JM2010 Contributed Paper: Stretching Those Resource Dollars: Lessons Learned on Building and Managing a Hospital Library Consortium for Cooperative E-Licensing
Posted on January 28, 2010 by ebrennan | 1 Comment
Posted by Evonda Copeland, Supervisor of Library Services, Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, AZ
With “Stretching Those Resource Dollars: Lessons Learned on Building and Managing a Hospital Library Consortium for Cooperative E-Licensing” Julie Kwan, Rick Burke and James Wiser shared first year results from the e-licensing collaborative between the National Network of Libraries of Medicine-Pacific Southwest Region (NN/LM-PSR) and the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC). Since 2008, this partnership has resulted in 8 vendor offers to 25 participating libraries, yielding a 73% discount from participating vendor list prices. Nature Publishing Group and Springer have been especially helpful in offering discounted e-licensing agreements to SCELC members and affiliates.
What else does this partnership accomplish? For hospital libraries, it provides better pricing, cooperation with other libraries, a centralized negotiator of contracts, and solutions for libraries of all sizes and budgets. For the PSRML, it helps NN/LM provide added value to hospital libraries by partnering with someone who understands the library community, offers broad access to vendors, provides negotiating expertise, and customizes vendor offers for hospital libraries. For SCELC, the partnership provides an opportunity for increased income and increased leveraging power with vendors. And for vendors, it provides greater opportunities for sales, better connections to a large customer base, and centralizes negotiations and payments.
In other words, this partnership is a win-win for everyone!
Another e-licensing survey will be coming soon to PSR member libraries. Your feedback is critical for the future direction and success of this PSRML-SCELC partnership.
You can learn more about SCELC from their website (http://scelc.org). If you need more information about how your PSR library can become a SCELC affiliate, you can contact Julie Kwan (jkkwan@library.ucla.edu) for details.
Posted 1/28/10
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April 23rd, 2010 @ 3:56 pm
Check out the slides at: http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AaEMcnROXV0VZGR2c2t0djRfMTczZnhwM2NxZDk&hl=en
Or
http://nnlm.gov/psr/training/presentations/