The Eroding of the subscription Model and emerging alternatives

Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Hub Cira Centre
2929 Arch Street
Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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***AGENDA***

In the current economic climate libraries have limited purchasing power. Academic budgets are declining while the need for access to digital information is increasing on today's wired campuses. As a result, innovative librarians are seeking alternative methods to access and acquire the content required by their faculty, students, and researchers. Is resource sharing the answer? Will purchase on demand work for books and journals? Is the subscription model no longer viable - even for scholarly materials? This workshop will take a look at what new business models are emerging, their success, and what the future holds for the subscription model in the distribution of scholarly and scientific information.

8:30am - 9:00am:  Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am - 9:15am:  Welcome

Bonnie Lawlor, NFAIS Executive Director
Maureen C. Kelly, Information Consultant, Moderator

9:15am - 9:45am:  An Overview of the Current Landscape

Is the role of the subscription model declining beyond the newspaper world? Is pay-as you-go an alternative business model for scholarly publishing? Are other models emerging? This session will provide a general overview of the content purchasing/licensing landscape and take a look at how things are shaping for the future.

Dan Tonkery, President & CEO, Content Strategies [ Slides ]

9:45am - 10:30am:  An Overview of Library Budgets: The ACRL Environmental Scan

This session will look at the current status of library budgets based upon the environmental scan undertaken by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) that was released in June 2011. What is the real purchasing power of today's academic libraries and how might it change in the near term?

Lisa Hinchliffe, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana [ Slides ]

10:30am - 10:45am: Break and Networking Opportunity

10:45am - 11:45pm: Erosion of the Subscription Model: the Librarian's Perspective

This session will take a look at how academic librarians are balancing the need for access to scholarly research materials by faculty and students with the significantly reduced budgets that are the reality of the current economic situation. Are they cancelling subscriptions? Have they identified alternative solutions that work? How do they see the future of content acquisition and/or access?

Betsy Appleton, Electronic Resources Librarian, George Mason University Libraries [ Slides ]; Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Center for Research Libraries [Slides To Come]

11:45am - 12:45pm: Lunch (will be provided)

12:45pm - 2:15pm: Erosion of the Subscription Model: the Publisher's Perspective

Are publishers and database producers seeing a decline in subscriptions? If so, to what do they attribute the decline? What alternatives do they see emerging? Does packaging with like-content increase sales? Have they experimented with new business models and if so, what are the results to date? This session will take a look at how some publishers are adapting to market changes and how they perceive the future of content acquisition and/or access.

Linda Beebe, Senior Director, American Psychological Association/PsycINFO [ Slides ]; M. Scott Dineen, Deputy Senior Director, Publications, Optical Society of America [ Slides ]; Amy Pedersen, Vice President, Channel Management and Marketing Operations, Elsevier Science & Technology Books.

2:15pm - 2:30pm: Break and Networking Opportunity

2:30pm - 4:00pm: Emerging Alternatives to Subscriptions

What business models are being used by innovative content aggregators and publishing platforms? How are they meeting the needs of librarians and what distribution advantages can they offer to content providers.

Jason E. Phillips, Director, Sales Strategy, JSTOR | Portico [ Slides ]; Rebecca Seger, Director, Institutional Sales, Americas, Oxford University Press [ Slides ]

4:00pm:  Adjourn