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ALCTS webinar: Intro to Managing Serials w/ Net Cost per Paid Use


Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.

 

Description: This webinar will introduce a new metric for evaluating the cost effectiveness of Serials: Net Cost Per Paid Use (NCPPU). NCPPU goes beyond the standard Cost Per Use calculation to exclude free content (OA and back catalog), incorporate ILL costs, and value citation and authorship.


Learning outcomes:

At the end of the webinar, attendees will:


Who should attend?  

Academic librarians looking to improve the evaluation of their serials, either with an eye to saving money (by unsubscribing from journals which aren't cost effective) or regaining control of their budgets.


Presenter:

Dr. Heather Piwowar is a cofounder of Our Research, the nonprofit behind Unpaywall. Unpaywall powers the Open Access links in major discovery systems (Scopus, Web of Science) and the free browser extension used by more than 250,000 people worldwide. Heather got her bachelors and masters at MIT, worked as a computer programmer for 10 years, went back to school for her Ph.D, and has been an advocate for open science ever since.


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Registration Fees:  ALCTS Member $43; Non-member $59; Group rate $129 


For additional information and access to registration links, please go to the following website: 

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/022620


ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.


For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling 1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration@ala.org

For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, please contact alctsce@ala.org


Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.