[Eril-l] DDA pool: disentangling DDA publisher exclusions from high STL charges
Swindler, Luke
luke_swindler at unc.edu
Wed Dec 17 09:04:23 PST 2014
Jennifer (and also Melissa Belvadi),
Librarians of course must work within the context of what the platform currently allows, while also continuing to have on-going and frank conversations with publishers/vendors about what is optimal. (Specifically I spend a great deal of time working with content providers on e-books issues in terms of what works best for libraries and readers, advising them on these matters, and responding to their requests for input.)
My goal is to have the collections function insofar as possible according to what I call my “Triple A Philosophy”: Automatic, Algorithmic, and At Point of Need. Controlling costs for a large and rapidly growing DDA pool by triggering mediation at a fixed dollar threshold price on the first STL charge represents the best compromise for UNC in terms of what the platform options currently exist. Ideally, I want a “Triple A” solution mentioned above and have indicated this to the EBL (along with how I think it would work).
Luke Swindler
On Dec 17, 2014, at 11:08 AM, jsauer at fhsu.edu<mailto:jsauer at fhsu.edu> wrote:
When you state, "patrons are presented with a “Request Library Purchase”
button to click if she/he wants to continue reading the DDA e-book with a
STL cost of over $50 beyond the free 5-minute browse period." are you
indicating EVERY 5 minute browse will generate this, or only the threshold
browse (i.e. the STL that triggers an outright purchase)? I see the value
of mediation at a purchase point, but not necessarily at the STL point. The
mediation issue stirs up debate in relationship to our primary goals for
DDA which includes making as much content as possible available to as many
of our patrons as possible at the absolute point of need. We (like so many)
have large distance student populations spread all around the world. Even
if we are attending to the mediation "as soon as possible", our students in
China or India are certainly left at a disadvantage to our stateside
students (and on-campus students) simply because we are not present when
they are doing the majority of their course-work and research (time zones).
This is a great thread - we've been struggling with how to proceed in
"managing" and trying to exert some form of "control" over DDA
expenditures.
Best regards,
Jennifer
Jennifer Sauer
Electronic Resources Management Librarian
Fort Hays State University
Forsyth Library
600 Park
Hays, KS 67601
Voice: (785)628-5262
Fax:(785)628-5415
From: "Swindler, Luke" <luke_swindler at unc.edu<mailto:luke_swindler at unc.edu>>
To: "eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>" <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>>,
Date: 12/16/2014 02:33 PM
Subject: [Eril-l] DDA pool: disentangling DDA publisher exclusions from
high STL charges
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Librarians need to disentangle questions about which publishers to exclude
from concerns about high STL charges—especially in terms of not letting the
latter unnecessarily influence the former.
UNC Chapel Hill Libraries chose EBL as its only DDA provider in large part
precisely because it allows libraries to avoid excessive short-term lending
charges while offering users a robust array of potentially relevant
e-books.
Even excluding e-books with a list price >$250 from the UNC DDA pool, STL
charges have varied greatly. For a 24-hour checkout period, they ranged
from <$1 to >$70 because of wide variances in both list price and publisher
STL charges as a % of list price. Given that 3 STLs trigger purchase, UNC
could incur >$200 in charges before automatically buying an e-book,
resulting in an extreme case in total cost of >$500 when the purchase price
is added to the STL charges.
UNC faced with three options for eliminating expensive STL charges:
• Preemptively remove all publishers that had a STL charge above a
specified % of list price;
• Preemptively remove all e-books from the DDA when the STL charge
would be in excess of a certain % of list price on an on-going basis
o Either of these options would not only eliminate titles with low
STL charges in absolute dollars but defeat the primary DDA goal to
“Improve support for the academic enterprise by presenting faculty
and students with a large number of potentially useful and relevant
e-book for possible acquisition” as well as add to UNC’s DDA
transactions processing costs; or
• Move to mediated purchase for e-books when STL charge exceeds an
absolute amount.
UNC will be implementing a DDA configuration whereby patrons are presented
with a “Request Library Purchase” button to click if she/he wants to
continue reading the DDA e-book with a STL cost of over $50 beyond the free
5-minute browse period. The system emails a notice to the Collections
Management Officer indicating a DDA e-book purchase has been requested. As
a rule CMO will automatically approve purchase—and do so as soon a possible
after getting request.
Luke Swindler
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