Leaving Elsevier's "big deal": an evaluation of the Italian National Institute of Health experience inside the Bibliosan Consortium | E-LIS. E-prints in Library and Information Science

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-06-08

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Use the link to access the full text article deposited in E-prints in Library and Information Science (E-LIS).    “Established in 2003, E-LIS is an international Open Archive for Library and Information Science (LIS). Over 11,500 papers have been archived to date. It is freely accessible, aligned with the Open Access (OA) movement and is a voluntary enterprise. E-LIS has grown to include a team of volunteer editors from 44 countries and support for 22 languages.”  The abstract reads as follows: “In 2011 the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), the Italian National Institute of Health, has been forced, due to economic reason, to leave the Bibliosan Consortium contract with the publisher Elsevier. The contract, following the ‘big deal’ model, provided for the maintenance of paper subscriptions and the payment of an additional fee for the whole electronic collection (more than 2,000 journal titles). The continuous increase of annual costs has led to unsustainable growth in costs and to the subsequent cancellation of the contract. This meant that more than 500 researchers of the Institute have suddenly had access to just 180 Elsevier current titles instead of the previous 2,000. The study traces the various stages which led to taking this unavoidable decision to cut about half of the Elsevier’s journals and analyzes its impact.”

Link:

http://eprints.rclis.org/handle/10760/17042#.T9Iy2plYu2X

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oa.new oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.green oa.elsevier oa.libraries oa.sustainability oa.librarians oa.prices oa.budgets oa.italy oa.consortia oa.cancellations oa.repositories oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

06/08/2012, 13:15

Date published:

06/08/2012, 09:15