Istex tender commission

Istex tender commission:
reception, analysis of bids and selection
Couperin
Sandrine Malotaux
Responsable département des négociations documentaires,
Head of Licensing department, Couperin
[email protected]
Valérie Larroque
[email protected]
Anne-Sophie Bouzom
[email protected]
First call for tender
(10.01.13)
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250 submissions, 52 publishers
11 offers including content in French
15 offers including content in German
Humanities: 69 offers, 63% content in
English only
First selection
Spring 2013
Criteria: survey conducted among French researchers, assessing
their needs for research information (Autumn 2012)
7162 answers
65 %: journals
First selection
Spring 2013
First selection according to the ranking resulting
from the survey: cf www.istex.fr
Selected: journals. Balance between academic
fields (when possible)
Most highly rated resources in each academic field
Cross-checking between fields
Checking using subject reference lists (from research
assessment agencies f.i.)
Journal citation report (lists by subject) and Scopus +
specialised databases
Occurrence in national and international library
catalogs
Second selection
• Text copora
• E-books
Selection:
- National-level trial + survey
- Analysis by information specialists and
researchers: 200 answers
- Usage statistics, occurrence in catalogs (when
relevant)
-> a collective process
Result of the national trial
October-November 2013
• 148 resources
• 2034 answers
Domaine
Nb de
réponses
%
Sciences Politiques et Droit
31
1,28%
Pluridisciplinaire
61
3,25%
Sciences Economiques et Gestion
86
5,51%
Sciences de la Vie et de la Santé
254
11,81%
Lettres et Sciences Humaines
436
20,86%
1165
57,30%
Sciences et Techniques
Result of the national trial
• 40% of researchers discovering the resource
during the trial
• Three publishers representing 60,5% of all answers
• Resources in English most highly rated
Second selection
Priority to most highly ranked resources
covering a wider research community
completing the first selection in certain fields
including a wider time-coverage
4 resources in sciences and technology (Earth, planet and
space science, chemistry, pluridisciplinary with an excellency in
space science, chemistry and mathematics) highly rated by
researchers (2012 national survey + 2013 national try)
3 resources in economics and management, highly rated
1 resource, law and political science
www.istex.fr
Difficulties
Some resources highly ranked and needed were not
submitted
Poor number of resources in French or German
No resource in other languages
Some resources highly specialised: concerning only a
very limited research community in France
Next step
New call for tender to be launched shortly.
Not being selected at the first stage does not mean elimination!
Our expectations:
- Delivery of data, to be hosted on Istex platform (compulsory)
- Compliancy to technical requirements (to be precised further)
- Wider coverage (period of time, subject)
- Access to be granted to all users: Higher education and research +
BnF, BPI, public libraries (NB: no remote access possible to these
latest users)
- Text corpora in Latin, Greek, medieval languages, european
languages
- Level: research (no textbooks or handbooks for undergraduate
students)
- Price