highlights from Case Studies
Case Study #1
Case Study #2
Case Study #2
1000+ employee pharmaceutical company
- Discovered vendor had added a demo IP address to our account accidentally and usage went through the roof!
- Avoided $250K renewal fee increase from vendor resulting from this mistake on their end.
Case Study #2
Case Study #2
Case Study #2
350+ employee biotech company
- Company was not taking advantage of discounted Mass Bio Rates for subscriptions.
- Company never activated subscription that they had PAID FOR!
- Paid for subscription, but never added IPs to account.
- Articles purchased through document delivery were redundant as content was available through subscriptions, but the subscriptions were not activated or had incorrect IPs.
- In total, mismanagement of resources cost the company ~$65K.
Case Study #3
Case Study #3
Case Study #3
800+ employee pharmaceutical company
- Incomplete subscription in the Reprints Desk system allowed orders to be processed to which company already had access.
- Incorrect IP addresses in Elsevier subscription prevented users access to subscribed content (ScienceDirect, Token account and PharmaPendium).
- Token accounts with LWW ($5K) and Elsevier ($10K) not used because of incorrect IP addresses listed in accounts.
- Over $100K could have been saved through proper implementation and management of resources.
Case Study #4
Case Study #3
Case Study #3
250+ employee biotech company
- Company was spending $160,000 on an intelligence tool that only 3 people in the organization were using. Transitioned to a comparable tool and saved the company $85,000.
- Company's IP addresses were not accurately listed in subscription accounts, causing access issues and duplication of spend for acquiring articles.
- Journal usage did not justify the subscription (savings of $1100).
- Subscription holdings hadn’t been updated since the literature management system was implemented several years prior, resulting in emails to administrator (contact no longer at the company) that the content was unavailable and orders not getting processed.
- Suggested purchase of tokens from heavily used publishers realizing savings of $13-$27/article.
- Established Collaboration agreement with Copyright Clearance Center to ensure copyright compliance for sharing PDFs with partnering companies.