Post on 10-Dec-2014
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How does the library view the pubishers?
We, as librarians, do our utmost best to make sure that the resources we buy and licensed are used to the max. We are constantly marketing publishers products to our patrons and we can use all support to make this happen, but
●In cooperation
●On our terms
Marketing Brill
Is Brill well known by our scholars?
What will it look like on other reading devices?
Ranking of publishing houses
For tenure track
For membership of graduate schools
●WASS/Sense ranking
Brill ranks?
We do receive requests from scholars/publishers to be upgraded.
Transfer some activities to another imprint, focus on a AA quality brand. Make clear it is all peer reviewed content.
Future of bibliographies
Budget cuts will hit secondary sources more than primary sources
Smaller, specialised a&i databases will disappear
Discovery tools aren't the final answer yet
General a&i databases still have a future, but
●Bigger is better
●Fulltext will become a competitive edge
●Additional services
Citations are a prerequisite (crucial perhaps?)
Google Scholar, Scopus or WoS?
Social scientists at Wageningen UR
What about copyrights?
"Stichting Pro"
Universities have had significant fines
Scholars become more aware
More inquiries about educational materials
What about e-books
There is not yet a single succesfull e-book platform yet
Publishers have unsustainable models
●Big deals for e-books ?
●First to buy 25 books, subsequent per book?
●What about o-books?
●Pick and choose is important, preferably patron acquisition
●We need e-text books
Publishers&libraries need to do business re-engineering (again)
Metrics
Metrics are essential in collection decisions
We look at downloads and costs/download
●journals
●e-books
●paper books?
No absolute criteria
How much are paper books used?
Building up experience with book metrics and PDA
Thank you!
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