From celeste.feather at lyrasis.org Thu Oct 17 12:34:13 2013 From: celeste.feather at lyrasis.org (Celeste Feather) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:34:13 -0400 Subject: [Lyrarl] University Press Ebook Offers for 2014 Message-ID: <2292A4BA7D7F2849B5C69093E659924B293480E4CF@lyraatlexec> All, This is a brief note to let you know that I am in active conversations with Project MUSE, Oxford University Press, and De Gruyter/HUP for ARL Licensing Initiative offers for 2014 ebook collections and hope to have detailed information to you soon when all of the details are finalized. I anticipate that the Project MUSE 2014 ARL offer will be released in the next few days, and we will again have special time-limited offers through March 1. I also am in continuing conversation with JSTOR, but do not yet know if we will have an ebook offer from them for 2014. LYRASIS and ARL had a discussion earlier this year about the administrative fee structure for the Licensing Initiative offers, and we have arrived at an altered structure that is easier to explain and understand. We now have two years of experience to guide our thinking. There are no major changes, but I think the new fee structure is a more balanced approach. The key change is that new participants in an ARL/LYRASIS group license that totals over $500,000 annually will pay a slightly higher fee for their first year of participation than libraries that have participated in the group license in prior years. If the total amount of orders in a given year exceed a defined threshold, then the fee for all participants will still be reduced on a sliding scale. With respect to the forthcoming MUSE offer, new libraries in the group will start with a 5% admin fee, and returning libraries will start with a 4% admin fee. In the past two years we have narrowly missed the $1.5 million threshold needed to start reducing the MUSE admin fee for all, but perhaps in 2014 we will meet that benchmark. Details of the revised fee structure are below, and I'll be glad to answer any questions on this topic. 5% Admin Fee * Applied to all participants during the first year of a negotiated offer in order to provide appropriate compensation for the work involved to negotiate, promote, discuss, and administer orders including initial setup work for each library. If total annual orders exceed $1.5 million, then the first year fee will be decreased for all. * Also applied to a library for the first year it joins an established group offer if not during the first year the offer is available. * Applied to all participants each year for offers that do not accumulate a minimum of $500,000 in orders 4% Admin Fee * Applied to all participants during their second and successive years of participation in a negotiated offer above the annual total value of $500,000. If total annual orders reach $2 million, then the fee will be decreased for all. Celeste Celeste Feather Senior Licensing Program Account Manager LYRASIS celeste.feather at lyrasis.org 800-999-8558 ext. 2954 (Toll-free) 678-235-2954 (Direct) celeste.feather (Skype) [cid:image001.png at 01CECB2C.9F222E20] [cid:image002.jpg at 01CECB2C.9F222E20][cid:image003.jpg at 01CECB2C.9F222E20] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This year we have a March 1, 2014 deadline for many of the special offers, and an extended opportunity through October 1, 2014 for libraries to purchase the entire collection of MUSE ebooks at around $9.00 per title or "top-off" their former purchase of MUSE ebooks if they acquired all of the MUSE ebook content through 2013. MUSE will continue to work with us on a custom quote basis for libraries that have made selective purchases in the past and now want to upgrade to the entire ebook collection at MUSE as of 2014. Please let me know if you are interested in a custom quote. The summary memo attached provides many details. Pricing is in the attached spreadsheet and also available at http://bit.ly/16ysxhb. As always, I will be glad to respond to your questions and comments. 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