Collection Development Working Group Meeting
29 July 2003
Munich

Minutes

Jim Niessen, Rutgers University and Coordinator, Collection Development
Working Group: German Access to Related Databases

The Collection Development Working Group seeks to provide access for our
users to valuable German resources. The first important precedent for
what we will discuss today is the consortial German Resources Project
access to the xipolis database, i.e. a benefit to North American libraries.

Mutual benefit is an emerging core idea of the GRP. We learned the
lesson from the GRP meeting generously hosted by Dr. Mittler in his
library in Gšttingen in 1999 to seek dialog with our partners and
initiatives with benefits to both German and North American users.
DigiZeitschriften, in conjunction with ProQuest, may be such a case.

Now, a summary of GRPÕs involvement with ProQuest. ProQuest approached
us a year ago to advise them on a) which of the 250 German journals
indexed in PCI to which full text should be added and b) which other
German titles might be added for purposes of indexing. ProQuest
provided us with a list of these titles, which I can share with anyone
interested.

Then at my request DigiZeitschriften shared with me a list of their 58
titles. I correlated the ProQuest and DZ lists and found 28 of the 58
DZ titles are indexed in PCI. In consultation with CDWG I recommended
to ProQuest that it also index as many of the 32 other titles as fit
their profile. In response, they informed me that they will add
indexing for 19 of these titles.

CDWG also came up with a list of 30 titles from the 250 already indexed
by PCI that it recommended to ProQuest for the addition of full text.
This list is also available to anyone who wants it.

Here are possible future areas for our collaboration:

a) CDWG can suggest titles for inclusion in DZ
b) CDWG is of course interested in access to DZ for its libraries
c) PCI should link to DZ titles as it does to JSTOR. To this end,
ProQuest and DZ might share bibliographic files.
d) ProQuest is encouraged to consider preferential pricing for GRP
members and DZ partners.

Elmar Mittler, NiedersŠchsische Staats- und UniversitŠtsbibliothek
Gšttingen and President of DigiZeitschriften: ÒDigiZeitschriftenÓ
http://www.digizeitschriften.de/

DZ was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. It will be a
subscription service. Currently 9 Sondersammelgebiet libraries are
participating. They have selected high quality journals and will have a
moving wall for recent issues in the same way as JSTOR. DZ is open to
suggestions for new subjects and titles.

The feasibility study was conducted in 1999-2000, 1.5 billion pages were
scanned in part 1 during 2001-2002, and 3 billion pages will be scanned
during part 2 in 2003-5. DigiZeitschriften e.V. is established
2/12/2002 as a gemeinnŸtzer Verein, i.e. non-profit, with office in
Gšttingen. A survey produced a Òwish listÓ of titles, but not all
publishers may be willing to provide the rights.

Text prior to 1925/33 is presumed to be copyright-free. Up to 1995 is a
period of doubt, and the author retains electronic copyright. Journals
are able to assert electronic copyright for the period after 1996. DZ
pays Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort (the ÒGerman Copyright Clearance
CenterÓ) a small amount for digitization rights.

DZ is currently heavily used, and use is growing rapidly. What are the
plans for the future? DFG support will end at some point. 250 Û/yr is
needed [from each subscribing institution?]; ca. 40 subscribing
libraries would be the break even point, depending on the pricing model.
Fees would be a collection fee [=the capital development fee collected
by JSTOR, intended to facilitate continued growth] and a small
subscription fee in the 400-4000 Û range.

Access will be restricted to subscribers only in October 2004; there
will be special prices for earlybird subscribers. DZ is looking for
additional subjects and new DFG grants, including for Jewish Studies and
Oriental Studies. Caren Schweder schweder@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de is
the principal email contact.

Jeff Garrett asked: would DZ price lower for US libraries? Mittler: we
should discuss it; his library canÕt afford PCI, ProQuest insists on
US-level prices. Dale Askey thinks PCI pricing is way out of line;Yale
refuses to get it.

Walden and Mittler suggested there be a subgroup of the CDWG for German
access to Anglo-American materials.

We would like to see a new model for use statistics that might help us
propose a new pricing scheme for DZ.

Askey notes there is already some overlap between JSTOR and PCI.

Garrett thinks that we should be sensitive to the relationship between
JSTOR and ProQuest, who are often competing for rights to the same
material. Some of these issues will be relevant for DZ as well. JG
suggests the CDWG work up a document on licensing issues. He would be
interested in working on this.

CDWG Action Items:

1. Find a pricing scheme for North American access to DigiZeitschriften
2. Start a conversation with ProQuest about a better pricing scheme for
German libraries
3. Explore the utility of contact partnerships for reference work, e.g.
sharing contact partner info within member libraries.