The Secret Art of Patron-Driven eBook Acquisition: A snapshot of Cost and Control
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The Secret Art of Patron-Driven eBook Acquisition
A Snapshot of Cost and Control
Dana Longley
SUNY Empire State College
PDA?• Model: just-in-time, not just-in-case• Print collections: 80/6 rule*• Coll dev: emerging fields**
*OhioLINK Collection Building Task Force. 2011. OhioLINK-OCLC Collection and Circulation Analysis Project 2011.**Fischer, et. al. (2012). Give 'Em What They Want: A One-Year Study of Unmediated Patron-Driven Acquisition of e-Books. College & Research Libraries, 73(5), 469-492.
Abbreviations
• ESC: Empire State College• PDA: patron-driven acquisitions• DDA: demand-driven acquisitions (same thing)
• STL: short-term loan• YPB: Yankee Book Publisher
Ebrary Definitions
Short term loan: 1 or 7 day trigger by user
Purchase multiplier: cost of STL based on publisher-controlled % of cost of title
Trigger: -Copy, download or print -10 pg views -10 min. real usage
ESC Background
• FTE: ~8400 (~20,000 adult, distance students)• 35 locations in NYS (and abroad)• Hundreds of blended & online courses offered• Fully online library (no physical collection)• 4 librarians (no support staff/student workers)• PDA since Sept. 2013
eBooks @ ESC
Springer16%
other collec-tions9%
ebrary subscription46%
ebrary purchases
0%
ebrary PDA/STL
30%
EBook Collections
Setup• Triggers before purchase• Titles included?• Turn-away prevention?• Purchase licenses• Approvals?• STL length• Add to catalog• Initial budget
Upsides
• 81,000+ added eBooks available• Only pay for titles that are used• Easy to add new titles as they come out• Track usage and spending
Downsides
Sep 13
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Ave cost / trigger over time
Cost
Costs
• Titles made available: 81,516• List price: $268,773• # of triggers: 2,670• Spent: $54,735• cost / trigger: $19.69• Titles purchased: 90
User Behavior
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# of triggers
29 117 178 423 192 261 253 296 152 136 48 31 46 65 88 112 37 61 58 87
2575
125175225275325375425
# of triggers Sept 2013 - Apr 2015
Axis Title
Top PDA TitlesTitle
User Sessions
Pgs Viewed Total
Persuasion : History, Theory, Practice 75 2028 2103
Business Ethics : Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality (5th Edition)
108 1940 2048
Architects of World History : Researching the Global Past 88 1624 1712
Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life 68 1628 1696
Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, Volume 170 : Church and School in Early Modern Protestantism
60 1569 1629
Introducing Language and Intercultural Communication 76 1452 1528
Religions of the Ancient Near East 82 1306 1388
Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party : Inside an Authoritarian Regime 52 1324 1376
Introduction to Theories of Personality (7th Edition) 64 1220 1284
Supply Chain Strategies : Demand Driven and Customer Focused (2nd Edition)
40 1236 1276
• Watch prices carefully• Deeper usage analysis
• Possible SUNY-wide / SUNYConnect applications?
• Slides: http://tinyurl.com/pdasunyla15
Looking Forward
Image Credits1. https://flic.kr/p/atDq3e by torbakhopper
2. https://flic.kr/p/a4Y7BV by Thomas Hawk
3. https://flic.kr/p/d5XbNW by Thomas Leth-Olsen
4. https://flic.kr/p/xXUXf by Nicole Hanusek
5. https://flic.kr/p/9DhwNs by johnson d
6. https://flic.kr/p/6PiWqn by Gisela Francisco
7. https://flic.kr/p/5j1urX by Steve Jurvetson
8. https://flic.kr/p/aec2jS by Tom Wachtel
9. https://flic.kr/p/dXtxJ8 by That’s Me
10. https://flic.kr/p/qLZjru by Kat R
11. https://flic.kr/p/iULa2A by Christian Holitzko
12. https://flic.kr/p/de5Z8v by Kristina Alexanderson