Economics and Usage of Digital Libraries: Byting the Bullet

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Title:	Economics and Usage of Digital Libraries: Byting the Bullet
Publication Info:	Ann Arbor, MI: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library 2008
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Subject terms:	Libraries -- Electronic information resources. Electronic information resources -- Management. Digital libraries -- Economic aspects.
URL:	http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.5621225.0001.001

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Acknowledgements

II. Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge: The PEAK Experiment

Section Introduction: Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge (The PEAK Experiment)
Wendy Pradt Lougee

4. The PEAK Project: A Field Experiment in Pricing and Usage of a Digital Collection
Maria S. Bonn, Wendy Pradt Lougee, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Juan F. Riveros

4.1 PEAK in context: Electronic journal publishing and the University of Michigan Library

4.2 Issues guiding the design of PEAK

4.3 System design and implementation

4.4 Economic and experimental design

Revenues and costs

4.7 User demographics

5. PEAK and Elsevier Science
Karen Hunter

5.1 Pre-PEAK experimentation with the University of Michigan

5.2 From TULIP to PEAK

5.3 PEAK design

5.4 Elsevier's ScienceDirect activities during PEAK

5.5 ScienceDirect versus PEAK pricing

5.6 Access to the whole database

5.7 Transition from PEAK to ScienceDirect

5.8 Longer term effect of PEAK on ScienceDirect

6. User cost, usage and library purchasing of electronically-accessed journals
Robert S. Gazzale and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Access options offered

6.3 Summary of user costs

6.4 Effects of user cost on access

Non-pecuniary costs

Pecuniary costs

Summary: Effects of user costs

6.5 Effects of Expected User Cost on Access

6.6 Improving library budgeting with usage information

Improved budgeting with improved usage forecasts

Decisions about specific titles

Dynamic Optimal Choice

III. Digital Publishing Economics
Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason

8. Scholarly Journal and Digital Database Pricing: Threat or Opportunity?
Donald W. King and Carol Tenopir

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Are Scientific Scholarly Journals Worth Saving?

8.3 Scholarly Journals Examined from a Systems Perspective

8.4 To Understand Price One Must Understand Publishing Costs

8.5 What do Average Prices Mean?

8.6 Reasons Why Journal Subscription Prices Spiraled Upward

8.7 Factors That Affect Demand

8.8 What Are We Really Buying?

8.9 Era of Site Licensing and Package Arrangements

8.10 Some Alternative Pricing Policies

9. Economic Models of Digital-Only Journals
Leah Halliday and Charles Oppenheim

9.3 Modelling software and simulations

9.5 Traditional model

9.6 Free-access model

9.7 The market model

10. Electronic Publishing Models and The Pricing Challenge
Michael P. Spinella

10.1 Scholarly Publishing in Transition

10.2 Access and Pricing Models

10.3 Pricing Challenges

10.4 Conclusions

11. A Portfolio Approach to Journal Pricing
Mark J. McCabe

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Journal Demand

11.3 For-Profit Journal Pricing

11.4 Testing the Portfolio Theory

Empirical Models

Descriptive Statistics

Estimation Results

11.5 Policy Implications and Future Directions

Market Failure?

Antitrust Paradigms

A Digital Future

11.6 Conclusions

12. Capitalizing on Competition: The Economic Underpinnings of SPARC
Mary M. Case

12.1 The Environment

12.2 The Noncompetitive STM Marketplace

12.3 Calls for Competition

SPARC Alternatives

SPARC Leading Edge Partnerships

SPARC Scientific Communities

12.5 Evaluating the SPARC Model

The SPARC Purchasing Commitment

The Emergence of New Pricing Models

12.6 Measuring Success

IV. Building and Using Digital Libraries

14. Building and Using Digital Libraries
Wendy Pradt Lougee

15. The Economics of Digital Access: The Early Canadiana Online Project
Bruce R. Kingma

15.1 Introduction

15.2 The Costs and Benefits of Digital Access to Information

Patrons of Early Canadiana Online

Individual and Shared Costs and the Role of Information Intermediaries

Market Forces: Demand and Supply

15.3 Cost Estimates of Early Canadiana Online

The Cost of Print

The Cost of Microfiche

The Cost of Digital

Economies of Scale

Cost of Access to Digital Information

User Costs of Access

15.4 Conclusions

17. Revitalizing Older Published Literature: Preliminary Lessons from the Use of JSTOR
Kevin M. Guthrie

17.1 Comparing JSTOR Use to the Usage of the Journals in Paper Format

17.2 The Interdisciplinary Appeal of JSTOR

17.3 Nature and Distribution of Use

17.4 Selection Criteria

17.5 Age of Useful Articles

17.6 Conclusion

18. Measuring the Impact of an Electronic Journal Collection on Library Costs: A Framework and Preliminary Observations
Carol Hansen Montgomery

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Background

18.3 Development of Drexel's Electronic Journal Collection

18.4 Impact on Library Staffing and Other Costs

Subscription Costs

Administration/Management

Technical Services

Circulation/Access/Stack Maintenance

Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan (DD/ILL)

Reference/Information Services (IS)

18.5 Discussion

19. The Impact of Digital Collections on Library Use: The Manager's Perspective
Hannelore B. Rader

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Electronic Information Environment — Kentucky

19.3 University of Louisville — Libraries

19.4 Library Use — Statistics and Observations

19.5 Electronic Information Use in Distance Education

19.6 Assessment of Library Users

20. Economics and Usage of a Corporate Digital Library
David Alsmeyer

20.1 Background

20.2 The BT Library

20.3 Methodology

20.4 Qualitative feedback

20.5 Usage of the Digital Library

20.6 Conclusion