The report investigates how academic libraries are handling contract review for content licenses.  The study helps its readers answer questions such as: How much time are librarians spending on contract review? How often are contact sent out for review by college/university or other legal staff or contractors?  How much time are legal staff spending on library content contract reviews? What percentage of libraries have a contract price “trigger” that necessitates legal review for a contract?

The study also presents detailed data on the frequency of use, trends and plans for so called “Big Deals” for academic journals, arrangements that account for a high share of  content licensing costs for colleges and universities.  In open ended questions, survey participants talk about their plans for content licensing review and for the “Big Deals.”

Just a few of this report’s many findings are that:

• Almost all survey participants with a contract price trigger that necessitates legal review for a content contract were research universities.
• The number of hours of librarian staff time spent annually on content license contract review issues ranged from 0 to 2,000.
• More than 60% of library directors were satisfied or very satisfied with their contract review procedures.

Data in the 49-page report is broken out by size and type of institution, by tuition level, for public and private institutions and by other useful variables.  A PDF edition of this report is currently available for $95.00 directly from Primary Research Group; a print edition will be available for shipment on March 10th 2020 and can be ordered now.  Site licenses are also available.

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