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Kinetica Charges 2004/2005


New Pricing Model for Kinetica

The National Library is introducing a new pricing model for Kinetica effective from 1 July 2005. Charging will be based on a subscription model, rather than on transactions. Letters have been sent to all Kinetica customer libraries explaining the changes and providing each library's fee.

The new pricing model FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).

Charges

The National Library of Australia increased charges for some Kinetica services on the 1 July 2004. The National Library has considered this decision very carefully. This issue was discussed with the Kinetica Advisory Committee in March 2004, and the Committee endorsed selected price increases, noting that Kinetica has worked very hard to reduce operating expenses as far as possible. The prices that were increased from 1 July 2004 are as follows:

  • increase to Kinetica searching charges of 2.4%;
  • increased charges for e-collection sets to $330.00; and
  • implemented the pricing schedule for the new Location Data Directory product (Single site $275, Consortia $495, Commercial $935).

A review of pricing showed that there has not been a price increase for Kinetica services since July 2002. Since this time operating costs have been contained as much as possible and Kinetica has continued to maintain a quality service at the existing level. However a price increase for searching is now required to meet continuing expenses in delivering Kinetica services to your organisation. The price increase for search charges is outlined in the following table:

Previous charges (prior to 1 July 2004) Current charges
  GST exclusive GST inclusive GST exclusive GST inclusive
Class A $0.6364 $0.70 $0.65 $0.715
Class B $0.7545 $0.83 $0.7727 $0.85
Class C $0.9091 $1.00 $0.931 $1.024

Electronic Collection sets

The Electronic collection service was developed and trialed in 2003. Prices were reviewed based on information gathered in the trial. A price increase was required to better align with the cost of providing this service. It should be noted that this service requires significant resourcing and ongoing development. In response to customer demand Kinetica is continuing to work on customisation of the data as well as the addition of quality data sets to the service. An "institution specific" URL will be implemented as a part of the service shortly. The revised price for electronic collections is still significantly less than the cost of equivalent products from commercial suppliers.

The new fee schedule for e-collection sets is as follows:

Product Previous charge (prior to 1 July 2004) Current charge
E-collection sets (one base set and quarterly update files per annum) $117.00 (inc. GST) $330.00 (inc. GST)

 


Charges - from 1 July 2004

Kinetica has a range of flexible charging options.

All prices are inclusive of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and without GST (for overseas customers).

The following charges apply to the use of Kinetica services and products by member libraries, they do not apply to the re-sale of Kinetica services or data. Organisations that wish to sell, publish or distribute Kinetica data should contact Kinetica Customer Services on 1800 026 155 to discuss their requirements.

If you have any questions email Kinetica Customer Support at kinetica@nla.gov.au, phone us on 1800 026 155, or subscribe to the KINETICA-L mailing list for news.


Joining fee

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

A one off charge to join Kinetica.

$263.64

$290.00

Core services

The core services of Kinetica are:

  • searching the National Bibliographic Database (NBD)
  • searching of any other database through a Kinetica gateway, such as RLIN, Te Puna and the Australian National Chinese, Japanese and Korean databases
  • MARC records delivered via the Internet in files containing fewer than 2,000 records.

Charges for core service by class of user

There are 3 classes of users, with different levels of contribution to the NBD and different core service charges.

Class A User

Class A Users pay a discounted rate on their Core Service Charges from the beginning of the month after the customer becomes a Class A User. The level of contribution to the NBD must meet the following criteria for material being added to the user's library collection:

  • holdings data for 80% or more of all material received that the Class A User intends to retain indefinitely; AND
  • cataloguing records for 80% or more of all material received that the Class A User intends to retain indefinitely that is not found on the NBD.
  • This data must be contributed online within four weeks of the material arriving at the Class A User's library.

Note:
Records added through the Web Input interface are considered equivalent to holdings data, rather than cataloguing records, as they are only minimum level and not full records. Web input records are therefore classified as Class B contributions.

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Charge per search transaction
Please note there is no charge for viewing or manipulating search result lists.

$0.65

$0.715

Class B User

Class B Users pay a discounted rate on their Core Service Charges from the beginning of the month after the customer becomes a Class B User. The level of contribution to the NBD must meet the following criteria for material being added to the user's library collection:

  • holdings AND/OR cataloguing data for 20% or more of all material received that the Class B User intends to retain indefinitely.
  • This data must be contributed online within four weeks of the material arriving at the Class B User's library; OR offline by batchlink upload according to a schedule to be agreed by the Class B User and the National Library.

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Charge per search transaction
Please note there is no charge for viewing or manipulating search result lists.

$0.7727

$0.85

Class C User

Class C Users pay the full rate for their Core Service Charges and are not required to contribute any holdings data or cataloguing records to the NBD.

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Charge per search transaction
Please note there is no charge for viewing or manipulating search result lists.

$0.931

$1.024

Minimum monthly charge for all core services

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Per month
Per quarter

$30.91
$92.73

$34.00
$102.00

Note: This is a minimum charge, not a surcharge added to charges for use. For example, a Class C user who performs 10 searches in a month will be charged $34.00 for that month (not $10.00), whereas a class C user who performs 100 searches in a month is charged $100.00 (not $100.00 + $34.00)

 


Batch*Link

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Uploading files of bibliographic records or holdings to the NBD using Batch*Link.

No Charge

No Charge

Kinetica Document Delivery (KDD) and related services

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

KDD
The charge for each document request sent

 

$1.0630

 

$1.1700

KDD Payment Service
Financial Services Charge per transaction levied on both the supplier and the requestor

 

$0.3182

 

$0.3500

Location Data

This product supports inter-library loan activities for Australian libraries. It is a detailed directory of Australian inter-library loan participants sourced from the Kinetica Document Delivery (KDD) system. This data is being made available to those libraries who have implemented their own inter-library loan system and cannot access the directory data shared in KDD.

 

Location Data Charging Schedule
 

GST included (Australian customers)

Single site

 

$275

Consortia
Where data is loaded on a single shared server

 

$495

Commercial
Commercial supplier may reformat and on-sell to its customers

 

$935

Note: The Financial Services Charge is charged to both requestor and supplier for each document supplied using the Document Delivery Payment Service where a charge is imposed on the requestor by the supplying library for the supply of the document.

MARC records - Downline Loading Services

Downloading: MARC*Link and Remote TPSDLL

MARC*Link service downloads MARC records up to 5 times a day according to a schedule you set.

The Remote TPSDLL software offers immediate downloading of MARC records into your library system, i.e. real time downloading


No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Registration for downline loading: per customer

Remote TPSDLL software: per copy

$53.18

$1,068.18

$58.50

$1,175.00

Note: Records downloaded from the NBD are covered by the Kinetica Core Servces.

MARC records - Holdings File Service

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

On demand orders: per order

One-off registration for a regular file

$53.18

$53.18

$58.50

$58.50

Record charges

1 - 2,000 records

 

No charge

 

No charge

Records 2001+ are charged as follows:

   

Note: - 2,000 records are covered by the charges for the Kinetica Core Service.

Standard rate records - GST included (for Australian customers)



No. of records
in output file

Base charge

 

Plus

For each record
in excess of

2 001-10 000

$0.00

 

$0.3070

2 000

10 001-50 000

$2,456.00

 

$0.2050

10 000

50 001-100 000

$10,656.00

 

$0.1250

50 000

100 001-200 000

$16,906.00

 

$0.0740

100 000

200 001-500 000

$24,306.00

 

$0.0455

200 000

500 001+

$37,956.00

 

$0.0387

500 000



Standard rate records - No GST included (for overseas customers)



No. of records
in output file

Base charge

 

Plus

For each record
in excess of

2 001-10 000

$0.00

 

$0.2791

2 000

10 001-50 000

$2,232.73

 

$0.1864

10 000

50 001-100 000

$9,687.27

 

$0.1136

50 000

100 001-200 000

$15,369.09

 

$0.0672

100 000

200 001-500 000

$22,096.36

 

$0.0414

200 000

500 001+

$34,505.45

 

$0.0309

500 000



Concessional rate records- GST included (for Australian customers)

For example - MARC bibliographic records re-supplied, e.g. fresh file of records to update library catalogue.



No. of records
in output file

Base charge

 

Plus

For each record
in excess of

2001-50 000

$ 0.00

 

$0.0930

2000

50 001-200 000

$ 4,464.00

 

$0.0512

50 000

200 001-

$12,144.00

 

$0.0270

200 000



Concessional rate records- No GST included (for overseas customers)

For example - MARC bibliographic records re-supplied, e.g. fresh file of records to update library catalogue.



No. of records
in output file

Base charge

 

Plus

For each record
in excess of

2001-50 000

$ 0.00

 

$0.0845

2000

50 001-200 000

$ 4058.18

 

$0.0465

50 000

200 001-

$11,040.00

 

$0.0245

200 000



Commercial and re-use charges

A charge for the commercial use of MARC records for cataloguing or other purposes will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Records supplied by Kinetica which are shared within a group of institutions for cataloguing purposes will also be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Contact Kinetica Customer Support kinetica@nla.gov.au for more information.


Kinetica Titles List

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Run charge, per run:

Records 1-5000

Record charge, for each record in excess of 5,000

$53.18

No charge

$0.0845

$58.50

No charge

$0.09300

Authority MARC Output

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Run charge, per run:

$1,600.00

$1,760.00

Note: There is no record processing charge for this service. The flat run charge applies irrespective of whether the customer receives the full file or a subset of it.

Electronic Collection sets

GST included (Australian customers)

Charge for one base set and quarterly update file: per annum

Charge for one base set: per annum

$330.00

$330.00

Microform Collection sets

GST included (Australian customers)

Run charge per run: $58.50
Records 1-2000 No charge

Records 2001+

Refer to the rates in the Standard Rates record table

Training courses

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

KineticaWeb (half day), per person:

N/A

$58.00

KineticaWeb hands-on (half day), per person:

N/A

$120.00

Kinetica Cataloguing Client (2 days), per person:

N/A

$390.00

Kinetica Document Delivery (1 day), per person:

N/A

$225.00

Note: These charges apply to training courses conducted by the National Library of Australia and are recommended charges for Kinetica Training Agents.

Documentation

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Kinetica Client manual

$40.91

$45.00

All About Kinetica Web

$40.91

$45.00

Learn Kinetica Document Delivery

$20.00

$22.00

Kinetica Document Delivery manual

$30.00

$33.00

*KDD Special* - KDD Manual, Learn KDD and At a Glance - Requesting and Supplying

$35.00

$38.50

Note: A discount of 10% will be offered when 10 or more copies of the same document are purchased at one time.

Kinetica Client software

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Annual Kinetica Client licence fee per copy of the Client.

$129.09

$142.00

Note: Each customer adding cataloguing records to the NBD is entitled to one free copy of the Client for every 300 cataloguing records (or part thereof) the customer adds in a year.

 

Library schools

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

Library schools accessing the NBD via the Kinetica Training database and :-

  • Searching the NBD
  • Using the Cataloguing Client
  • Using Kinetica Document Delivery (KDD)

No Charge

No Charge

Note: Access to other databases, e.g. RLG, CURL and WorldCat will attract a fee.

Individuals

No GST (overseas customers)

GST included (Australian customers)

One off joining fee

Cost per search
   NBD and CJK
   RLIN

$27.27


$0.50
$1.00

$30.00


$0.55
$1.10

Note: Searches must be prepaid in $100 (excl GST), $110 (incl GST) blocks. There is no time limit for using these prepaid searches.