The publisher and the library II

Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library

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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