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Agenda
3rd
Meeting of Southern European Libraries' Consortia June 8, 2003 Cappadocia,
Turkey
| 9:30
- 11:00 |
Welcome
and informal country reports:
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| 11:00
- 11:30 |
Coffee
Break |
| 11:30
- 12:30 |
MathSciNet
Consortium for SELL Countries |
| 12:30
- 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00
- 15:00 |
Paul
Harwood, Swets Blackwell, “ALPSP-Learned
Journals Collection” |
| 15:00
- 15:30 |
Coffee
Break |
| 15:30
- 17:00 |
Decisions,
Next SELL meeting |
| 20:00 |
Dinner
(by courtesy of Swets Blackwell) |
The
following outlines the discussions held during the 3rd SELL meeting.
Minutes
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Country reports were presented by participants at the beginning of the
meeting.
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MathSciNet Consortium for SELL Countries: There was a general
feeling that consortial pricing should be according to mathematical
activity. There is no competitor for MSN. Countries could cooperate
in negotiating with MSN. Each participant is going to talk with his/her
own university and consortiumabout joining a SELL MSN consortium. There
is an MSN consortium in Italy, and Paola suggested that we negotiate
for the same conditions for all SELL members but not try to make a single
contract. We should think about trying to get some support from the
EU for a SELL MSN consortium.
- ALPSP:
The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection was presented by Sitki Aktas of
Swets Blackwell. The ALPSP, The Association of Learned and Professional
Society Publishers (www.alpsp.org), that represents not-for-profit publishers,
has several hundred members. These are small publishers with few titles,
who are not included in the “Big Deals”, and especially
those publishing in languages other than English. The Association runs
seminars and training programmes for members. It tries to minimise the
squeeze factor by creating a cross-publisher collection among ALPSP
members and making content available through a single channel. Swets
Blackwell signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ALPSP in April.
The role of Swets Blackwell is to develop the collection by signing
up publishers, representing participating publishers in negotiating
sales to consortia and libraries. Also, Swets Blackwell will collect
fees and process orders from clients. It’s like a one-stop shop
for both ALPSP and libraries. Swets Blackwell’s agreement with
ALPSP is for three years. Swets Blackwell’s intention is to have
a final list of publishers participating and their titles by 31 July
2003. Depending on levels of participation, two subject packages, Medical
and Life Sciences and Science and Technology, are contemplated. Their
aim is to present the packages and pricing at this year’s ICOLC
and E-ICOLC meetings. There was a general feeling that the ALPSP deal
will be very useful for libraries since it is difficult for libraries
to handle large numbers of individual subscriptions.
- Decisions
and Next SELL Meeting: There was general interest in the question
of how to put all databases and institutions on the SELL web site. It
was thought that we should prepare a matrix that shows them. We should
also prepare a report about activities of the members and differences
between them. A decision needs to be made on the structure for such
a report, and it was suggested that Tommaso Giordano from Italy be requested
to write an article about SELL activities. The next SELL meeting will
be held in Italy. More information will be forthcoming so members are
requested to check the SELL website.
Participants
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