Ten Years of Big Deals

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The Big Deal has become the dominantmode of digital journal purchase Ingenta Institute report (2002) suggested thatworld-wide wide 50-60% of all ejournal sales werebundled consortia deals Probably low estimate given InternationalCoalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC)discussions– Thessaloniki (2002)– Copenhagen (2003)
Need for the Big Deal - 1 It was very complicated, expensive and timeconsuming to negotiate the purchase of electronicjournals– A US consortium (Solinet) did a study/survey whichshowed an average time of 1.5 years per deal– There were lots of new issues which had to benegotiated…not not just priceWalk-in useInterlibrary LoanDefinition of PatronsIndemnityCourse PacsPricing basisEtc…
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Page 9 and 10: Win-winKey Big Deal Principles- Not
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Page 15 and 16: The New Titles Were HeavilyUsed! Ov
Page 17 and 18: It’s s Hard to Resist a Bargain L
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Page 23 and 24: But, we must notforget the lessons
Page 25 and 26: The Poor are oppressed You can’t
Page 27 and 28: The Problem of Small Presses Hundre
Page 29 and 30: The problem of all or nothing The d
Page 31 and 32: Border Warfare details A reasonable
Page 33 and 34: Cost per use*2002 2003 Emerald $19.
Page 35 and 36: The way forward The Big Deal has be
Page 37: Further reading Gatten, J. and Sanv

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