International
Pricing Models
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America and Africa: 2USD
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United Kingdom: 2GBP
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European Union Countries: 2 Euros
Full
Time Equivalent (FTE) for schools, community colleges,
colleges and universities refers to the size of
the student body. (FTE
Exemptions: Special needs students. The World
eBook Library provides free membership services
for the seeing and learning impaired individuals.)
Full
Time Equivalent (FTE) for businesses, corporations,
nonprofit but also not academic organizations,
and government agencies commonly refers to staff
size.
Full
Time Equivalent (FTE) for public libraries priced
according to number of cardholders.
One
method of pricing services to libraries is the
FTE pricing model. This model can be used to determine
a library's cost for subscriptions or other services.
Pricing is announced as being "per FTE." This
allows a vendor to announce pricing in very simple
terms that are easy to calculate for each library.
K-12
Schools and Higher Education
FTE is a common standard for measuring enrollment
in K-12 and higher education. Statistics
are often reported to higher levels of government
and accrediting organizations in terms of student
FTEs. State Departments of Education and accrediting
agencies have developed their own definitions
of how many student hours/credit hours/days represent
an FTE student. Part-time students are counted
as fractional FTEs, then summed to provide a total
enrollment figure. In other words two half-time
students add up to a single FTE. Basically the
FTE is equivalent to the total enrollment of a
school. You should use the accepted local formula
for calculating your FTE student enrollment. Frequently
your school administration already has this number
calculated.
Use
your best guess about your FTEs during the subscription
year. If in doubt, start with your previous fall
enrollment and make adjustments for anticipated
growth or attrition.
Adjusted
FTE,
To apply the FTE measurement to multiple types
of libraries, often requires "tweaking." A database
publisher may analyze the utility of its product
and determine that it has little relevance to
children in the lower elementary grades, and that
it would be unfair to include their FTE in calculating
the price of the database for a K-12 school.
Publishers
may also acknowledge that residential campuses
can make much more use of their database than
nonresidential campuses (community colleges).
This is also true of public libraries.
Nonschool
/ Nonacademic Libraries
The FTE model is also used for nonschool/nonacademic
libraries.
Public
libraries are often required to use the size
of the population served multiplied by some vendor
determined tweak factor. Generally the population
served is based on the population of the geographic
area that provides tax money to support the library.
The number of circulation transactions, people
that walk in the door or library cards in circulation
is also considered.
To
accommodate these situations, some form of a discount
is employed. This is usually done by using a fraction
of the institution's actual FTE count. These fractional
counts are often referred to as "Adjusted FTEs."
Employers
often use FTE to refer to their total number of
employees. Or, for Web-based products, an employer
might be asked to count only FTEs that have desktop
access to the Internet.
When
joining online, at http://WorldeBookLibrary.com/Join.htm,
you will have a chance to indicate on the form
your institutional FTE population, at which time
you may indicate adjustments in the FTE calculation..
Once submitted your application will be reviewed.
When the FTE audit is able to authenticate your
application your membership account will be activated.
Usually the total process should take 24hr.
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