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News from the battlefield: Spain Núria Comellas (CBUC) ICOLC 11th Fall Meeting Paris , October 26 th 2009. Context. Spain: 45M population, 1´5M students, 50 public universities + 27 private universities Just 1 national license: ISI WOK 8 academic consortia including 3 “buying clubs”

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  1. News from the battlefield: SpainNúria Comellas (CBUC)ICOLC 11th Fall MeetingParis, October 26th 2009

  2. Context • Spain: • 45M population, 1´5M students, 50 public universities + 27 private universities • Just 1 national license: ISI WOK • 8 academic consortia • including 3 “buying clubs” • and a network of research institutes’ libraries (CSIC)

  3. Spanish consortia and the crisis • Important budget cuts in some autonomous communities, affecting universities • But no dramatic cancellations of licenses • Shock: 100% FECyT funding for WOK license coming to its end? • Coordination among Spanish consortia: • price caps (following ICOLC declaration on crisis) • fiscal issues (reduce/recover VAT for e-resources?) • we are saying to publishers: • we want to maintain content • obtain new customers instead of charging us more

  4. CBUC and the crisis • Catalonia: 7M population, 200.000 students, 8 public universities + 3 private universities, National Library • Current budget (to pay 2010 subscriptions) was obtained in December 2008 • Struggling with our library members to avoid “preventive cancellations” • No cancellations nor new subscriptions, just a few one-time payments (e-books) • Multiyear renewals for 2010, done: Springer and Nature (along with ordinary renewals: Elsevier, IEEE, Wiley, etc.) • Trying to get the lower increases possible (3%?)

  5. Feelings for 2010 (general) • Lack of precise instructions from Spanish government • 16%18% VAT for e-resources! • Consortia have been efficient and efective: don’t cut our budget! • Information is essential in universities • We have a lot more content than we had before • We’ve restrained price caps • We’ll realize the real crisis impact later this year (will we be ready to react?)

  6. Feelings for 2010 (CBUC) • Our licensing budget comes mainly from universities: • aprox. 80% universities (but suffering high deficit!) • aprox. 20% government (lower next year?) • If government cuts its share of our budget, • will universities be able to increase theirs? • or will we have to start thinking of cancellations? • Multiyear deals to be negotiated for 2011: • Blackwell, OUP, RSC, Sage, ORO, …

  7. Thanks! Núria Comellas Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya ncomellas@cbuc.es www.cbuc.es

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