ER&L Forum

Elizabeth Winter February 2nd, 2010

Round Table on Adventures @ the Article Level

~40 people in attendance

Publisher pricing models:

• How to manage pay-per-view in a library-mediated situation
• Always going to be a diversity of models and exceptions to rules when dealing with multiple publishers
• Rockefeller UP: met with DeepDyve http://www.deepdyve.com/ to examine the article renting project. iTunes model of 99cents per article (no printing / 24 hours). One ramification might be to remove OA after 6-months and restrict all the way back due to loss of predictable subscription revenue, so it might result in more restriction in access.
• Duke UP: article-level is a fulfillment nightmare and eliminates the ability to do risk-assessment / sales prediction/projection (easier to compare journals to journals to identify peers and predict what revenue would be if they acquired a particular journal).

Recommender services:

• How do recommender services work? WOS looks at the citation trail forward and backward. bX looks @ the usage patterns of all the institutions that contribute to the service. Using the aggregate data, they determine what people naturally look at when they look at other things.
• MESUR.org / Johann Bollen: Aims to look at what people are using now, now what they’ve cited from years past…how can we tell what’s coming in the future?
• How do we track what kind of an impact research funding has? Example: NSF grant funding, once the grant is over, what kind of publication/impact does the grant result in directly, and indirectly?
• Duke UP…exploring the token model: would you expect perpetual access? This would be a fulfillment nightmare. This might depend on the library.
• CCC-like model / broker for managing different types of access for an article (use for semester / coursepack / archive it yourself / have perpetual access)
• CalState is using CCC as a broker for a patron-driven pay-per-view program

Value of the journal as container…

• Journal as a brand
• Journal as a recommender service (they are related in some way, so they’re packaged together)
• Quality control—producing a set of articles of a certain quality
• Couldn’t we find other ways to collect
• How will we find things in 20 years [or 100?] if we don’t have a citation (jtitle/volume/issue)?
• Publishers have motivation to keep track of how they organize articles.

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