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Collection Management, 35:314, 2010 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 0146-2679 print / 1545-2549 online DOI: 10.1080/01462670903445137
Models for providing content to library users change rapidlylike almost every other aspect of our work as librarians and especially as collection managers. In this issues Whats Next for Collection Management and Managers? Id like to begin by briey proposing a model for obtaining electronic journal content that builds on some recent attempts by several libraries to take back control of content acquisition. More often than not, collection managers are at the mercy of the models that vendors and publishers foist upon us, so why not explore paths that give us alternative ways of acquiring content? Most of this column will be devoted to explicating the Google Book Settlement. Although library participation in the creation of the actual settlement is not apparent, several libraries were highly involved in the Google Library Project that resulted in the lawsuit and thus the Google Book Settlement. The settlement proposes a controversial model for delivering access to books that are copyrighted but out of print, and it is important to understand what the implications are for libraries and collection managers.
Address correspondence to Faye A. Chadwell, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Content Management, Oregon State University Libraries, 121 The Valley Library, Corvallis, OR 97331-4501. E-mail: faye.chadwell@oregonstate.edu 3
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Choice option for immediate open access. Final published articles can also be deposited in California Digital Librarys eScholarship Repository (California Digital Library 2009). As we began to review and renew (and once again cancel) journal subscriptions, I have also been thinking about how inadequate the current usage statistics are for most electronic journal publishers. Specically, my colleagues in Oregon, with whom Oregon State University collaborates, were bemoaning the fact that we could not see article-level statistics. Without this kind of information, we believed we were not as well-prepared as we could be to determine what journals were worth renewing and what journals could be cancelled. Our questions included the following: Just how many unique articles were our users downloading from our subscriptions every year? Was it one signicant article that was being downloaded over and over again? Or were several articles published over multiple years generating the usage statistics? Thinking about these events and issues, I realized that there might be a way to apply a patron-driven acquisitions model to the way we buy journal content. The next time we met with the sales representative of a large STM publisher, I proposed a future pilot deal and asked the representative to take these parameters back to his bosses as the basis of the deal: Rather than subscribe to the publishers titles, we sought the right to purchase a journal article after one of our users downloads it from the publishers site. Instead of obtaining the right to own the full issue of the journal in perpetuity, we wanted to buy or own the articles that our users downloaded and add these permanently to our digital collections. Other stipulations that we would want included in this deal follow: Appropriate article metadata to accompany articles we purchased The ability to loan articles via the most up-to-date interlibrary mechanisms (i.e., Ariel) The authority to allow walk-in users to access the article content The agreement that we only begin purchasing articles that we were not part of subscriptions for which we had already paid The ability to use a system, perhaps LOCKSS (lots of copies keep stuff safe), to collect and preserve our purchased content for perpetuity The right to create a preservation copy of articles for dark archiving At least two stipulations we would be likely to make to the publisher would include securing remote access only to authorized users and providing agreed-upon branding to identify the journal publishers content. Obviously we would need to work on negotiating a price for each article that we wanted
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to purchase in perpetuity. We would also want to emulate both California Digital Library and Max Planck and discuss how we could purchase our afliated authors works for inclusion in our institutional repository. Likewise, we would have to work out the necessary workows with the publisher so that we could capture and be invoiced for the articles our users requested. Finally, we would have to plan the storage and preservation of the content and plan to be able to deliver the content as part of any discovery services we implemented. My university librarian asked me what incentive the publisher would have to agree to such a model. At rst I didnt have a response, other than to say, Absolutely none. But upon further reection, I think it offers the publisher another strategy for selling its journal content to libraries like my own that still need the content that commercial publishers sell but cannot afford to subscribe to all the journals they market. The sales representative asked me whether our scholars would object to losing access to journal subscriptions because of the impact on promotion and tenure. I remembered what Salvatore Mele said about authors and high energy physics (HEP) journals at the SCOAP3 meeting held at Berkeley. He acknowledged that the HEP community needed high-quality journals, as the interface with ofcialdom (Mele 2008). I told the sales representative virtually the same thing, pointing out that our users needed access to articles for research and teaching. I stressed that our mission as a library was to provide access to the content and suggested that just because we didnt subscribe to a journal didnt detract from its reputation as a worthwhile, peer-reviewed publication that authors might seek as a place for publishing. Plus, like so many libraries, we have foregone subscription-based access to hundreds of journals in the last decade or two because of the serials ination crisis. Our major concern when cancelling was more about the loss of access to future research than it was about the existence of what is increasingly becoming an outmoded model for scholarly publishing: the journal. A lot has been written about the future of journals. Ahmed Hindawi, the CEO for Hindawi, an open access publisher, describes several possible futures for the disaggregation of journals, but one of his futures relates closely to the model I propose:
The third possible future is a future in which journals are still under the toll access model but in which authors stopped caring about the journal as a brand. This is a future in which authors know that their articles are going to be evaluated without reference to the particular journal in which they were published. Authors will publish in journals that provide them with fast and professional peer review, high production services, wide distribution, online discoverability, etc. Authors will be much more demanding and publishers will have to work much harder to keep attracting authors (Hindawi 2009).
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Does this model support toll-based access to content? Yes, it does, at least until we are farther along the open access highway. Does the model I propose mean the death of journals as we know them? Perhaps it does, but it doesnt mean the death of scholarship.
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expensive court battle. In October 2008, Google, the AAP, and the Authors Guild unveiled what was deemed the Google Book Settlement. The criticism as well as support began to come in from all sides. In all, there were 400 briefs led either for or against the settlement (Vascellaro 2009). Some of the supporters should surprise no one. They include the library partners, the American Association of People with Disabilities, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and the National Federation of the Blind. Critics included Google competitors like Amazon.com, Open Book Alliance, the Internet Alliance, Microsoft, Yahoo, and ProQuest, to name a few. Library associations voicing concerns or reservations about the settlement include the American Library Association, the Special Library Association, the Association for Research Libraries, and the Association for College and Research Libraries. Other organizations that opposed the settlement were the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the National Writers Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the William Morris Agency. In April 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice stepped in to begin determining among other things whether the settlement violated any antitrust laws. On September 18, 2009, the Justice Department led its concerns, including information from the U.S. Copyright Ofce, with the New York court established to approve the settlement. The department made three arguments (Butler 2009) against the settlement: It does not adequately represent the members of the class, authors and publishers, with respect to the broad, open-ended rights that the original settlement would grant to Google. It conicts with the tenets of copyright law. It raises serious antitrust concerns. In response to many objections raised, Google, the AAP, and the Authors Guild asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to change the previously scheduled October hearing for approving or disapproving the settlement to a later date.
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millions of digital books available on the Web, with payments to authors and publishers for their use. The settlement is designed to cover the costs of earlier scanning efforts and legal fees and propose a way to pay for future use. Revenue is to come from selling ads and from user fees and institutional subscriptions. Rights holders, whether authors or publishers, would receive 63% of the revenue generated from sales, while Google takes home 37%. Google would also establish a Book Rights Registry to oversee the registration of rights holders and to coordinate payment to rights holders when their content was used. Google purports that they are spending $34.5 million to establish the registry (Trachtenberg and Vascellaro 2008). For those rights holders that make claims, there are multiple options to consider that the Google Book Settlement site outlines extensively. Among these options is one seeking to have Google remove a rights holders books from the database at any time. For many critics, the titles really at issue are those that are in copyright but out of print. The Google Book Settlement distinguishes these as titles, sometimes called orphan works, that are not commercially available because they are out of print. According to Pam Samuelson, University of California at Berkeley professor of law and information, the proposed [Google] Book Search settlement agreement solves the orphan works problem for booksat least for Google (Samuelson 2009). Why? The settlement would allow Google to apply all of its projected display uses to copyrighted, out of print titles unless the rights holder for a given title les a claim form to exclude the book from one, some, or all of the display uses. Public libraries and libraries at not-for-prot higher education institutions will have access for users to view content from the books via at least one computer terminal. To broaden that access and extend authorized uses, libraries would be assessed a subscription fee and individual consumers would have to pay according to a pricing algorithm established by Google or by a specied price that a rights holder might determine. Depending on the type of access provided or purchased, users would benet from the following display uses: Access uses include viewing and annotating the entire book and printing and copying and pasting portions of the book, subject to page number limitations. The uses include institutional subscriptions, consumer purchase of online access, and public access at libraries and elsewhere. Preview uses allow a searcher to view up to 20% of a book before making a purchase decision, but will not allow a searcher to copy and paste, annotate, or print any pages from the book. Preview uses are designed to serve as a marketing tool to sell the book. Snippet displays allow a search to view three or four lines of text from a book, with up to three snippet uses per user for the book.
Display of bibliographic pages means that users can see the books title page, copyright page, table of contents, and index (Google 2008, Google Book Settlement, FAQs).
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content in perpetuity, although the fees are not insubstantial in some cases. In his report to Association of Research Libraries directors, copyright scholar Kenneth Crews said that perhaps the scariest thing about this service is not knowing what the price will be for different types of institutions. This lack of certainty could not come at a worse time as we all continue to struggle with the economic downturn (Crews 2009). In comments led in May 2009, three major American library associations voiced support for how the institutional subscription service enabled by the settlement could evolve into an essential research facility (Davis et al. 2009, 3). At the same time, they voiced concern that in the absence of meaningful competition, the registry and Google could set the price of the subscription at a prot-maximizing point beyond the reach of many libraries (Davis et al. 2009, 3). None of us want to condone or endure the same kind of prot maximization we have suffered at the hands of many commercial journal publishers, especially since libraries were such active participants in creating what promises to be a transformational digital collection. In addition to the possible free or fee-based use scenarios the settlement proposes, the settlement creates four categories for Google library partners. Fully participating libraries are libraries that allow Google to digitize books in their collections, and in return Google provides the library with a digital copy of the scanned books. Fully participating libraries must adhere to a proscribed list of acceptable uses of the digital copies they receive. For example, they can use their digital copy to make a replacement copy if the original print copy of a book becomes lost or damaged. The next category is cooperating libraries. These libraries provide digitized content to Google; they just dont receive a digital copy. As a result, they also dont share the same responsibilities as fully participating libraries in regard to securing the use of digitized copies. The third group of libraries is the public domain group. A library in this group agrees to only provide public domain works for digitization. Like the cooperating libraries, the public domain libraries dont receive a digital copy of what has been digitized for them. The nal category is other libraries that may agree to provide books but dont become members of the three prior categories. Regardless of whether a library becomes a fully participating or cooperating library is subject to approval. There may also be a chance that both fully participating and cooperating participants will be able to negotiate a discount on the institutional subscription service (American Association of Publishers 2008). Obviously, there are advantages to being a fully participating library. You receive digital copies of books from your own collection, but also you have the right to receive digital copies of titles in your collection that Google digitized for another library. Whether you are eligible to receive these copies depends on how much of your collection Google digitizes. According to the settlement, a fully participating library may receive an LDC (library digital copy) of all of the books in its collection only if, for a collection
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of 900,000 books or more, Google digitizes more than 300,000 books from that fully participating librarys collection or, for a collection of fewer than 900,000 books, Google digitizes more than 30% of the books from that fully participating librarys collection (American Association of Publishers 2008). If receiving digital copies is an incentive for being a fully participating library, collection managers at an approved fully participating library recognize, as the saying goes, that with great power comes great responsibility. By becoming a fully participating library, a library is obligating itself to follow fairly detailed use guidelines related to managing the digital copies a library receives and to be held to somewhat onerous security obligations. The settlement covers creating and implementing a security plan and then complying with security standards outlined in a 20-page appendix to the main settlement document. And because there are also restrictions on what fully participating libraries can do with their digital copies (no interlibrary loan, no use in reserve or course management systems), there might be a greater incentive to become a cooperating library with fewer responsibilities. Though not alone, three American library associations also communicated their apprehension related to two fundamental issues for collection managers: censorship and privacy. First, these groups explored how the Google Book Service as outlined in the settlement would handle exclusions of certain materials that might affect intellectual freedom rights of users. The associations would specically like Google to consider a means for divulging what titles were excluded and the reasons for the exclusion. Another primary concern for the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries has to do with how the settlement failed to address user privacy; in particular, the library groups were concerned with how Google might address government inquiries on what a specic user is reading online and asked for the development of a privacy policy (Davis et al. 2009). Because of all the talk about data curation and data mashups, some collection managers might also be interested in whether libraries as subscribers will be able to build services on top of the Google Book Services or exploit the data in some way to the benet of their users. It is clear that fully participating libraries will be able develop or obtain and may deploy nding tools that allow its users to identify pertinent books within its LDC or generate information from its LDC to build or deploy nding aids or tools, although these aids are subject to some use restrictions in regard to how much (if any) content can actually be displayed from the library. The Google Book Settlement also refers to the establishment of a Research Corpus. The Research Corpus is a set of all LDCs of books made in connection with the Google Library Project (American Association of Publishers 2008). Host sites will support and maintain the Research Corpus so that qualied users can engage in specic types of research involving computational
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analysis, linguistic analysis, and the development of new searching and indexing techniques (American Association of Publishers 2008). I was not able to nd any information about library subscribers being able to use the data similarly to the ways that fully participating libraries will be. This is a somewhat disappointing development though the Google Book Search application programming interface (API) has already been available for library developers to use since March 2008 (Google 2008, Preview books anywhere). Google is working with other groups like OCLC to build and/or improve library services. In 2008, Google and OCLC agreed to exchange data so that users of Google Book Search could easily identify library holdings in WorldCat. Likewise, Google released its API so that users of WorldCat could get a look at digitized books in the Google Book Search via the preview feature of WorldCat (OCLC 2008). Incidentally, other federated search products and/or vendors with discovery services are also making use of the Google API for book searches, including Ex Libris and Serials Solutions (Quint 2009). And for those users who still desire holding a print copy in their hands, collection managers will be interested to know that Google started working with on-demand books in mid-September 2008 to deliver printed copies of public domain books from its Book Search Service via the Espresso Book Machine (Google 2009, Books digitized).
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here, providing further evidence of just how complex the settlement and the issues are. Because of the complexities, it is incumbent on collection managers to become familiar with the details and the issues. We need to stay aware since the settlement, when approved, will in all likelihood be different in its nal form than what was spelled out in October 2008.
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