What's Education Got to Do With It: Downsizing From the Big Deal

Downsizing from the Big Deal:

education What’s love got to do with it?

Robert Kelly, Collection Development and Economics Librarian

Susann deVries, Education Librarian

Eastern Michigan University

Eastern Michigan University Bruce T. Halle Library

Lay of the Land

Size of Institution

# of Colleges and departments

Student population

Times are changingReasoning and

Purposehttp://aegishi4.com

Overall EMU materials budgetexpenditures: 2008-2011

$0

$200,000

$400,000

$600,000

$800,000

$1,000,000

$1,200,000

$1,400,000

2008

Exp

200

9 Exp

2010

Exp

2011

Allo

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Print Books

Print Journals

Ejournals

Databases

Electronic Journal Packages = 14

Big Deal Packages = 7

Average cost per article download=$2.96

Average cost per article download = $5.72

EMU E-Journal Packages

Data Collected

# of titles

Usage

Cost per use

Impact factor

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Data Analysis

Data driven investigation

Assessment

Faculty interview and outreach

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Strategy

Departmental Level• Economics

College Level• College of

Education

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Working with faculty: Identification

msupress.msu.edu

www.emich.edu/focus

www.emich.edu/focus

www.emich.edu/focus

www.emich.edu/economics

http://people.emich.edu/myaya

www.emich.edu/economics

www.emich.edu/coe/ted/edps

Department of Economics: Process

No vetting ahead of time Gave all subject titles No dollar limit

http://courses.moodleshare.com

Results: Economics Initially looked ONLY at

titles and not data to avoid bias

Primary decision factors for Core: Courses taught, graduate programs, faculty research

Data helped refine decision on core titles - Retained 2 of 5 original core

Revised Core cost increased from $2K to $4K.

Eager participants Personal experiences Order of importance

College of Education

Vetted titles Identified journals “on the

fence” No dollar limit

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Results: College of Education

Willing participants

Reemphasized how education is interdisciplinary in nature

Liaison in department will have to work closely with their faculty

CostSuite of Titles

Cost Suite of titles

How packages are being used

Informed decision

Impact of cancellin

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Additional Benefits

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Scalable?

Working with librarians Other packages Departments

Colleges

Any size library

Software

Impact factor

Working with faculty

One package at a time

Which one?

What time?

Looking ahead

Thank you!

Questions?

Robert Kelly- [email protected] deVries- [email protected]