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Ebrary patron driven acquisition

Ebrary patron driven acquisition . E-book Challenges . What is preventing your library from acquiring more e-books?. Budget cuts Budget competes with other resources Having to do more with less Perception of print as favorable over digital

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Ebrary patron driven acquisition

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  1. Ebrary patron driven acquisition

  2. E-book Challenges What is preventing your library from acquiring more e-books? • Budget cuts • Budget competes with other resources • Having to do more with less • Perception of print as favorable over digital • Uncertain e-book demand among faculty and staff • Difficult to manage

  3. How Does PDA Address Budget Challenges? Cost-effectively meet patron demand and guarantee usage • Eliminate costly “just in case” purchases • Offer access to hundreds of thousands of e-books • Ability to narrow selection by subject, publisher, price, and more • Only purchase if used • Control your budget with fund codes

  4. Patron Driven Acquisition Lowdown Vastly expand your selection to cost effectively meet patron demand • Real-time management of profiles • Available through ebrary • Single and multi-user access and downloads • Complimentary MARC records • Combined with subscription provides the greatest ROI • Over 330,000 available titles • Generous triggers • 10 page views (excluding TOC & index) • 10 minutes of real usage • Copies, prints or downloads • Narrow selection by subject, publisher, price, and more • Usage based short-term loans available as mediation • 1 or 7 day periods • Up to 3 loans per titles

  5. Sub Usage Drives Strategic Acquisition Support key programs with Perpetual Archive PA Supplement lower-use subjects with Short-Term Loans STL Expand high-use subjects with Patron Driven Acquisition PDA SUB Subscription provides the base in multiple subjects

  6. ROI Combining PDA with subscription provides the greatest return on investment • Purchasing 330,000 PDA titles outright would cost over $25 million • By also subscribing to Academic Complete™: • Leverage usage statistics for strategic PDA profiling • Provide an affordable base collection of 86,000+ e-books valued at well over $7M • Free DASH!™ (Data Sharing, Fast) for your own digital repositories • Plus • Free downloads • Free mobile apps • Free MARCs • COUNTER-compliant usage reports

  7. Benefit to Researchers • Titles discoverable on the ProQuest platform • Full-text searchable via Summon and future integration with WorldCat Local • Future combination with EBL • Turnaway Prevention! • 24x7 access on and offline • Dedicated app for iPad®, iPhone®and iPod touch® • Shareable bookshelves • Highlighting and annotating • RefWorks and EndNote integration • Multiple search and navigation options • Chapter ranking of search results • ebrary InfoTools™ • Interface in multiple languages • ADA compliant • Comprehensive support and training

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