From louis.houle at mcgill.ca Mon Feb 9 09:21:40 2015 From: louis.houle at mcgill.ca (Louis Houle) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 14:21:40 +0000 Subject: [Lyrarl] 2015 UPSO Collections Offer from OUP In-Reply-To: <3efd89b9af074495ac30dfce25978099@CY1PR0801MB1002.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> References: <3efd89b9af074495ac30dfce25978099@CY1PR0801MB1002.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: <00DB2A2D7A977147B0783BE726A8C71947D28947@exmbx2010-8.campus.MCGILL.CA> Good morning Celeste, I do not recall that I have replied back to this OUP UPSO 2015 offer. McGill will take the complete 2015 package. Chloe, would it be possible to turn on the access for the complete Oxford UPSO e-book collections for us a s soon as possible? Thank you, Louis Louis Houle Director Collections McGill University Library Tel. : (514) 398-4763 Cell. : (514) 298-9217 louis.houle at mcgill.ca From: lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Celeste Feather Sent: November-12-14 16:58 To: LYRASIS ARL Collection Development Contacts Subject: [Lyrarl] 2015 UPSO Collections Offer from OUP Greetings, All! The 2015 offer for Oxford's University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO) under the terms of the ARL Licensing Initiative is now ready for your review. This year OUP is offering the 2013-2015 UPSO collections with a lower participation threshold, making it more likely that our group will reach a deeper discount. For 2015, all libraries are guaranteed a 25% discount off list price, and the discount increases if we gather a group of at least 16 libraries. The deadline for this group offer is February 27, 2015. Collections may be purchased in subject or publisher groupings. Of special note is that Oxford University Press is now adding its own titles to the UPSO site more regularly - 10 times a year, rather than 3 times annually. This new publishing cycle will allow the majority of OUP titles to be available within eight weeks of the print publication date, or sooner. Please find attached a memo with a full explanation of the offer, including: * Collection descriptions * Discounts available * Discussion of overlap with Project MUSE publishers * Link to ARL/LYRASIS group license * Link to 2013 and 2014 collection title lists (2015 forthcoming) * Link to 2015 pricing * Link to survey form to express your interest in purchasing an UPSO collection Thanks, and as always, I will be glad to address any questions. 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 01CE1341.AA604180] [cid:image002.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180][cid:image003.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 10337 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 854 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Here's a quick reminder of the upcoming deadlines for two university press ebook offers: * Oxford University Press Scholarship Online offer is based on participating libraries that place orders by February 27, 2015 * Project MUSE/UPCC special offers end on March 31, 2015 I'd also like to call your attention to a promising new Mellon-funded open access initiative called Open Library of Humanities (OLH) that may impact university press ebook titles. Initially, this initiative is focused on providing a platform for scholarly articles in the humanities disciplines through a mega-journal that in some aspects parallels the Public Library of Science (PLOS) for the sciences. PLOS and OLH are not at all related in terms of organization, staffing, or funding though. A detailed overview is available in the OLH Prospectus. As a next step, OLH will assist subscription journals in a transformation of their business model into one of open access, and host this branded content on the same platform as the mega-journal. OLH is supported by funds from contributing libraries, called Library Partnership Subsidies. Since humanities scholars typically do not have access to grant funds to pay APCs, an alternative gold open access model is needed for these disciplines. The requested annual subsidy amounts are based on FTE and are quite modest: 0-4,999 FTE $500 5,000-9,999 FTE $750 10,000+ FTE $1,000 Each supporting library will have a voice in determining OLH future directions, one of which could be the hosting of open access ebook content on the OLH platform. Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge University Presses have expressed interest in working with OLH to host ebook content if this future direction is chosen. A webinar featuring Dr. Martin Eve, Co-founder of Open Library of Humanities, is scheduled for Wednesday, February 11, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST. Please register here to attend. (With deep apologies to my Canadian friends - please select your favorite US state to register!) I will post a link to a recording of the webinar for those unable to attend. Dr. Eve is the author of a new open access book, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future. LYRASIS is working with OLH to support the initiative in North America. Libraries may indicate their support of OLH at the North American pledge site. Celeste Celeste Feather Senior Director for Licensing and Strategic Partnerships LYRASIS celeste.feather at lyrasis.org 800-999-8558 ext. 2954 (Toll-free) 678-235-2954 (Direct) celeste.feather (Skype) [cid:image001.png at 01CE1341.AA604180] [cid:image002.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180][cid:image003.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180] Check lyrasisnow.org for news and feature articles. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 10337 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 854 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I'd also like to call your attention to a promising new Mellon-funded open access initiative called Open Library of Humanities (OLH) that may impact university press ebook titles. Initially, this initiative is focused on providing a platform for scholarly articles in the humanities disciplines through a mega-journal that in some aspects parallels the Public Library of Science (PLOS) for the sciences. PLOS and OLH are not at all related in terms of organization, staffing, or funding though. A detailed overview is available in the OLH Prospectus. As a next step, OLH will assist subscription journals in a transformation of their business model into one of open access, and host this branded content on the same platform as the mega-journal. OLH is supported by funds from contributing libraries, called Library Partnership Subsidies. Since humanities scholars typically do not have access to grant funds to pay APCs, an alternative gold open access model is needed for these disciplines. The requested annual subsidy amounts are based on FTE and are quite modest: 0-4,999 FTE $500 5,000-9,999 FTE $750 10,000+ FTE $1,000 Each supporting library will have a voice in determining OLH future directions, one of which could be the hosting of open access ebook content on the OLH platform. Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge University Presses have expressed interest in working with OLH to host ebook content if this future direction is chosen. A webinar featuring Dr. Martin Eve, Co-founder of Open Library of Humanities, is scheduled for Wednesday, February 11, from 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST. Please register here to attend. (With deep apologies to my Canadian friends - please select your favorite US state to register!) I will post a link to a recording of the webinar for those unable to attend. Dr. Eve is the author of a new open access book, Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future. LYRASIS is working with OLH to support the initiative in North America. Libraries may indicate their support of OLH at the North American pledge site. Celeste Celeste Feather Senior Director for Licensing and Strategic Partnerships LYRASIS celeste.feather at lyrasis.org 800-999-8558 ext. 2954 (Toll-free) 678-235-2954 (Direct) celeste.feather (Skype) [cid:image001.png at 01CE1341.AA604180] [cid:image002.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180][cid:image003.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180] Check lyrasisnow.org for news and feature articles. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 10337 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 854 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 815 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: From ldibiase at uw.edu Tue Feb 17 14:55:20 2015 From: ldibiase at uw.edu (Linda DiBiase) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:55:20 -0800 Subject: [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer Message-ID: <014601d04aeb$a9248fe0$fb6dafa0$@uw.edu> Celeste, After haranguing our vendor YBP and Project MUSE for years, it seems as if they have settled their differences and it will now be possible to purchase entire MUSE collections through YBP. I have told YBP I am willing to pay a "reasonable" premium for their value-added services, but before they can give me a quote, they have asked to know what we would pay for the MUSE collections through Lyrasis. I have not responded to them and of course would only share the pricing with your permission. If this is confidential, then I am thinking of sharing what we paid last year. I think as a public institution this information is not confidential; my (retired/re-employed) colleague Tim Jewell could confirm this for me. Relative to our plans for MUSE, we are still hoping to purchase the entire 2015 collection, though I am looking at our usage stats to target which collections have been the most used by us should our FY2016 budget projections turn gloomy. I have the March 31st deadline firmly in mind. Thanks for getting back to me on this, Celeste. Hope you are doing well! Linda Linda Teresa Di Biase Collection Development Librarian University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 T: (206) 543-9784 F: (206) 616-2380 Office hours: Tu Wed Th 8-4 From: Uwlib-eresources [mailto:uwlib-eresources-bounces at mailman11.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Celeste Feather Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1:58 PM To: LYRASIS ARL Collection Development Contacts Subject: [Uwlib-eresources] [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer For the 4th year, I am pleased to announce a special ARL Licensing Initiative Offer from Project MUSE for the UPCC eBook Collections. Details are in the attached memo and pricing spreadsheet. The Project MUSE/UPCC collections have gained a sizeable footprint in the marketplace now. I was glad for the opportunity to participate in two panels at the recent Charleston Conference with librarians that are delving deeply into their use of these collections. Harvard, Emory, and Yale presented their findings to date on the usage of MUSE titles in print and electronic formats. UNC-Charlotte presented an interesting case study of their successful outreach to faculty to select DRM-free MUSE titles as course adoption titles this fall. This year for the first time we have been able to negotiate special offers for smaller libraries in the MUSE pricing tiers. I am glad to see more opportunities extended to other libraries, as that is one of the goals of the ARL Licensing Initiative. In addition to the annual special offers for the entire MUSE ALL BOOKS collection and the annual "top-off" collection for the libraries that have already purchased ALL BOOKS, there are other Special Offers that extend through March 31, 2015. They include: . Early Purchase Offer on 2015 Collections for Libraries That Purchased Collections in 2014: 20% discount on 2015 Complete, or 15% discount on any 2015 Subject or Area Studies . 2013-2015 Complete Bundle: 20% off the purchase of all 9,067 titles from 2013-2015 . 2013-2015 Subject or Area Studies Bundle: 15% off the bundled purchase of Subject or Area Studies collections from 2013-2015 Please let me know if you have any questions, and I will be glad to work with you if you are interested in placing orders for the MUSE/UPCC collections in 2015. 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 01CE1341.AA604180 cid:image002.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180 cid:image003.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We've reached agreement to ARL license terms and have negotiated pricing to the maximum extent using the leverage of the ARL library community. The next key question that needs to be addressed is how libraries can make certain that they get all of the titles from a university press that they want, and avoid the purchase of multiple copies (print or online) unless they are needed. When the presses are not able to put their entire title output on a single site, tracking the availability of titles from multiple locations becomes a challenge for research libraries. Our three ARL Licensing Initiative aggregators have been discussing this matter with us for the past 3 years. There are multiple ways of addressing the issue, and a variety of options are being actively explored among them. With respect to Project MUSE and YBP, as you mention below, I am aware that very recently YBP has proposed a fee-based structure as an added cost to the content fee for the MUSE collections so that they can provide title level tracking services via GOBI. It is my understanding that YBP requires the order to be placed directly with them for these services to be available. The ARL/LYRASIS licenses that we have signed with the university press aggregators obligate LYRASIS to perform certain duties. The licenses therefore can only cover the orders that are placed through LYRASIS. If you place an order with YBP, you will need to make alternative arrangements regarding the license. I will also note that as the ARL agent, LYRASIS will not be able to retrieve usage data from Project MUSE for your institution for collections purchased through other channels. Per the terms of the ARL license agreements, the pricing for these offers is not confidential. The 2015 MUSE pricing is available at http://bit.ly/2015MUSEARLPricing. This pricing sets forth the content fee that LYRASIS sends to Project MUSE, and also a transparent administrative fee that covers the work LYRASIS performs on behalf of ARL to negotiate and administer the offers. If an institution were to acquire this content directly from Project MUSE, the cost would be higher than the sum of the content fees in this pricing schedule and the LYRASIS administrative fee. Discussion on or off list is welcome, as always. Celeste From: lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Linda DiBiase Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:55 PM To: 'LYRASIS ARL Collection Development Contacts' Subject: [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer Celeste, After haranguing our vendor YBP and Project MUSE for years, it seems as if they have settled their differences and it will now be possible to purchase entire MUSE collections through YBP. I have told YBP I am willing to pay a "reasonable" premium for their value-added services, but before they can give me a quote, they have asked to know what we would pay for the MUSE collections through Lyrasis. I have not responded to them and of course would only share the pricing with your permission. If this is confidential, then I am thinking of sharing what we paid last year. I think as a public institution this information is not confidential; my (retired/re-employed) colleague Tim Jewell could confirm this for me. Relative to our plans for MUSE, we are still hoping to purchase the entire 2015 collection, though I am looking at our usage stats to target which collections have been the most used by us should our FY2016 budget projections turn gloomy. I have the March 31st deadline firmly in mind. Thanks for getting back to me on this, Celeste. Hope you are doing well! Linda Linda Teresa Di Biase Collection Development Librarian University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 T: (206) 543-9784 F: (206) 616-2380 Office hours: Tu Wed Th 8-4 From: Uwlib-eresources [mailto:uwlib-eresources-bounces at mailman11.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Celeste Feather Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1:58 PM To: LYRASIS ARL Collection Development Contacts Subject: [Uwlib-eresources] [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer For the 4th year, I am pleased to announce a special ARL Licensing Initiative Offer from Project MUSE for the UPCC eBook Collections. Details are in the attached memo and pricing spreadsheet. The Project MUSE/UPCC collections have gained a sizeable footprint in the marketplace now. I was glad for the opportunity to participate in two panels at the recent Charleston Conference with librarians that are delving deeply into their use of these collections. Harvard, Emory, and Yale presented their findings to date on the usage of MUSE titles in print and electronic formats. UNC-Charlotte presented an interesting case study of their successful outreach to faculty to select DRM-free MUSE titles as course adoption titles this fall. This year for the first time we have been able to negotiate special offers for smaller libraries in the MUSE pricing tiers. I am glad to see more opportunities extended to other libraries, as that is one of the goals of the ARL Licensing Initiative. In addition to the annual special offers for the entire MUSE ALL BOOKS collection and the annual "top-off" collection for the libraries that have already purchased ALL BOOKS, there are other Special Offers that extend through March 31, 2015. They include: * Early Purchase Offer on 2015 Collections for Libraries That Purchased Collections in 2014: 20% discount on 2015 Complete, or 15% discount on any 2015 Subject or Area Studies * 2013-2015 Complete Bundle: 20% off the purchase of all 9,067 titles from 2013-2015 * 2013-2015 Subject or Area Studies Bundle: 15% off the bundled purchase of Subject or Area Studies collections from 2013-2015 Please let me know if you have any questions, and I will be glad to work with you if you are interested in placing orders for the MUSE/UPCC collections in 2015. 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 01CE1341.AA604180] [cid:image002.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180][cid:image003.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As we make our purchase decision on MUSE, we will be weighing the trade-offs, fiscal and otherwise. More later, Linda From: lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Celeste Feather Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:59 PM To: LYRASIS ARL Collection Development Contacts Subject: Re: [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer Linda, You've hit upon the largest remaining issue that confronts us in our ongoing work with the university press aggregators. We've reached agreement to ARL license terms and have negotiated pricing to the maximum extent using the leverage of the ARL library community. The next key question that needs to be addressed is how libraries can make certain that they get all of the titles from a university press that they want, and avoid the purchase of multiple copies (print or online) unless they are needed. When the presses are not able to put their entire title output on a single site, tracking the availability of titles from multiple locations becomes a challenge for research libraries. Our three ARL Licensing Initiative aggregators have been discussing this matter with us for the past 3 years. There are multiple ways of addressing the issue, and a variety of options are being actively explored among them. With respect to Project MUSE and YBP, as you mention below, I am aware that very recently YBP has proposed a fee-based structure as an added cost to the content fee for the MUSE collections so that they can provide title level tracking services via GOBI. It is my understanding that YBP requires the order to be placed directly with them for these services to be available. The ARL/LYRASIS licenses that we have signed with the university press aggregators obligate LYRASIS to perform certain duties. The licenses therefore can only cover the orders that are placed through LYRASIS. If you place an order with YBP, you will need to make alternative arrangements regarding the license. I will also note that as the ARL agent, LYRASIS will not be able to retrieve usage data from Project MUSE for your institution for collections purchased through other channels. Per the terms of the ARL license agreements, the pricing for these offers is not confidential. The 2015 MUSE pricing is available at http://bit.ly/2015MUSEARLPricing. This pricing sets forth the content fee that LYRASIS sends to Project MUSE, and also a transparent administrative fee that covers the work LYRASIS performs on behalf of ARL to negotiate and administer the offers. If an institution were to acquire this content directly from Project MUSE, the cost would be higher than the sum of the content fees in this pricing schedule and the LYRASIS administrative fee. Discussion on or off list is welcome, as always. Celeste From: lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Linda DiBiase Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:55 PM To: 'LYRASIS ARL Collection Development Contacts' Subject: [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer Celeste, After haranguing our vendor YBP and Project MUSE for years, it seems as if they have settled their differences and it will now be possible to purchase entire MUSE collections through YBP. I have told YBP I am willing to pay a "reasonable" premium for their value-added services, but before they can give me a quote, they have asked to know what we would pay for the MUSE collections through Lyrasis. I have not responded to them and of course would only share the pricing with your permission. If this is confidential, then I am thinking of sharing what we paid last year. I think as a public institution this information is not confidential; my (retired/re-employed) colleague Tim Jewell could confirm this for me. Relative to our plans for MUSE, we are still hoping to purchase the entire 2015 collection, though I am looking at our usage stats to target which collections have been the most used by us should our FY2016 budget projections turn gloomy. I have the March 31st deadline firmly in mind. Thanks for getting back to me on this, Celeste. Hope you are doing well! Linda Linda Teresa Di Biase Collection Development Librarian University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 T: (206) 543-9784 F: (206) 616-2380 Office hours: Tu Wed Th 8-4 From: Uwlib-eresources [ mailto:uwlib-eresources-bounces at mailman11.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Celeste Feather Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1:58 PM To: LYRASIS ARL Collection Development Contacts Subject: [Uwlib-eresources] [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer For the 4th year, I am pleased to announce a special ARL Licensing Initiative Offer from Project MUSE for the UPCC eBook Collections. Details are in the attached memo and pricing spreadsheet. The Project MUSE/UPCC collections have gained a sizeable footprint in the marketplace now. I was glad for the opportunity to participate in two panels at the recent Charleston Conference with librarians that are delving deeply into their use of these collections. Harvard, Emory, and Yale presented their findings to date on the usage of MUSE titles in print and electronic formats. UNC-Charlotte presented an interesting case study of their successful outreach to faculty to select DRM-free MUSE titles as course adoption titles this fall. This year for the first time we have been able to negotiate special offers for smaller libraries in the MUSE pricing tiers. I am glad to see more opportunities extended to other libraries, as that is one of the goals of the ARL Licensing Initiative. In addition to the annual special offers for the entire MUSE ALL BOOKS collection and the annual "top-off" collection for the libraries that have already purchased ALL BOOKS, there are other Special Offers that extend through March 31, 2015. They include: . Early Purchase Offer on 2015 Collections for Libraries That Purchased Collections in 2014: 20% discount on 2015 Complete, or 15% discount on any 2015 Subject or Area Studies . 2013-2015 Complete Bundle: 20% off the purchase of all 9,067 titles from 2013-2015 . 2013-2015 Subject or Area Studies Bundle: 15% off the bundled purchase of Subject or Area Studies collections from 2013-2015 Please let me know if you have any questions, and I will be glad to work with you if you are interested in placing orders for the MUSE/UPCC collections in 2015. 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 01CE1341.AA604180 cid:image002.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180 cid:image003.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 815 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ssmavor at uwaterloo.ca Tue Feb 17 17:32:39 2015 From: ssmavor at uwaterloo.ca (Susan Mavor) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:32:39 +0000 Subject: [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer In-Reply-To: References: <014601d04aeb$a9248fe0$fb6dafa0$@uw.edu> Message-ID: <970EAC2AA9B82D489E1918A63EB520F6695AB2A6@connmbx01> Please remove me from this list ,many thanks. -Susan Mavor From: lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Celeste Feather Sent: February-17-15 3:59 PM To: LYRASIS ARL Collection Development Contacts Subject: Re: [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer Linda, You've hit upon the largest remaining issue that confronts us in our ongoing work with the university press aggregators. We've reached agreement to ARL license terms and have negotiated pricing to the maximum extent using the leverage of the ARL library community. The next key question that needs to be addressed is how libraries can make certain that they get all of the titles from a university press that they want, and avoid the purchase of multiple copies (print or online) unless they are needed. When the presses are not able to put their entire title output on a single site, tracking the availability of titles from multiple locations becomes a challenge for research libraries. Our three ARL Licensing Initiative aggregators have been discussing this matter with us for the past 3 years. There are multiple ways of addressing the issue, and a variety of options are being actively explored among them. With respect to Project MUSE and YBP, as you mention below, I am aware that very recently YBP has proposed a fee-based structure as an added cost to the content fee for the MUSE collections so that they can provide title level tracking services via GOBI. It is my understanding that YBP requires the order to be placed directly with them for these services to be available. The ARL/LYRASIS licenses that we have signed with the university press aggregators obligate LYRASIS to perform certain duties. The licenses therefore can only cover the orders that are placed through LYRASIS. If you place an order with YBP, you will need to make alternative arrangements regarding the license. I will also note that as the ARL agent, LYRASIS will not be able to retrieve usage data from Project MUSE for your institution for collections purchased through other channels. Per the terms of the ARL license agreements, the pricing for these offers is not confidential. The 2015 MUSE pricing is available at http://bit.ly/2015MUSEARLPricing. This pricing sets forth the content fee that LYRASIS sends to Project MUSE, and also a transparent administrative fee that covers the work LYRASIS performs on behalf of ARL to negotiate and administer the offers. If an institution were to acquire this content directly from Project MUSE, the cost would be higher than the sum of the content fees in this pricing schedule and the LYRASIS administrative fee. Discussion on or off list is welcome, as always. Celeste From: lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:lyrarl-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Linda DiBiase Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 2:55 PM To: 'LYRASIS ARL Collection Development Contacts' Subject: [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer Celeste, After haranguing our vendor YBP and Project MUSE for years, it seems as if they have settled their differences and it will now be possible to purchase entire MUSE collections through YBP. I have told YBP I am willing to pay a "reasonable" premium for their value-added services, but before they can give me a quote, they have asked to know what we would pay for the MUSE collections through Lyrasis. I have not responded to them and of course would only share the pricing with your permission. If this is confidential, then I am thinking of sharing what we paid last year. I think as a public institution this information is not confidential; my (retired/re-employed) colleague Tim Jewell could confirm this for me. Relative to our plans for MUSE, we are still hoping to purchase the entire 2015 collection, though I am looking at our usage stats to target which collections have been the most used by us should our FY2016 budget projections turn gloomy. I have the March 31st deadline firmly in mind. Thanks for getting back to me on this, Celeste. Hope you are doing well! Linda Linda Teresa Di Biase Collection Development Librarian University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 T: (206) 543-9784 F: (206) 616-2380 Office hours: Tu Wed Th 8-4 From: Uwlib-eresources [mailto:uwlib-eresources-bounces at mailman11.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Celeste Feather Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1:58 PM To: LYRASIS ARL Collection Development Contacts Subject: [Uwlib-eresources] [Lyrarl] 2015 Project MUSE/UPCC eBook Collections Offer For the 4th year, I am pleased to announce a special ARL Licensing Initiative Offer from Project MUSE for the UPCC eBook Collections. Details are in the attached memo and pricing spreadsheet. The Project MUSE/UPCC collections have gained a sizeable footprint in the marketplace now. I was glad for the opportunity to participate in two panels at the recent Charleston Conference with librarians that are delving deeply into their use of these collections. Harvard, Emory, and Yale presented their findings to date on the usage of MUSE titles in print and electronic formats. UNC-Charlotte presented an interesting case study of their successful outreach to faculty to select DRM-free MUSE titles as course adoption titles this fall. This year for the first time we have been able to negotiate special offers for smaller libraries in the MUSE pricing tiers. I am glad to see more opportunities extended to other libraries, as that is one of the goals of the ARL Licensing Initiative. In addition to the annual special offers for the entire MUSE ALL BOOKS collection and the annual "top-off" collection for the libraries that have already purchased ALL BOOKS, there are other Special Offers that extend through March 31, 2015. They include: * Early Purchase Offer on 2015 Collections for Libraries That Purchased Collections in 2014: 20% discount on 2015 Complete, or 15% discount on any 2015 Subject or Area Studies * 2013-2015 Complete Bundle: 20% off the purchase of all 9,067 titles from 2013-2015 * 2013-2015 Subject or Area Studies Bundle: 15% off the bundled purchase of Subject or Area Studies collections from 2013-2015 Please let me know if you have any questions, and I will be glad to work with you if you are interested in placing orders for the MUSE/UPCC collections in 2015. 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 01CE1341.AA604180] [cid:image002.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180][cid:image003.jpg at 01CE1341.AA604180] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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