15 May 2000
Attending: Leah Solla, Susanne Whitaker, Mark Funk (via phone), Mary Ochs (recorder), Phil Davis, John Saylor(editor), Steve Rockey, David Brumberg, Pat Viele, Nounla-or Chulapasars (visitor from Thailand)
Next Scheduled Meeting : Friday June 9
Announcements:
SciFinder Scholar (Leah)--5 seats currently running, applied for funding from Fund 519
Science Online (Phil)--sent form to DRC, Med does not have Science Online.
$250 for extra sites, $5,000 for subscription (if Geneva and Med are counted as extra sites)
We could consider dropping binding of paper--JSTOR has backfile, or
we could consider binding just one copy for Ithaca. Team members expressed some doubts about whether they would get rid of print in their own libraries.
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Price approximately $8,000 (7,959) for FTE under 20,000 students.
Phil has looked at online version--seems to be missing images, content is not as good as print. The group discussed the sustained value of print, compared with online which must be paid every year. The system has some hypertext links. Phil will draft a memo to go to McGraw-Hill with our concerns about the product. General consensus was that it was not worth the price at this time.
Elsevier
The trial has been extended, probably another week. Content fee down to 5.5% if NERL can get 11 subscribers. In conjunction with our discussion of Elsevier, we discussed cancellation of e-journal titles in general. Which journals can we cancel? John will write up a summary of licensing conditions related to cancellation for the large packages we have subscribed to. Leah noted that we should try to get statistics on use from the e-journal publishers.
What other big publishers do we still need to look at?
Springer--Rep. will be coming to talk to Mark.
Kluwer--Trial is now working - see http://www.englib.cornell.edu/electronic-resources/journals/publishers.html. Cornell has 329 subscriptions. E-access would cost 10% extra or about $20,000. Geneva will be purchasing access to some additional titles.
Discussion of Criteria for selecting e-Journals
Society journals--many physical science/engineering journals came up before commercial publishers. These are critical in most fields. In biological sciences and agriculture, some are only now appearing. Steve Rockey suggested that value of journals can be measured using a price per impact factor formula.
Blackwell Science-- Alternatives to OCLC ECO need to be investigated. OCLC ECO is not mounting journals in a timely fashion.
Academic
Invoice for Y2K sent to Scott Wicks was in error. Costs are larger than expected. Need an additional $16,000. Costs are actually ~10% above print.
Canadian National Site License Program-- See Message at end of these minutes describing the Program. Canada is trying to negotiate a site license to electronic resources that will cover all of Canada. Russia and China have signed national licenses for the Elsevier Science Direct system.
Karger Journals -- Phil is investigating. Mostly biology titles. Interesting pricing--$45 per title flat rate. This makes some titles a good investment at about a 2% surcharge and others a very poor value.
Scandinavian University--merged with Taylor & Francis. Titles will be available via Catchword. Endowed libraries will check for their list of available titles. Mann currently has a number of Catchword titles available.
ISI Web of Science--Phil noted that Internet URL references are not complete in ISI. The URLs do not appear, so they just look like bad references.
ISI Links--What is status? ERC is evaluating. John will follow-up. ISI Links will be discussed at IRPC meeting on Monday May 22
ISI Current Contents Alerts--Mary will call Scott Bard at ISI to try to address problem of inadequate number of alerts.
E-journal update page (at http://www.englib.cornell.edu/electronic-resources/journals/publishers.html)--The Science Team will continue to maintain this page. It is widely used by Reference staff. We will add social sciences and humanities journals to this same page.
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:42:52 -0700
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Canadian National Site Licensing Project issues call to vendor community for electronic journals and research databases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (OTTAWA) Friday, May 12, 2000 The Canadian National Site Licensing Project (CNSLP) is pleased to issue its first call to the publishing and database vendor community to participate in this innovative project. The project is seeking responses, through a Pre-Qualifying Bid process, from vendors of electronic journals and/or research databases that support scholarly research in the areas of science, health, engineering and the environment. The goal of the CNSLP is dramatically to increase the quantity, breadth and depth of research literature available to Canadian academic researchers, and to maximize the use and utility of that content through networked means. The project is a collaboration of 64 Canadian universities, and will result in pan-Canadian licenses for electronic journals and research databases for the country’s academic research community. “The CNSLP is one way in which universities will help design better ways for scientific information to irrigate their research communities,” noted Jean-Claude Guédon, distinguished scholar and a member of the project’s Advisory Board and Steering Committee. “In the short term, the project will achieve results that benefit scientists and the university community. In the longer term, the CNSLP will also set the stage for collaboration among researchers, administrators, libraries, publishers and granting agencies on critical changes to the scholarly publishing process.” Details on the CNSLP and mandatory information for vendors interested in submitting a pre-qualifying bid are available on the CNSLP web site: www.uottawa.ca/library/cnslp/ Vendor responses submitted through the Pre-Qualifying Bid will be reviewed by the project’s Negotiations Resource Team. Vendors who have passed the pre-qualification process may be asked to submit a further proposal through a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) process. “The CNSLP is committed to an aggressive schedule of working with vendors to conclude agreements for the 2000/2001 academic year,” said Deb deBruijn, the project’s Executive Director. “We intend to secure a broad and diverse portfolio of content from multiple vendors, so that there is a rich and supportive milieu for researchers throughout Canada to push the boundaries of their work.” The CNSLP is funded through an award from the Canada Foundation for Innovation www.innovation.ca and contributions from participating universities and other revenue partners. The University of Ottawa, Canada’s largest bilingual university, acts as project administrator. The value of the project is Cdn$50 million over three years. - 30 -
Deb deBruijn
Executive Director
Canadian National Site Licensing Project
Tel: (604) 291-5773 or (613) 562-5883
Fax: (604) 291-3023 or (613) 562-5195
Email: debruijn@uottawa.ca
Deb deBruijn
Executive Director/Directrice générale
Canadian National Site Licensing Project
Projet canadien de licences de site nationales
Tel: (604) 291-5773 or/ou (613) 562-5883 (messages)
Fax: (604) 291-3023 or/ou (613) 562-5195
Email: debruijn@uottawa.ca
Minutes recorded by John M. Saylor.