[Eril-l] DDA pool: disentangling DDA publisher exclusions from high STL charges

Wed Dec 17 08:33:13 PST 2014

One thing our consortium experienced was an increasing price for 7 day loans versus 1 day loans, especially on science/engineering titles. So we nixed 7 day loans, at least for some publishers that were boosting prices too high.

This was changed fairly recently. It's probably too soon to say how much money it's saved us, or how many patrons have been inconvenienced by having 1-day loans instead of 7 days.

Diane Westerfield, Electronic Resources & Serials Librarian
Tutt Library, Colorado College
diane.westerfield at coloradocollege.edu
(719) 389-6661
(719) 389-6082 (fax)

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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>
To:	"eril-l at lists.eril-l.org" <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
Sent by:	"Eril-l" <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org>

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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