From: Primary Research Group <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:21:12 -0400

Primary Research Group has published Bundled Journals Package Contract
Negotiations Benchmarks, ISBN 978-157440-3978.

The study presents data from 37 libraries and consortia, predominantly
research university libraries, about their experiences in negotiating
bundled packages of journal subscriptions with major publishers.  The
report gives detailed information on which librarians by work title
play the primary role in negotiations, the role of others in the
organization, such as legal counsel, and spending on negotiation
training.  The study also looks at the provisions of contracts,
providing data on the percentage of contracts with financial distress
cancellation clauses, with title swapping privileges, provisions for
perpetual access, and use of non-disclosure agreements and other
contract terms.  In addition, the report looks at the role of
consortia, and the impact on negotiating leverage of the growing use
of open access sources and developments in inter-library loan.   It
also presents librarian self-assessment of their own negotiating
skills, and the ease or difficulty in obtaining concessions from
journal publishers, in the past, and in the future.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

·         Fifty-one per cent of respondents said their library or
consortia had negotiated content swapping arrangements which enable
the license holder to substitute one set of journals or other form of
content for another during the course of a contract.
·         Five percent of research university libraries sampled had
paid for webinars to enhance their librarian’s negotiating skills.
·         Libraries with journal spending of less than $1 million were
more likely to say they had dropped a bundle in the past year.
Thirty-three per cent of libraries with journal spending of less than
$250,000 and 25 per cent of libraries with spending between $250,000
and $1 million had done so.

For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com –
or call us at 212-736-2316.

James Moses, Research Director
Primary Research Group Inc.
2753 Broadway #156
New York, New York  10025
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