I haven't seen anyone take this and respond. I feel like I'm responding somewhat regularly to this question (it's been recently discussed on ERIL-L and SERIALST, e.g.), so I apologize if it seems like I'm beating the drum repeatedly.
A colleague of mine and I put together a PowerPoint presentation on our experiences with canceling Big Deal packages in favor of PPV and limited individual subscriptions with Elsevier, Sage, and Wiley. I wasn't here when the initial decision and implementation were done in 2010/2011 but have certainly been heavily involved in the aftermath, and in broader questions about PPV vs. subscription. The presentation is on SlideShare at http://www.slideshare.net/murphymoose/lower-costs-greater-access
I'll also be talking about our experience at the upcoming Charleston Conference in November.
We think this approach has been greatly to our benefit. The PowerPoint references information through FY13 but I can say that adding in FY14, we saw much the same trend continuing as we predicted.
Our administration (campus-wide) and faculty are highly supportive of what we've done. We've been able to add one-time backfile purchases, ebook packages, and start subscriptions to newly available e-resources that we'd never have been able to do before. I wouldn't describe this as a perpetual gravy train, but it has certainly given us more budget flexibility while at the same time, greatly increased the availability of resources for our users.
We haven't overreached ourselves yet, almost four years later, but we are watching our PPV use closely all the time. We deliberately chose, e.g., to not restrict or put up any visible hurdles to our users' access. We feel they don't have to know the how of access (that is, how it is paid for) to a particular article, just as they wouldn't if we provided access via a subscription. It's feasible that we may have to cut back at some point, but we haven't arrive there yet.
Steve
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Assistant Professor of Library Science
Electronic Resources and Serials
Wheaton College (IL)
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Subject: [ACQNET-L] pay-per-view
Has anyone implemented pay-per-view for journal articles or ebooks? I'd be keen to hear your success story, or the reasons why it didn't work out.
Feel free to contact me off list.
Thanks,
Sarah Cook,Administrative Coordinator, Library | Royal Roads University
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