What's the Big Deal?

Serials Librarian

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 49-59

  Frazier, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 22544460536     PISSN: 0361526X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J123v48n01_06     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Frazier, Ken, "The Librarian's Dilemma: Contemplating the Cost of the Big Deal," D-Lib Magazine 7, no. 3 (March 2001) http://www.dlib.org/ dlib/march01/frazier/03frazier.html
2. For example, a typical pricing model for a Big Deal license will increase the cost of the comprehensive license at an annual rate of five percent for the term of the license while the cost of individual subscriptions might increase at an average rate of nine percent or more.
3. For an interesting discussion of the strategic cost of "muddling through," see Brewer, Joseph M., Sheril J. Hook, Janice Simmons-Welburn and Karen Williams, "Libraries Dealing with the Future Now." ARL Bimonthly Report 234 (June 2004): 1-8.
4. http://www.wendt.wise.edu/projects/jvp
5. Here's how I add up all the Big Deals: Elsevier ScienceDirect, 1,700; Kluwer, 750 STM journals; Wiley, 477; Sage, 130 journals in several packages combined; Springer, 528; IEEE, 219; Blackwell, 660: Emerald, approximately 200; Taylor & Francis, 1,039; and ACS, 40; for a total of 5,713.
6. Margaret Landerman of the University of Utah Marriott Library coined this clever expression by colliding Elsevier, Wiley and Springer-Verlag in a speech that she gave at the Charleston Conference.
7. A non-scholarly, but nonetheless enlightening, discussion of innovation in the marketplace is found in Christensen, Clayton M., The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fall (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997).