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

[Erin E Rushton]

Hi Mary
I just wanted to mention that I really like R2 Digital Library's PDA
model.  R2 is primarily a heath sciences ebook platform and I use R2 to
purchase a lot of titles in Nursing.  You choose which books you want added
to your collection.  Each book can be viewed three times before its added
to your shopping cart and even then you still have the option of deciding
whether its something you want to purchase or not (so no books are ever
automatically bought).   R2 provides monthly reports so its easy to keep
track of your PDA collection.
My two criticisms with R2 is that they archive older editions of books (so
you need to remove these PDA records from the catalogue) and some titles
are expensive.

http://www.r2library.com/Home/About

Erin

On 15 December 2014 at 17:17, Karen Jensen <kljensen at alaska.edu> wrote:
>
> When we first started doing PDA for electronic books, we didn't limit on
> publishers. After seeing some titles we would never have purchased, I put
> in limits by publisher. Then I realized that the actual uses of
> non-academic titles was so minimal, that it didn't really matter; the total
> cost of these titles was tiny in proportion to the whole. I have left the
> publisher limit, but some titles still come through that we would not have
> ever purchased in print. It's just not enough to worry about. I guess that
> would be my advice; is it enough to warrant spending your time analyzing?
> If so, then publisher is an easy way to start.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:49 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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> Karen Jensen
> Collection Development
> Rasmuson Library
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
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