[Eril-l] question re STL-DDA with EBSCO, Proquest, YBP

[Melissa Belvadi]

Several people including from the vendors themselves claim that those
"important changes" type lists from both vendors do include drops due to
change in STL availability.

However, I found when using the libcentral report that Proquest provides
(that several members of this list told me about) that we had over 2,000
books still active and visible in our DDA profile that have STL=no.  That
might be an artifact of the merger of EBL and Ebrary, though and perhaps
not ongoing, but I've got Proquest support looking into it further.

I recommend all the Proquest DDA customers with an STL setting on should
export that list and check it for yourselves in case you too have some of
these lingering from that merger.

That same list turns out also to be a great way to catch books whose price
has slipped too high - I found one that was above $500 and our cutoff is
$175.

What got me started on this was a few invoices that came in for
DDA-triggered purchases that had no corresponding STL, which supposedly
shouldn't happen if both vendors are removing from the pools the titles
that lose STL eligibility. Those invoices included books from both
platforms, EBSCO and Proquest, so both apparently have some problems with
doing this reliably (or perhaps in a timely enough fashion).

Melissa

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Emily Judith Ray <ejray at ualr.edu> wrote:

> Melissa,
>
> We have a DDA plan with gobi for Ebscohost ebooks with 1 STL before a
> triggered purchase.  I thought that the emails we get from gobi "Important
> changes to your collection" included both titles that publishers had
> removed from the DDA pool altogether, and titles that were removed from our
> pool due to the publisher removing the STL option. We then manually remove
> these titles from our catalog, and Ebsco removes them from EDS
> automatically.
>
> I'm going to confirm with gobi that the titles that drop the STL option
> are included on this lists. I know we don't get a triggered purchase on the
> first use when a title loses the STL option.
>
> Emily
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 13, 2017, Melissa Belvadi <mbelvadi at upei.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi, all. This question is just for any of you who have a DDA program with
>> EBSCO, Proquest, or YBP that includes one or more STLs (short term loans).
>>
>> We have a YBP/Gobi DDA program that works with both EBSCO and Proquest
>> ebooks, and our profile requires that an ebook allow 1 STL charge for the
>> use before the second use triggers the full purchase.
>>
>> I just discovered that if a publisher changes their rules so that STLs
>> are no longer allowed, our previously profiled ebooks are NOT
>> grandfathered, but need to be removed or else the first use will trigger
>> full purchase.
>>
>> YBP tells me that we need to be getting from each of EBSCO and Proquest a
>> monthly report listing which of our profiled DDA ebooks with them became
>> ineligible for STL so we can manually remove them (both from the catalogue
>> and the platform DDA collection).
>>
>> Do any of you do this? If so, for each of EBSCO and Proquest, how do you
>> get that report?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Melissa Belvadi
>> Collections Librarian
>> University of Prince Edward Island
>> mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581 <(902)%20566-0581>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Emily Ray
>
> Metadata and Discovery Services Librarian
> Collections and Archives
> Technology and Digital Initiatives
> University of Arkansas at Little Rock
> 2801 S. University Ave.
> Little Rock, AR 72204
> 501-683-1744 <(501)%20683-1744>
>
>


-- 
Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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