Licensing: Blessing or Disguise

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Licensing Blessing or Disguise?

• Nol Verhagen
• Director of Libraries, University of Amsterdam

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Presentation

• Who are we
• The Dutch Consortium UKB
• Main features of UKB-licenses
• The true nature of licensing
• How licensing affects the library organisation
• Models for Consortia
• Boobytraps and Pitfalls
• Developments to be expected

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Who are we?

• - 22000 students
• - 7 faculties
• - Many adresses, tendency for concentration
• - 7 Faculty Libraries
• - Central Library (UL)
• - Close co-operation UL/FLs
• - New Library Cruz y Ortiz (from Sevilla)

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The Dutch Consortium UKB

• Participating Institutions
• Nature of the Consortium a cooperative
  initiative
• The Licensing Principals
• E-ICOLC
• Master Agreements
• Licensing Office

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Main features of UKB licenses

• Master Agreements individual choice
• Full Portfolio or Cross access
• Multi year agreements
• Backvolumes
• Perpetual Access

• Usage statistics
• Walk in use
• E-only option
• Pricing based on historic record of print
  subscriptions
• Pricecaps

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The true nature of licensing

• Ownership vs Licensing
• Licensing Buying usage rights
• From Book Collector to Information Broker
• Availability of information
• Digital Library content and added value
• Pricing per interest vs pricing per product

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How licensing affects thelibrary organisation

• Library moving away from physical appearance
• Levels of decision making
• No more collection management!
• Conflicts of interest between highand low
• Need of technological and functional
  sophistication

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Models for Consortia/ Critical success factors

• Ad hoc
• Loose
• Strong

• Knowing each other
• One of a kind
• Similar funding

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Boobytraps and Pitfalls

• Conflicts of interest within the organisation
• Conflicts of interest within the Consortium
• How perpetual is perpetual?
• Takeovers
• How to cope with everlasting price increases?
• The threat of external funding
• Digital Rights Management

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Developments to be expected

• Usage stats as basis for pricing
• Integration of Heterogeneous Databases
• Portals
• Personalisation
• Electronic Learning Environments
• E-Publishing