Library Data NEWS
Cancellation rate decreases but budget is much greater factor
A report by ACCUCOMS based on the company’s renewal campaigns for publishers reveals steady renewal rates and a slight decrease in cancellation rates between January 2007 and December 2011.
Renewals 2007-2011: Overview and Outlook covers over 30,000 renewal calls and more than 44,000 subscriptions worldwide. One of the main conclusions is that the overall worldwide renewal rate has been fairly stable at approximately 38 per cent, although the percentage of online-only renewals has increased over the past five years and accounted for 40 per cent of renewals in 2011.
The company found that the cancellation rate decreased to less than 40 per cent in 2010 and
2011. However, lack of budget now accounts for a much larger percentage of cancellations – approximately 40 per cent in 2010 and 2011 compared with 19 per cent in 2007.
Another trend identified is the increasing role of usage statistics in renewal decisions. According
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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Index reveals information weaknesses in publishing
Organisations in the sectors that rely most heavily on enterprise information are among the worst at enabling access to internal content and utilising it, according to the Industry Information Index, a new benchmarking study from Content Intelligence company Smartlogic and MindMetre Research.
Overall, only 38 per cent of
the organisations surveyed rated their sector as capable across four categories of effectiveness and the sector that performed the worst in the study was media and publishing, where only 30 per cent of respondents found this sector’s internal information efficiency to be satisfactory.
The study included more than 2,000 senior
managers from public sector organisations, non-profit groups and companies of all sizes in the US, UK, Germany and France. The index factored in four major criteria in benchmarking industries: enterprise search effectiveness; information categorisation effectiveness; fragmentation of information systems; and categorisation and search progress and investment.
Plug-ins enhance open-access academic publications
The Enhanced Journals…Made Easy project (EJME), which is funded by SURF, has designed a practical work process for publishers of open-access journals to enhance academic journals with the associated data files. The project involved the development of two plug-ins for Open Journal
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Systems (OJS), a system for managing and publishing journals. With these plug-ins, authors and editors who use OJS can add data files to articles, including the associated metadata. The data files are then available – without any extra action – for everyone involved in the editorial process,
including peer reviewers. When published, there are references to the datasets, both on the webpage and in a machine-readable file. It is also important that the editorial team can make it possible for the data to be automatically submitted to a reliable data repository on publication.
to the report, ‘our statistics clearly show that in 2007 less than 10 per cent of the cancellations could be attributed to lack of usage while in 2009 and 2010 low usage was put forward as the main reason of cancellation for 18 per cent of the subscriptions that were not renewed.’
Renewal Format News in Brief
Relais International partners with OCLC Relais International, which provides systems to support interlibrary loan and document delivery services, has signed an agreement with OCLC allowing mutual subscribers access to WorldCat data and OCLC services via the OCLC WorldShare Platform. Under this new partnership, Relais will use the WorldCat Search API so that library staff can search WorldCat from within Relais to retrieve holdings information. Relais will also use the WorldCat Resource Sharing API so that requests and updates can be sent to and received from the OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing service.
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AAUP announces copyright partnership Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has announced a referral partnership with the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). AAUP’s members can now protect copyrighted assets and earn revenue from online content using CCC’s RightsLink service at a discount.
eBooks on Demand now available in 30 libraries The eBooks on Demand (EOD) service, which enables digital copies from copyright-free books to be ordered, is now provided by 30 libraries in Europe. Recent libraries new to the scheme are: National Library of Sweden, Library Am Guisanplatz in Switzerland, the Central Library of Slovak Academy of Sciences and Salzburg University Library in Austria.
New Bloomsbury resources represented by Publishers
Communication Group Publishers Communication Group has taken on an exclusive sales, marketing and customer service role for Bloomsbury Publishing’s two newest ventures, the Churchill Archive and Drama Online.
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