Apologies for cross posting…

 

The ALPSP would like to announce the publication of a report on:

 

The Impact of Aggregated Databases on Primary Journals in the Academic Library Market and a Review of Publisher Practice

by John Cox, John Cox Associates Ltd

 

ISBN: 0-907341-28-4

 

Before the advent of the Internet, licensing content to third parties for re-publication in non-print formats was seen as an innocuous generator of some modest additional revenue. Since online information delivery has become the norm, this has changed, and the distinction between publishers’ own online packages and the packages provided by aggregators has become blurred.

 

This ALPSP Report is an overview of the impact of aggregated databases on primary journals in the academic library market, based on published literature and on an accumulation of evidence from both publishers and libraries throughout the world, including interview-based research conducted during 2003 and 2004. It reviews how aggregated databases and publishers’ own primary journals are used within university teaching and research. It discusses the impact of aggregated databases on publishers’ subscription and journal licence revenue. It reviews the issues that concern publishers in managing a content licensing policy of which aggregators are a component. It contains profiles of each of the principal aggregators licensing full text journal content or serving the academic library market, including input specifically requested from the aggregators that have been profiled.

 

This Report is designed to guide publishers and journal proprietors, including learned societies and university presses, on the application and use of journal content, whether subscribed to individually or as part of a publisher’s package, or as a component of a larger aggregation of journal full text. It also indicates the potential impact of licensing content to aggregators on the publisher’s primary journal business.

 

ALPSP members can access the report electronically through the members’ area of the website and non-members can find an order form at: http://www.alpsp.org/publications/pub9.htm.

 

Print copies are priced as follows:

 

ALPSP members: £50/$120/€95 per copy

Non-members: £100/$200/€170 per copy