Attendees:  Mary Ochs, Mary Patterson, John Saylor, Steve Rockey, David Brumberg, Linda Stewart, Susanne Whitaker, Marty Schlabach, Leah Solla, Pat Viele, Phil Davis, Mark Funk (via telephone).

Scribe: Pat Viele

1. Phil Davis led a discussion about the new pricing structure for Nature. There will be no more 3-month delay in putting up the electronic version. Units need to double-check about which Nature titles they currently own. There are still some problems with the license agreement. NERL will be negotiating on these points. Print and online versions are priced separately. The review titles are considered to be excellent sources. It is not an “all or nothing” deal. Phil will contact Peter McGovern about several questions, regarding:
   • how far back the subscription will go,
   • archives, and
   • use statistics.
   The consensus is that we will commit to a “deal”, but we will wait and see whether NERL can negotiate a better deal than Cornell alone.

2. Science Express:   The publisher of “Science” sees Science Express articles as an added value for individual subscribers. Individual subscribers can get these articles for free. Others can order them for $5. There was a brief discussion regarding policy about library units purchasing articles for individuals. Discussion was tabled until the next meeting.

3. “Signal transduction knowledge environment” [STKE]:   This is another Science product. It is a “portal”. There are articles from society publications. It has no archive and no interlibrary loan service. A subscription would be $1200. We decided not to buy it, as it duplicates our holdings. We do, however, subscribe to a SPARC product, COGNET, which is similar.

4. John Saylor discussed possible deal with Mary Ann Liebert publishing [http://www.liebertpub.com/]. She specializes in biomedical subjects. She identifies new markets and starts journals to cover that area, i.e. AIDS, gene therapy. The Medical Library has turned on a few of the electronic titles, as have Mann and Vet. We need to verify which titles we get (the spreadsheet from the publisher is incorrect) and compare costs title-by-title to the package price. It would cost $4000 for all titles and that would include the Medical College. Since several departments at CU are moving into biomedical or biophysics topics, we felt it would be good to have these titles.

   Mark Funk serves on the committee that decides which new journals get indexed in Index Medicus. There is usually about a year’s delay before a new journal is picked up in the index.

   Mark Funk offered $2,000. Mann librarians will calculate how much they have spent turning on individual titles and see if it can be applied to a full subscription. The group agreed that this is another “all or nothing” deal which presents some difficulties, but in this case the value appears to be excellent.

5. John Saylor led a discussion of third party journals on Science Direct [i.e. Critical Reviews… etc.] It is possible to turn on individual titles. There would be a 0-10% charge for each World Scientific title. We should look at the list of what is available and be prepared to discuss this next meeting.

6. John Saylor asked if anyone else would be interested in a field trip to KNOVEL’s factory. Linda Stewart and Leah Solla expressed interest. Leah mentioned that she has invited Chris, the CEO, to take part in a panel discussion that she is arranging for the next ACS meeting titled “Electronic Libraries”. Leah is interested in electronic access to the CRC Handbook and the Perry’s package. The deal is “lease” only. It is now possible to purchase title-by-title, rather than “all or nothing”. KNOVEL is looking for input from us. This might be an opportunity for a collaborative arrangement.

7. Mary Ochs led a discussion about scheduling Science Team meetings. Since re-scheduling was a problem, we agreed that Marty as well as Mark would be “virtual” participants for the June 8th meeting. If that goes well, we will stick with the Friday meetings.

8. General Selectors General Meeting will be held Wednesday, May 16th 2-3PM.

9. The budget hearing for the science team was set for Wed., May 30.

10. John Saylor led a discussion on additional “seats” for Web of Science. WOS is interested in benchmarking the optimal number of seats for those libraries who have been getting an unacceptable number of rejections. CU will get an extra 10 “seats” staring in the fall and going to the end of October. Science team felt that was not long enough to be a good trial and wondered why WOS doesn’t offer unlimited simultaneous users for the test period. John will ask Ross to bring up our questions during the NERL negotiations.

11. Phil Davis is seeking additional information about Wiley e-books. They would not give us a trial.

12. Mary Ochs asked if others would be interested in having Ulrich’s available campus wide. Yes, we would. This will be taken to the DRC. Books in Print is already available campus wide.

13. Concerns were expressed about what happens when publishers either add new titles to their online packages, or take away titles. Who maintains the lists? This will be added to the agenda for the next meeting.

14. The $1,091 cost of Scientific American Archive online will be split by Engineering, Mann, Geneva and PSL.

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