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Dorothy Dixers

Is a single pricing model/standard possible or desirable?

NO

Should pricing models or mechanisms be flexible?– Sensitive to different market/country

conditions– Accommodating technological change?

YES

Taking the temperature

Do we accept that approaches to pricing and access must be different in the print and electronic environments?

YES

Does everyone agree that the “big deal” should be allowed to die?

gradually no perhaps horses for courses

Do we need to move away from the print price (historic or current) as the pricing or costing standard?

YES

Is the hybrid environment, the need to maintain parallel print and electronic streams, a critical complicating factor in pricing?

YES If so for how long

cf print-on-demand

Are multi-year agreements acceptable?

Only with opt-out clauses and opt-in provisions

The Big Issues

Is the product the problem?’

YES

And if so, what can or should we do about it.

eprint archives/Open Archive Initiative, etc.

Should we be able to choose between a Rolls Royce and a Morris Minor?

But who pays the bill? Will it extend the market?

And if so, is document delivery (traditional or hybrid,mediated or unmediated) the real Morris Minor?

a taxi?

If we move away from the print price(historic or current), what should the new pricing standard be?– Usage?

reluctantly inevitably

What should the licence buy in terms of access– simply access within the terms of the licence– AND– continuing access to “subscribed” material

beyond the term of the licence? ONLINE on payment of

continuing access fee

And what about archiving? Whose responsibility? Who pays? How?

a role for national libraries via legal deposit provisions

Within consortium deals, who should decide institutional pricing?

the vendor OR the consortium?

depends transparency important