Dec. 10, 1999
Attended by: David Brumberg, Phil Davis, John Saylor (editor), Susanne Whitaker, Steve Rockey, Mary Ochs (recorder), Jean Poland, Leah Solla, Ross Atkinson
Phil Davis was introduced as the newest member of the committee as he moves into his new position as Life Sciences Bibliographer with special responsibility for E-journals at Mann Library.
ACS Journals (Leah/Jean)
This is a top priority for the Physical Science Library. Package plan=no cancellations and 15% across the board. Jean and Leah will try to negotiate so that we do not have to pay 15% extra for duplicate titles. Physical Sciences Lib has offered to pay for the electronic surcharge for all ACS titles, but the approximately $1,600 additional for duplicates will need to come from other libraries. Mann and Engineering will consider funding. Access for Geneva and the Medical Library is also included.
Jean's Counter proposal--Cornell should be allowed to cancel duplicates and not pay 15% on duplicates for electronic access. Jean will let the Science Team know when she hears more from the ACS rep.
Future Agenda Items
*Wiley -- current free access is inadequate, limited to one simultaneous user and Geneva, Med and Ithaca are considered separate subscibers, so we cannot get access to each other's journals
*Academic IDEAL --re-negotiating contract
*Kluwer
Steve Rockey: Current index to statistics has been ordered.
John Saylor: IEEE periodicals and conference proceedings online will be coming in January 2000.
Current Contents
Scott Bard cannot come down on price for CC. Trial access will be turned back on. We agreed to subscribe to CC for six months, Invoice and License for 6 months @ approx. $12,000 will be coming to . Cost breakdown is as follows:
$10,000 Medical
$4,000 Mann
$3,000 Vet
7 of 9 Print subscriptions cancelled--$4550
Total: 21,550
The remaining amount will come from central collection funds on a one-time only basis. DRC will evaluate Current Contents and decide whether the remaining $2400 will come from Fund 519 for next year. If DRC does not fund CC, then the other selectors will have to make up for the missing $2400.
We also need to check to see if the money Vet paid for Reference Update can be applied to CC.
Academic
2000 License Fee = 90% of print for the electronic + 25% of print for the print
Acquisitions has retrieved money from Vendors, who were originally paid 100% of the library's print subscriptions prices.
Academic paper plus electronic costs for Cornell actually increased 13% (including paying for non-library subscriptions, see below).
The team discussed the problems with the Academic contract for electronic journals. The contract will be renegotiated by NERL for the next academic year. Mary Ochs agreed to be the "sponsor" for Academic within the Science Team.
John has cancelled several Academic computer science journal paper copies to get electronic copy only.
At this time, the Academic contract includes charges for subscriptions belonging to individual departments. John is waiting for the list of subscribers to be sent from Academic. When it arrives, we will assign these subscriptions to "sponsor" libraries, who will absorb these costs. We hope to eliminate charges for these subscriptions from the library's contract in the coming year.
Use data-- the group suggested that we get as much use data as we can from all of the e-journal systems we subscribe to. We want to be sure that these ejournal systems are being used.
Phil Davis will investigate NERL Academic journals which Cornell does not own. These can be cataloged for the Gateway since we are entitled to access to all Academic titles for which any NERL library has a subscription.
The group discussed the problem of large package deals for ejournals. Often the content is heavily in one team area, like science, but also includes some journals in other team areas. The Academic package includes a number of social science journals, which social science selectors may or may not have chosen on their own. This problem may come up as the social science team looks at e-journal packages, and has come up with MUSE, which is predominantly humanities.
The Science Team has learned many lessons in dealing with e-journals over the past year. It would be good to share those somehow with the other teams.
JSTOR--General Science collection.
JSTOR's next big initiative is in science. WE are very glad to see this collection being made available. Cornell is a charter participant in JSTOR. Ross will discuss contributions to JSTOR for the new General Science collection with DRC. JSTOR will hold update at ALA MidWinter.
The completed General Science Collection will include:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1665-1886
Title changed and split into:
- Philosophical Transactions, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and (PSL, Gateway) Engineering Sciences, 1887- Moving Wall: 5 years from present
Philosophical Transactions, Series B: Biological Sciences, 1887- (MAnn, Gateway)) Moving Wall: 5 years from present
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1830-1904 Title changed and split into:
Proceedings, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, (ENGR, PSL, Gateway) 1905- Moving wall: 5 years from the present
Proceedings, Series B: Biological Sciences, 1905- (MAnn, Gateway)) Moving wall: 5 years from the present
Science, 1880- (Many) Moving wall: 5 years from the present
Scientific Monthly, 1915-1957 Absorbed by: Science
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science), 1915- (OLin, Mann, PSL, Vet , Geneva, Gateway)Moving wall: 2 years from the present
Elsevier
The group discussed the current Elsevier offer and identified the following issues of concern for this deal and all e-journal deals:
The group agreed that it would be impossible to pay for the entire Elsevier package with current budget funds. Since the Yale trial is still going on, it is important to see the results of the NERL negotiations. John Saylor is representing CUL on the NERL group. Original deal with NERL, was 100 selected titles, not the entire package.
Ross and John are meeting with Sarah to discuss the Elsevier counter-proposal on Tuesday afternoon December 14.
Minutes recorded by John M. Saylor.
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