Consortial journal licensing: experiences of Greek academic libraries

Xenidou-Dervou, Claudine

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“…The main results of the network's operation can be summarised as follows.HILL‐net has created the necessary infrastructure for the intensive exploitation of the existing scattered national journal collection.It has created a culture of co‐operation among libraries of different administrative and institutional categories and types (Academic, Hospital, Research, Special, etc. )It has allowed member libraries (current and future ones) to continue with the reconstruction of the national journal collection.Furthermore, the successful operation of the HILL‐net has provided the psychological foundation needed for projects that followed, such as the creation of the Hellenic Academic Libraries Consortium known as HEAL‐Link http://155.207.114.39/ (Xenidou‐Dervou, 2001) and the planned union catalogue of the academic libraries, which is currently an ongoing project (Tsimpoglou and Vouyouklis, n.d.). After the fundamental mechanism and infrastructure was established, the general attitude changed to recognise that the systematic co‐operation among Hellenic libraries is the only way to overcome budgetary constraints.Finally, consortium agreements for sharing resources of electronic journals have already been signed with HEAL‐link.…”

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The interlibrary loan network in Greece: a model that survives in the digital era

Tsimpoglou

2004

Interlending &Amp; Document Supply

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The structure, operation and development phases of the Hellenic Interlibrary Loan Network (HILL-net) are described and the pros and cons of the model, as well as the conclusions after nine years of operation are reported. The HILL-net has been the first systematic collaborative activity among Hellenic libraries. After the shift of most member libraries to the digital era, the HILL-net is coexisting, in a symbiotic and complementary way, with access to electronic journals. The network started its pilot operation in 1994, initially with six member-libraries. It currently consists of 127 member-libraries, located in Greece (including one in Cyprus). The network is based on a radial model with all peripheral libraries connected through the internet to a central Union Catalogue of Periodicals, installed on the server of the National Documentation Centre (NDC) in Athens. The system provides online search capabilities to the database of the Union Catalogue and offers facilities of online document ordering of articles included in the journal collections of the member libraries. Delivery of documents is carried out by the "supplier" libraries to "customer" libraries via ordinary mail or fax, and occasionally via e-mail. The clearance of transaction costs is carried out centrally by the NDC for all libraries, thus simplifying financial logistics. A migration of the system from a main-frame host computer system to a web based platform on Oracle environment took place in 1999.

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The interlibrary loan network in Greece: a model that survives in the digital era

Tsimpoglou

2004

Interlending &Amp; Document Supply

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“…Tenopir and King (2000)'s analysis revealed savings of between twelve and thirteen dollars in processing electronic articles on demand compared with the cost of a paper-based interlibrary loan or document delivery transaction. Xenidou-Dervou (2001) found that the dramatic price increase in journal subscriptions over the past 30 years has undermined the ability of academic libraries to sustain their collection development at the level necessary to support educational and research activities in the institutes they served. He supported the foundation of a consortium in order to go some way towards alleviating the problem.…”

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Lacunae existing in licensing and pricing models of electronic resource

Nazir¹

2015

Int. J. Lib. Inf. Sci.

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The paper aims to explore and identify the recent contributions to the literature available in the current developments and issues in licensing and pricing models in e-resources. An extensive literature survey was performed in an attempt to identify substantial works published to date concerning pricing and licensing issues coupled with the publishers and librarians. The literature review connotes that hardly any systematic study or scholarly output which can facilitate the precise and accurate facts about pricing and licensing issues coupled with the publishers and librarians is available, although the size of the scholarly publishing industry and its effect on the cost and licensing of e-resource is quite large. It is evident from the scrutiny of literature existing that there are still areas for advanced exploration on the topic of pricing and licensing concerns of the scholarly publishing industry; and study paves the way for the concerned organizations and institutions (such as Libraries and Publishers), at global level, to take substantial measures to overcome monopoly effects from the publishers and come up with the standard models. The study is very helpful for librarians or authorities in selecting the best available ejournal package for their libraries .The paper is the first ordered and thorough attempt to review the literature and provide that there is not any standard pricing model available for e-resource subscription in the market to control the monopoly of publishers and aggregators.

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“…This was exacerbated by an increase in library costs caused by increased use of their collections, since there is a cost associated with each use. Recent studies by Tenopir and King 70 show that annual use of university collections by scientists has increased by over 100 uses per scientist from 1977 to 2005. This is due to the decline in personal subscriptions and other factors, such as the increased number of articles identified by online search and the availability of enlarged electronic collections.…”

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“…However, Tenopir and King have found that older articles read (say, over one year) are much more valuable to readers (see Tenopir and King 7 for a distribution of age of articles read, their source, and indicators of value). Recent surveys 70 suggest that that distribution of the age of articles read may even be increasing. On the other hand, Evans 96 recently studied a database of 34 million articles and their citations from 1945 to 2005.…”

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Pricing and other means of charging for scholarly journals: a literature review and commentary

King

Alvarado-Albertorio

2008

Learned Publishing

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There has been a clear upward trend over the past 50 years in traditional listed print subscription prices. The more recent trend towards electronic publishing has made possible new ways of charging for journals, such as differential pricing structures and bundling of journals which are purchased through license fees/charges (both of which enable libraries to buy significantly more journals, but at the same time make it more difficult to analyze prices). We are now also seeing a new emphasis on the ‘author‐side payment’ model. This article analyzes pricing and charging policies and trends, illustrating how these are affected by the complexities of the evolving journal system.

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Consortial journal licensing: experiences of Greek academic libraries

Cited by 10 publications

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The interlibrary loan network in Greece: a model that survives in the digital era

The interlibrary loan network in Greece: a model that survives in the digital era

Lacunae existing in licensing and pricing models of electronic resource

Pricing and other means of charging for scholarly journals: a literature review and commentary

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