[Eril-l] looking for group wisdom on Patron Driven Acquisition: limiting by publisher

[Lisa Gonzalez]

We also modified our DDA profile with YBP to exclude particular publishers
who had raised their STL percentages significantly. We use both the Ebrary
and EBL platforms through YBP; EBL had more options in their profiling to
allow us to mediate STL requests at a certain price point in order for us
to have more control over spending (our DDA program is unmediated.) Ebrary
didn’t have these options, so that was where we modified our YBP profile to
exclude publishers. I agree that publishers should see DDA programs as an
opportunity to get more exposure for their publications, but I know they
are concerned with the unpredictability of the model as far as their
revenues are concerned.



Our overall DDA philosophy is to get as many ebooks as possible that might
be of interest to our patrons, even in peripheral areas. We are heavily
focused on theology and Biblical studies in our DDA profile, but have
modified our program recently to allow more cognate areas; we don’t
anticipate this will cost significantly more, since I think that if our
patrons aren’t interested in the cognate areas, they simply won’t use the
ebooks. The focus of our cost control efforts is on list price and STL
costs – for us, it is more economical to buy the ebook after one STL.
Looking at our usage statistics for the past couple of years, about 10% of
our discovery pool of records gets some kind of use, including browsing,
STLs and purchases. While excluding some publishers eliminates ebooks our
patrons might otherwise be interested in, we need to be able to control
costs in order to be able to offer DDA titles to our patrons for potential
use.



Lisa Gonzalez

Electronic Resources Librarian

Catholic Theological Union

5401 S. Cornell Ave.

Chicago, IL 60615

773-371-5463

lgonzalez at ctu.edu







*From:* Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] *On Behalf Of *Melissa
Belvadi
*Sent:* Tuesday, December 16, 2014 8:47 AM
*To:* Mary Beeker
*Cc:* eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
*Subject:* Re: [Eril-l] looking for group wisdom on Patron Driven
Acquisition: limiting by publisher



We only limited out a tiny handful of "predatory" publishers whose names
won't be mentioned here for fear of lawsuits, until last spring. Then, we
were informed that a few publishers, including one major scholarly
publisher who also won't be named, had significantly increased their "STL"
price as a percentage of the book price to a level that we considered
violates the entire point of STLs. So our response was to work with our PDA
profiles, YBP, to exclude those publishers, and with the PDA book vendors
to retroactively remove all of those publishers's ebooks from our existing
set.



I strongly believe that we as a community need to send a loud and clear
message to the publishers that if they engage in these practices that
undermine these wonderful new technologies, they will lose, not gain,
profit by doing so. They can hold us hostage to price increases in the
journal sector of the industry, but not on the books. Being included in our
PDA profiles should be considered by them a marketing privilege that we
offer their products only if they deserve it.



Melissa Belvadi, UPEI



On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Mary Beeker <mbeeker at nmc.edu> wrote:

Sorry if this isn't the best place to ask this question, please let me know
if I should post elsewhere...



Can anyone share their philosophy/advice on including publishers in their
PDA collection?

We've had some rude shocks seeing what is available in our new PDA
collection.  We're wondering whether to exclude publishers from the entire
PDA profile, or perhaps to include publishers in certain call number
ranges, but not in others (e.g. our clinical nursing section)



We're a community college, so we need some intro-level books, but
reliability is key to us.



If this becomes an interesting discussion, I'm happy to collect responses
and share them.



Thanks all!

- Mary



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Mary Beeker
Northwestern Michigan College - Osterlin Library
mbeeker at nmc.edu
(231) 995-1015


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University of Prince Edward Island

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