From: Michael Clarke <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:23:29 +0000 I wonder where the profit margin figures for T&F and Springer Nature come from given these are privately held companies? Of note, last time I checked UVA doesn’t subscribe to T&F’s collection. So the percent of its budget tied up by Big Deal packages would be even larger than half if it included T&F (cited below are only Elsevier, Wiley, Sage, and Springer-Nature). The 16% increase in Elsevier costs is over 5 years, so that is a 4% annual increase, which is not atypical. For perspective, the $8 million UVA spends on electronic research is a quarter of a percent of the university’s $3.1 billion operating budget, a figure not cited in this presentation nor the summary below. *Date: *Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 10:47 PM *To: *"[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> *Subject: *Research information costs at the University of Virginia From: Colin Steele <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 7:02 PM Of interest to the list - Research information costs of the University of Virginia power points at: http://people.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/research.information.costs.uva.pdf includes the following from the slides- RESEARCH INFORMATION COSTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA by Brandon Butler and John Unsworth Presentation to UVA Electronic resources make up over 80% of our acquisitions budget • Of that percentage, Elsevier, Wiley, Sage, and Springer-Nature (primarilynSTEM content) consume more than half. • Their slice of our collections budget has doubled in less than a decade – from 21% in 2009 to 43% today. • Electronic subscriptions consume 100% of our state funding; all otherbresources have been acquired using local funds for the past several years, and those funds are not replenishing fast enough to support appropriate collection-building. E-licensing costs projected to grow 33% overall, And there are important research resources that we don’t have access to, already • Total spend on e-resources will grow from ~$8mil to ~$10.7mil • Elsevier deal alone grows 16% over this time, a contractual ncommitment we cannot change Publisher Profit Margins Rival Apple, Big Pharma • Pharmaceuticals (Pfizer): 42% • RELX (Elsevier): 39% • Apple: 37% • Taylor & Francis: 36% • Springer-Nature: 35% • Banking (Industrial & Commercial Bank of China): 29% • Wiley: 28% --------------------------------------------- Colin Steele Emeritus Fellow ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences The Australian National University Room 3.31, Beryl Rawson Building #13 Acton, ACT, 2601 Australia P: + 61 2 6125 8983 <+61%202%206125%208983> E: [log in to unmask]