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Pricing #1
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Environmental Scan of Pricing Models for Online Content

Prepared by Albert W. Darimont
OnDisC Project
November 2001
©OnDisC Alliance 2001


1. Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3. E-Business Models
4. E-resources in Today's Academic Libraries
5. Library E-business
6. E-journals
7. Subject Based Gateways
8. Content Aggregators
9. Non-profit, subsidized
10. Content Providers
11. Conclusion
12. References



References

Appendices
Appendix A - full payment schedules for aggregators

Table 1 - Early Canadiana Online Fee Schedule for Academic Institutions
(new membership fee = renewal fee * 1.25)
http://www.canadiana.org/eco/english/fees.html

FTE Students

New Membership (Can $)

Renewal

0 - 500

$645

$515

501 - 1,000

$970

$775

1,001 - 1,500

$1,930

$1,545

1,501 - 2,500

$3,220

$2,575

2,501 - 5,000

$4,505

$3,605

5,001 - 7,500

$6,440

$5,150

7,501 - 10,000

$8,370

$6,695

10,001 - 12,500

$12,230

$9,785

12,501 - 15,000

$16,095

$12,875

15,001 - 17,500

$19,310

$15,450

17,501 - 20,000

$21,245

$16,995

20,001 - 25,000

$23,175

$18,540

25,001 - 30,000

$25,105

$20,085

30,001 -

$27,040

$21,630


Table 2 - SCRAN Pricing Schedule for Higher Education Institutions who are JISC members.
Normal Annual Fees are approx. £2000/year
http://www.scran.ac.uk/licences/tertiary/

Academic Year
Large HEI
Medium HEI
Small HEI

2000

£150

£100

£50

2001

£300

£200

£100

2002

£450

£300

£150

2003

£600

£400

£200

2004

£600

£400

£200

Total Payable

£2100

£1400

£750

 
Table 3 -Academic Institutions Prices for AMICO
RLG = Research Libraries Group
http://www.rlg.org/amico/amicorates.html


Undergraduates Enrolled
Standard Price US $
RLG Price

Under 2,000

$2,000

$1,900

2,000 - 8000

$4,000

$3,800

8,001 -15,000

$6,000

$5,700

15,001 - 25,000

$7,000

$6,650

25,001 or more

$10,000

$9,500

 
Table 4 - Pricing Schedule for JSTOR - Arts and Sciences Collection I
(117 journal titles in 15 academic fields)
http://www.jstor.org/about/ASI.pricing.html
(see http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/Classification/ for Classification Scheme)


Size of Academic Institution
ACF US $
(archive capital fee)
AAF (annual access fee)
Very Large (Carnegie Research I)

$45,000

$8,500

Large
(Carnegie Research II or Doctoral I)

$35,000

$6,500

Medium
(Doctoral II or Masters I above 2,500 FTE)

$25,000

$4,000

Small
(Doctoral II or Masters I less than 2,500 FTE) or (Masters II or Bachelor I above 1,000 FTE)

$20,000

$3,000

Very Small
(Masters II or Bachelor I below 1,000 FTE) or Bachelor II

$10,000

$2,000


Appendix B - list of web sitesContent Aggregators

Organization/Website Features Pricing Information
American Memory
Part of the National Digital Library Program
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
More than 90 collections of documents, images, sounds, moving pictures overnment and private funding.
AMICO
Art Museum Image Consortium
http://www.amico.org/
Art images and supporting text Annual subscription up to $10,000/year, Members pay fees
AMOL
Australian Museums Online
http://www.amol.org.au/
Gateway to Australia's Museum community, Professional meta-center Government funded
Canada's Digital Collections
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/


Various themed collections Government funded.
CHIN
Canadian Heritage Information Network
http://www.chin.gc.ca/
Gateway to Canada's Museum community, Professional meta-center Subscription fee of up to CAN $975 for up to 15 simultaneous users
Colorada's Digitization Projects
http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org
/cdp.html
Various document and image collections Government and private funding
Digital Library of Canada
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/index-e.html
Various collections of music, images and documents Government funded.
ECO
http://www.canadiana.org/eco/englishl
Early Canadiana Online
Digitized images of early Canadian documents (over 500,000 images) Annual subscription of up to CAN $21,630 New membership fee = 0.25 of annual subscription fee
JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/
Images of journal back issues One time Capital Archive Fee up to $20,000, Annual Archive Fee, up to $8,000/year
SCRAN
Scottish Cultural Resource Access Network
http://www.scran.ac.uk/homepage/
Text, Images, Audio, Video Normal annual subscription up to £2000/year, (US $3,000)
SunSITE
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

Sun Software, Information and Technology Exchange
Gateway to image collections, other content aggregators Government and private funding.
VADS
Visual Arts Data Service
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/
Gateway to Australia's Museum community, Professional meta-center Government funded
 
Subject Based Gateways 

Name/URL Type Funding
ADAM
Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
http://www.adam.ac.uk/
Graphic Arts site Publicly funded
AHDS
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS)
http://ahds.ac.uk/
General Arts site Publicly funded
BIBL
Bulletin Board for Libraries
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
General subject site Publicly funded
MERLOT
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-line Teaching
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
General educational site Publicly funded
Netfirst
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/netfirst.htm
General subject site Available to subscribers of OCLC, a bibliographic utility
 
Content Providers 

Company/Organization Features Pricing Model Overview
8notes.com
http://www.8notes.com/
Free downloadable pdf sheet music, midi files, sibelius Scorch files, Claim = 2 M banner ads/month @$8 / 1,000 views (468x50 ad); <$4 / 1,000 views (125x125 ad)
AP/World Wide Photos
http://www.apwideworld.com/
Large collection of news/culture photos for various uses TBD waiting for reply
Brainpop
http://www.brainpop.com/
Educational animated shorts and videos Revenue comes from advertising, corporate sponsorship and subscriptions (US $50 home schools & families, $100 for schools)
Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/
Multimedia web version of encyclopedia Premier service - $50/year (no ads, full articles, audio, video etc.)
Classical Archives
http://www.classicalarchives.com
Archive of 14,000 + classical midi files Free, but subscriptions (e.g. $25/year allow greater access to midi files, and higher quality mp3 files)
Digital Music Library
http://dml.indiana.edu/


Research test bed No pricing information yet
DigitalCurriculum
AIMS Media
http://www.aimsmultimedia.com
Teaching modules including streaming video Subscriptions start at US $975/year per school. Full access school, library, home with subscription
DNA From the Beginning
http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/
A multimedia primer, includes animation, images, text, and video interviews Funded by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Freecode
http://www.freecode.com/index/
Software code and applets Free, with advertising and corporate sponsorship
How Stuff Works
http://ww