Transcript ACS - OhioLINK Research Databases

ACS Publications & ICOLC
Establishing Partnerships
Lisle, IL, October 2, 1999
Dean J. Smith
Publications Division
American Chemical Society
Washington, D.C.
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Structure of Presentation
 ACS
Products
 ACS
Performance
 ACS
Price
 ACS
People
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ACS Web Editions
Print
& Web Products
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ACS Publications 2000:
Print & Web
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CORE
Chemists on editorial,
production and
technical staff
Robust peer review
Investment in
infrastructure
High production
standards
Highly cited
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WEB
Articles ASAP
ASAP Alerts
Intra & inter-linking
Multiple formats
Cross jrl searching
Electronic ILL
ACS - CAS Linking
Usage reports
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ACS Web Editions Driven
Off of a Core Database
 Peer
Review Plus Project started in 1975
 Goal was a highly structured and
consistent database
 Materials held in flexible format
 Affords opportunities for electronic
authoring & editing tools, accelerated
peer review, online formatting features
& delivery, etc.
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ACS Digital Production Stream
 All
text edited in FrameMaker
– Includes mathematics and chemical
equations
 All
graphics scanned
– Line art and photographs
 Pages
composed on Xyvision
– PostScript output complete pages
 Final
files converted to SGML
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Cost of ACS Web Editions
 ACS
Electronic Program Carries a Total
Investment of $5 Million with a Base
Requirement of $1 Million in Annual
Upkeep
 85%of
our costs occur before we print a
single copy or load an article
Is It Worth the Cost?
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The Results: A More
Flexible Product
 Articles
ASAPsm
 ASAP Alertssm
 CAS reference linking
 Articles on Commandsm
 Electronic manuscript submission
 PDF & HTML Formats
 Organic Letters
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Organic Letters
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First SPARC journal project
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First issue launched at National Org Symp
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1:1 mailed in July (203 pages, 43 papers)
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Submissions well ahead of plan
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Online submission used by 70% of authors
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Receipt to publication time - 8 weeks
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Acceptance to publication time - 3 weeks
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NEW ACS PUBLICATIONS
1999
2000
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It’s Worth the Investment
 Revenue
generating arm of a non-profit
Society whose mission is to widely
disseminate top quality chemistry
research
 ACS quality is biggest asset -- committed
to translating that to electronic
 Deliver
ACS Quality at ACS Prices
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ACS Web Editions
Web
Edition Performance
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1998 Performance Highlights
Articles ASAP program launched,
January. (20,000 articles delivered, 80-100
per day)
 Launched Articles on Command, April.
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Web delivery grew 12.8% per month in
1998. Delivering nearly 10 million “pages”
per month.
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Web servers available 98.41% of the time
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1999 Highlights
 LibraryLink
 50
live, January
free electronic reprints for authors
 ASAP Alerts
 Homepage
launched, March
Redesign, March
 New
Journals (Journal of Combinatorial
Chemistry and Organic Letters), Jan/June
 Account
Management team in place, April
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1999 Highlights
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Pubs/CA Linking
Delivery of softcopy manuscripts to
reviewers and page proofs to authors(OL)
 Announce updated archive policy
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Cross-journal searching
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Improve web statistical reporting
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Launch Biomacromolecules
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ACS Web Editions
Pricing
Evolution
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First Attempt: Option A Pricing
1
Class C Subnet=Print Cost + 5%
 Additional Class C subnets=10% of Print
 Print & 1 Class C subnet=Print
Cost+20%
 Site License=Print Cost + 65%
 Site License + Print= Print + 90%
Wide distribution costs less than 1 duplicate
print subscription
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We listened to Customers
and Added Price Option B
 Librarians
would like to keep print
 Librarians felt that 190% over print was
too high a price
 Librarians want an organization wide
license, no site restrictions
 Librarians want InterLibrary Loan
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Price Option B: Web With
All Print Subscriptions (1/98)
 Web
with print subscriptions
 Customer promises to keep all print for
1998
 Site license costs 25% more than base
print price
 Organization wide license, no site
restrictions
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ACS Offers Consortia Licensing
Plan (2/98)
 Option
B is designed for Consortia
 All
institutions participating in a
consortium can have Web access to the
maximum number of titles subscribed to
by the consortium members
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ACS Web Editions Pricing 2000
 Worked
with economists
 Consulted
 Looked
 Still
ACS Library Advisory Group
at usage models
in transition from print to Web
 Elected
to increase usage
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ACS Web Edition
Option B Pricing 2000
 Print
prices increase by 8.65%
 Reduced
Web premium from 25% to
15%
 Web
price based on 1999 holdings
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ACS Consortia Pricing 2000
 Pay
for current print subscriptions plus
15%
 Agree not to cancel current print
subscriptions for 1999
 Current print subscriptions defined as of
Jan. 1999
 All member institutions pay just for their
current holdings, but get access to all
Web Editions licensed by Consortium
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Wide Variety Of Customers
Count As “Authorized Users”
 Faculty
and other employees
– Full-time, part-time, visiting, contractors
 Students
– Full-time, part-time
 Walk-in
patrons
 Distance Learning
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Permitted Use Defined to
Support Research
 Authorized
Users may search and
retrieve articles for personal use
– Research, scholarly, or educational use
– View, download, or print articles
 Authorized
Users may make printed
copies for other authorized users
 Dial-in access allowed by Authorized
Users Connected through institution’s
network
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Limited ILL Allowed
 For
use by non-commercial libraries to
support research
– Public, school, college libraries
 Use
Web to find and retrieve PDF article
– Print and mail or fax to requester
– Forward PDF file electronically
 May
not be used to fill requests by
commercial customers
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A Few Usage Restrictions Apply
 May
not modify, alter, or create
derivative works from ACS material
 May not remove or obscure ACS
Copyright notices on articles
 May not sell to others or use for feebased Document Delivery
 May not be stored in aggregate
quantities for later retrieval
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Archive Question Remains
to be solved
 Every
annual subscription includes
access to Web archive: Jan. ‘96 to date
 ACS committed to maintaining an
electronic archive
 Open to suggestions on mutually
acceptable ways to provide access to that
archive should subscription end
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ACS is Still Listening
to Customers
 Customers
want an archive
 Customers want Metadata
 Customers want all-electronic pricing
 Customers want ownership vs. license
 Customers want simplified licenses or
one standard document
 Customers want C&EN Online
We hear your concerns
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What ACS Can Offer Consortia
 Adopt
standard license for each
consortium
 Develop with consortium mutually
agreeable contract administration
– Signed license from each member
institution
– Single master license covering all members
 Multiple
year agreements possible
 Consortia works out payment structure
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What Consortia Offer ACS
 The
greatest possible distribution and usage
of ACS Web Editions on a global scale
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Feedback from Consortia
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“Making the ACS journals available to students and
faculty is the single most important thing I have seen
any library do.”
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“Look at the total cost of the information package
rather than to look separately at the paper and
electronic components…our cost per use on ACS
journals is among our lowest…our faculty rate their
quality above that of the more expensive publishers.”
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“An excellent conversion of the ACS journals into an
electronic, web-accessed version.”
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ACS Web Editions
People
Behind the Journals
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The ACS Web Editions Team
 Bob
Bovenschulte, Director, Publications Division
 Lorrin
 Mary
 Jack
Garson, Director, Electronic Publishing
Scanlan, Director, Production
Ochs, Director, New Product Development
 Justin
Spence, Director, Sales & Marketing
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ACS Consortia Contacts
 Contact
us to review special concerns
 Dean Smith, Sales Manager, Global
– [email protected]; 202-872-8063
 Amanda
Werth, Account Manager, NE, SE
– [email protected]; 202-872-6362
 Alan
Diehlmann, Account Manager, MW, W
– [email protected]; 202-872-8067
 Dawn Hayes, Inside Sales Specialist; Price Quotes [email protected]; 202-872-4437
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