Ten Years of Big Deals

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After the honeymoon The advantages of the Big Deal for both sides occurprimarily in the first contract– Subsequent contracts are primarily about price increases May use the language of bigger packages, change of businessmodel, or just inflation Further complication: The new money available tolibraries tends to plateau over time– Excitement of Big Deal declines as it becomes standard– North American academic libraries are receiving a smaller%age of the university budget
The Problem of Small Presses Hundreds of small publishers– Carol Tenopir estimates that there are around 30,000academic journals– Most academic journals are published by many small (oftenacademic society) publishers There are two strategies for dealing with this problem– The artificial package (consolidating the publications oflots of small publishers to allow a faux Big Deal) Unstable due to differing agendas (herding cats) Embargo Content churn– Contract standardization improves the speed and efficiencyof deals with smaller packages
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