Stuart,
I have a copy of your report and read it with great interest. However, I
could not find the answers I was looking for.
Things have moved very fast since then.
I shall be most grateful for your own views on the current situation.
Regards
Gurdish
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Mrs Gurdish Sandhu
Collections Development Manager
Information Services Division
University of Salford
Adelphi Campus
Peru Street
Salford M3 6EQ
Tel: 0161 295 6222
FAX: 0161 295 6189
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Sent: 26 January 2005 10:33
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Subject: Re: Funding models for electronic resources purchases
Hi
you might be interested in looking at a the report of a JISC-funded
project
I led called PURCEL a few years ago. The report is at the following url
http://www.library.sunderland.ac.uk/library-services/research-projects/p
urcel/purcel_final_report.pdf/view
(Exec summary at start)
Stuart Halliday
Gurdish Sandhu wrote:
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> Colleagues,
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> I would like to solicit your views on the funding models of electronic
> resources purchases.
>
> As you are aware that there is no standard funding model for
electronic
> resources yet. I understand that money is transferred either from
> recurrent or non-recurrent funds or sometimes from special pots on
adhoc
> basis. I feel current mechanisms are inadequate and inappropriate to
> cope with electronic resources purchases. They cause quite few
problems
> such as convincing academic colleagues to cancel print subscriptions.
>
> Secondly, data collection for SCONUL returns particularly for
electronic
> resources becomes time consuming, difficult and haphazard.
>
> I would like to know if any one has come up with any solution to
address
> the above issues.
>
> I would like to think that it would be much easier to maintain and
> collect financial data if we were to split the library material budget
> right at the start into 3 heads i.e. print books, print journals and
> electronic resources. But that raises another issue that what % goes
to
> e-resources. PURCEL report 2000 mentioned that libraries spend 16% on
> average on electronic resources. However, there has been a rapid
growth
> in electronic resources over the last four years. I am sure the
current
> figure should be higher than 16%.
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> Your views would be most welcomed on the above issue.
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> I would be happy to produce a summary of all the responses received.
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> Gurdish
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> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Mrs Gurdish Sandhu
> Collections Development Manager
> Information Services Division
> University of Salford
> Adelphi Campus
> Peru Street
> Salford M3 6EQ
> Tel: 0161 295 6222
> FAX: 0161 295 6189
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