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3rd Southern European Libraries Link (SELL) Meeting 
Cappadocia, June 8 2003 

Paola Gargiulo 

Consortia in Italy: Country Report

 
 
 
 
 

News from Italian consortia 
 

Increase in consortia partecipation Almost all universities (75) now purchase e-journals and expensive A&I databases through consortia  
E-only based contracts are slowly making their way Cultural resistance Lack of coordination in journal subscriptions in large universities Need for more centralization; Procurement procedure and the Italian law VAT issue ACNP- Periodicals Union catalogue includes link to e-journals Institutional repositories have been set up by single universities and by one consortia Three separate archives: preprint; teaching material; miscelleanous (grey literature) sw used eprints from University of Southampton  
New contracts  
Usage statistics and usability studies  
Current issues

 

 
 
 
 
 

Consortial organizations 
 

CIBER- Coordinamento Interuniversitario Basi dati e Editoria in Rete (25 universities)

Members are:  CASPUR universities (6) + 19 Central-Southern Italian universities Voluntary basis; no legal status,it is administratevely and technically supported by CASPUR. CIBER is about to change its status into a moreformal organization. Negotiations are handled by the coordinator and the secretariat  and by ad hoc negotiating committees  

CILEA 00Supercomputing Applications Consortia (11 members + various research institutions

    Members are: 11 universities from the Northwest of Italy. CILEA acts on behalf of these universities and the same time as a service provider to other Italian universities or research centres which have not joined either CIBER or CIPE 

CIPE 00Coordinamento Italiano Periodici Elettronici (12 universities)

It00 a group of universities mainly  from Central and Northern East part of Italy. No legal status, the group is well organized, each university is formally committed to the group. The university of Padua acts as an official representative, signs contracts ecc. The contract negotiations are handled by a board (university rapresentatives + consultant)  

SBBL 00a regional based consortia of medical schools and hospitals in Lombardy

 
 
 
 
 

Interconsortial contracts 
 

ACS 00merican Chemical Society (32 institutions) Contract signed by CIBER, CIPE 2001; 2002 00003 (together with CILEA) Print + e-fee + archive and new titles; few universities went e-only Local loading of metadata since 2002  
Blackwell Publishing (28 institutions) Contract signed by CIBER, CIPE 2001; 2002; 2003 (on a year basis) Based on FTE ; 3  different bandlings Print + e fee Local loading of metadata since 1999  
ELSEVIER  Science (35 institutions) Contract is about to be signed by CIBER and CIPE Print + e or e-only; freedom, UTL and subject collection Local loading of metadata and full text since 1995 IOP (24  institutions) Contract signed by CIBER, CILEA 5 year contract (2002-2006) Print + e- fee + archive; local loading of metadata and full text since 1991  
 
 
 
 

Interconsortial contracts 
 
 

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS (63 universities and research centres) Contract signed CILEA, CIBER, CIPE 5 year contract (2001- 2005) Print + e fee Local loading : metadata + full text since 1996-97  
NATURE GNP (21 institutions) Contract signed by CILEA for CILEA and CIBER 2 year contract 2003-2004 Based on FTE (students, doctoral students, researchers and professors in sciences with the exclusion of Mathematics and Computer Science) E-only contract  
WILEY  (about to finalize) Contract negotiated by CILEA and CIBER 5 year contract Base price 2002 holdings  
 
 
 
 

Interconsortial contracts 
 
 

WEB OF SCIENCE (24 institutions)

Contract signed by CIBER and CIPE 2001-2003  

JCR 00 Journal of Citations Reports (24 institutions)

Contract signed by CIBER and CIPE 2001-2003  

UlrichsWeb (12 institutions)

 separate contract for CIBER and CILEA (same conditions)  
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

CIBER contracts 
 
 

CSA- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (10 institutions)  
Econlit   (7 institutions)  
PCI- WEB (7 institutions)  
Other contracts with A&I providers are signed for a very limited number of members (National Bibliographies, specific disciplinary databases etc)  
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

CIBER 

Unirc 

Unina2 

Unimol 

uniroma2 

Unich

 
 
 
 
 

Usage statistics and users surveys at CIBER 
 

Local installations of ScienceServer 5.1 Elsevier, Kluwer and IOP journals are loaded full text, other publishers are partially loaded (metadata) with a link to full text 3130 e-journals all together  
Advantages of local loading Perpetual access possibility to generate statistics on different aspects  
Availabilty of specific  statistics sw and expertise within the consortia  
 
Statistics production on downloads (abstracts, full text, by subscribed and unsubscribed title, by category) on users behaviour: modes of searching (browsing, searching etc), on how they access the database,  search time length, most searched phrases etc; studies on IF and downloads, future studies on citations  
Users surveys:  recent submission of online and onsite questionaires on the e-journal service. Results of this research will be presented in Finland early September. First hand results: heavy users are researchers in their mid-forties, supporters of e-only,  insufficient search expertise  
 
 
 
 

Issues 
 

Better integrated access and navigation Portals/Information Gateways, Meta search engine + linking technologies Cilea bought Metalib and SFX Few single universities bought Metalib and SFX CIBER is working on it. A metasearch engine has been devoloped by the University of Rome 00a Sapienza00and is presently under test  
New contract model with publishers consortia as a one entity no print/e holdings check base price determined on new criteria: usage statistics, corrected FTE ecc. big deal is not alwasy the right choice  
User education and usabilty studies  
Improvement of internal organization Creation of evaluation group by subject areas (CIBER) Identifying technical contacts (data collectors) in each university (CIBER) Creation of web pages on scholarly publishing issues for librarians Undergoing project to create a database containing info of interest to consortia members (text of contract, brief description of contract terms, contact person, web statistics site, Iplist, list of holdings) it will be updated on line by technical contacts (CIBER)  
 
 
 
 

Web Sites 
 
 

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