purchase model• Multi-year agreements for everything
purchased• Cost at a fraction of print list price
Impact- Oxford Scholarship Online
• Electronic version– 2,765 titles currently purchased– 20,000 uses per year– 17 uses per title on average per year
• Print collection of same titles– 2,381 titles in collection– .43 average circulations per title per year – 10 titles more than 50– 3.81 circulations over lifetime in collection
• Average title used 34 times more frequently online than circulated to a patron
Source - The University of Chicago Library
Impact – Springer E-books
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Going Forward
• Consortia– Higher investment in central purchases– Rational plan to migrate from print
• Publishers– More content as inducement to keep existing level
of spend– Provide records, replace legacy print, develop
archiving relationships, other services
