Delivery Statistics at Virginia Tech for SAE Technical Papers

Delivery Statistics at Virginia Tech for SAE Technical Papers Six month time period # papers requested # unique titles % unique titles Projected use for 2007-2008 Subscribed Online Access 2005 - 2006 11/1/2005 – 4/30/2006 825 616 75% 1650 On-Demand Online Access 2006 - 2007 11/1/2006 – 4/30/2007 131 125 95% 262 Difference 694 491 20% 1388 Subscribed online access was immediate, unmediated access On-demand access required submission of online form, after which a paper was delivered to desktop Use of SAE Technical Papers dropped by over 80% after changing to mediated on-demand online access in 2006 – 2007 Reduction of duplicate papers is significant with on-demand delivery Projected cost of repeat papers under Subscribed Online Access would be $3,686 under new DRM Free access produces duplicate purchases When a “cost” (in this case, filling out an online form) is instituted duplicates decrease Cost Projections at Virginia Tech for SAE Technical Papers with DRM Implemented Projected one year Cost / paper Projected cost / year Subscribed Online Access 1650 $8.82 $14,553.00 CD-ROM Purchase Not Applicable Not Applicable $6,000.00 On-Demand Online Access 262 Currently $11.20 $2,934.40 Based on previous use, subscribed online access was projected to be by far the most expensive Projected cost for the subscribed online access is a conservative estimate because it was based on a past situation where patrons could download and save pdfs to their computer Under the new DRM saving is not possible, and repeat views could lead to significantly higher costs VT eliminated subscribed online access from consideration because of high cost and restrictive DRM Of the CD-ROM and On-Demand options, the On-Demand option had clear advantages: CD – ROM Pros Fixed Cost Savable PDFs Cons Single location access Up to one year lag Recent not available No desktop delivery High cost for backfiles Online On - Demand Pros Cons Desktop delivery Cost not fixed Savable PDFs Recent available Low upfront costs Results From Survey of Engineering Librarians US News Rank Grad 7 10 11 12 13 14 14 16 16 18 19 19 21 21 23 23 23 26 26 26 29 30 30 30 33 34 34 Top 35 Grad Programs as Ranked by US News & World Report - Then Alphabetical University DL online pre DRM DL online post DRM DL CD pre DRM MIT Yes No No Stanford No No No Berkeley Yes No No Georgia Tech No No No UIUC Yes No No Carnegie Mellon No No No Caltech No No No U Southern Calif No No No U Michigan Yes No No Cornell No No No U Texas - Austin Yes No No Purdue Yes No No UCSD Yes No No Texas A&M No No No U Wisc - Madison Yes No No UC Los Angeles Yes No No U Maryland No No Yes Princeton No No No Columbia University No No No UC Santa Barbara No No No Penn State No No Yes Northwestern No No No U Minnesota Yes No No U Washington No No No Harvard No No No Ohio State Yes Yes No Johns Hopkins No No No U Florida No No No U Pennsylvania No No No Rice No No No Duke No No No U Rochester No No No Virginia Tech Yes No No NC State No No No UC Davis Yes No No Anonymous (US) No No No Anonymous (US) No No No Anonymous (US) No No No Anonymous (US) Yes Yes Yes Anonymous (US) Yes Yes No Arizona No No No Bucknell No No No Colorado Sch Mines No No No Colorado St No No No Coventry U (UK) Yes Yes No ÉTS, Montreal CA No No Selected IL Inst Tech Yes No No IUPUI Yes No No Kansas St No No No Lawrence Tech U Yes Yes No Lehigh No No No Loughborough U (UK) No No Yes Michigan State No No Yes Michigan Tech No No No Miss State No No No Notre Dame Yes No No Oregon St No No No Queen's Univ (CA) Yes No No Stony Brook No No No Syracuse No No Yes U Alberta (CA) Yes Yes No U Bradford (UK) Yes No No U Brit Col (CA) Yes No No U Colorado Boulder No No No U Huddersfield (UK) Yes No No U Kansas No No Yes U Leeds UK) Yes No No U Maine No No No U Missouri Columbia No No No U New Mexico No No No U Virginia No No Yes UMass Dartmouth No No No Wayne State Yes Yes No WPI No No No All responded from the top ranked 35 Of top 35, 13 had SAE DL, but only renewed Of total 74 responding, 27 had SAE DL and renewed DL CD post DRM Yes No Some No No No No No Yes No No Yes No No Yes Perhaps Yes No No No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No Yes Yes No No No No No No Yes No No No No No Yes Yes No No No Yes No No No ... IL Inst Tech Yes No No IUPUI Yes No No Kansas St No No No Lawrence Tech U Yes Yes No Lehigh No No No Loughborough U (UK) No No Yes Michigan State No No Yes Michigan Tech No No No Miss State No... No No No U Pennsylvania No No No Rice No No No Duke No No No U Rochester No No No Virginia Tech Yes No No NC State No No No UC Davis Yes No No Anonymous (US) No No No Anonymous (US) No No No Anonymous... online post DRM DL CD pre DRM MIT Yes No No Stanford No No No Berkeley Yes No No Georgia Tech No No No UIUC Yes No No Carnegie Mellon No No No Caltech No No No U Southern Calif No No No U Michigan