CDL: ALA, ALCTS Discussion, The eJournal Pricing Model Explosion

From: w.wakeling_at_neu.edu

ALCTS Discussion Sat, June 24th: The eJournal Pricing Model Explosion:
Three Perspectives

If you're attending the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans and 
interested
in the rapid proliferation of pricing models for ejournals, packages and
aggregations, please join our discussion group. Ever evolving pricing
models
offer benefits and challenges but may produce unintended consequences.
Panelists representing a commercial publisher, a non-profit aggregator and
an academic library will address this theme, leaving ample time for
audience
participation.

Our panelists are:
.            Beth R. Bernhardt, Electronic Journals and Document 
Delivery Librarian, University of North Carolina at Greensboro\

.            Christopher M. McKenzie, Vice President of Sales, North 
and South America, Wiley InterScience, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

.            Susan Skomal, PhD, Executive Director, BioOne


Topics will cover:

Publishers:
.            What does a publisher consider in selecting a pricing model?
.            What data do you use in the modeling process?
.            When is it useful to have multiple pricing models?
.            Are consortial based models essential?
.            Have you considered methods for incorporating usage into
pricing?
.            What are the potential challenges and advantages of various
models?
.            What trends do you predict in the evolution of pricing 
models?

Librarians:
.            What pricing models are attractive to a librarian?
.            How does the size and type of library you represent change
your
              response?
.            What new developments in pricing models can you anticipate?
.            How do multiple pricing models affect consortial purchases?
.            Can you provide examples of unintended consequences?

This meeting of the ALCTS SS Journal Costs in Academic Libraries 
Discussion
Group takes place Saturday, June 24th from 4-6 pm in the Morial Convention
Center, Rooms 244-245.  Please come to learn and contribute!

For more information, please contact

Clint Chamberlain
Vice-Chair, ALCTS SS Journal Costs in Academic Libraries Discussion Group
Assistant Professor, E-Access/Serials Librarian
Trinity University, Elizabeth Huth Coates Library
One Trinity Place
San Antonio, Texas  78212-7200
Office: (210) 999-7613
Fax: (210) 999-8182
Clinton.Chamberlain_at_trinity.edu