1. The ALPSP Learned Journals
Collection: win-win for
publishers and libraries
Sally Morris
2. What is ALPSP?
l The international trade association for
not-for-profit publishers
l 288 members in 31 countries
l What we do:
• Representation
• Collaboration
• Education
• Information
• Good Practice
l www.alpsp.org
3. What’s the problem?
l E-publishing makes possible innovative
licensing approaches
• Access for more people
• Access to more content
• Benefits for users
l But these only work for large publishers
• Small publishers are getting squeezed out
• Society publishers particularly affected
4. The search for a solution
l Member consultations – 2001/2
l Librarian consultations – 2001/2
l Discussions with similar projects - 2002
l Consultancy project (John Cox
Associates) – end 2002
l Tendering process – selected Swets
Information Services – early 2003
l Steering Committee
5. What we came up with – the ALPSP
Learned Journals Collection
l Swets provides portal, not platform
l 247 journals from 25 publishers
l Subsets also available:
• Life & medical science – 89 journals
• Science & technology – 62 journals
• Arts, humanities & social science –
131 journals
l www.alpsp-collection.org
6. How it works
l Single standard licence
l 3-year licence
• 5% annual price cap
l Existing revenue protected
l 2 pricing models
• Print + Electronic
• Electronic Only
l Deeply Discounted Print
7. How the money is shared out
l Swets
• Commission
l Publishers
• No up-front costs
• Previous subscription value shared as before
• Collection content fee shared in proportion to
publishers’ prices
l ALPSP
• Covered set-up costs, takes no revenue
l Governed by Steering Committee
8. Results to date
l 2004-6 Collection finalised August 2003
l Selling commenced September 2003
l Swets have sold to date
• 30 licences (more in pipeline)
• 315 free trials
l Publishers’ revenue up by 60%
9. Join us for 2005-7!
l Minor improvements to publisher and
customer licences
l 14 new publishers have already signed up
l 59 more are considering signing
l Total collection = 351 journals so far
l More focused subsets planned
l Contact info@alpsp-collection.org now!
