[Eril-l] Kanopy vs. campus streaming?

[Harper, Cynthia]

So when I read this and thought about the faculty’s inability to preview the films if access is mediated, I wondered if I could set a link in my Sierra catalog’s WebBridge to look for a Preview on Youtube.  I set one up, but the only search I can do from the OCLC records is a title+publisher search.  Title wasn’t enough, I quickly found as I tried one of the first titles “17 girls”.  It’s really risky linking your catalog to un-vetted Youtube searches!!!!!   But the publisher would have been enough IFFFF I could get the data from multiple 264 fields in WebBridge, which it appears I can’t.  So I just get a search of [“17 girls” Kanopy streaming], no “strand releasing”, which is the original publisher.  Ah well.

Cindy Harper

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Subject: [Eril-l] Kanopy vs. campus streaming?

Greetings All!

UM-Dearborn is currently experimenting with turning off the Patron-Driven Acquisitions completely for the very reasons that have been described above (rising triggers and not enough money to cover all of them). We also noticed that our faculty and students were triggering films on Kanopy that we'd already purchased on other platforms (or were available in the Public Domain), as well as triggering entire series that would have been cheaper to purchase in a bundle. In short, there was a lot of money going into Kanopy a lot faster than we felt comfortable with, and it made sense to get ourselves in front of it.

We've actually found a great deal of success with this so far. If a faculty member wants to use a movie on Kanopy they have been asked to request it either directly through the library or from the "Request Film<https://help.kanopy.com/hc/en-us/articles/218030598-What-is-the-Request-feature->" form on Kanopy's platform. We then check to make sure the film isn't available elsewhere before licensing it. If we decide to license the film from Kanopy, we simply use the up-front license order form<https://help.kanopy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002236634-How-do-I-order-or-renew-a-film-> that Kanopy has and order it; turnaround has been typically a few hours, but I would recommend planning for at least 24 hours to be safe.

As I mentioned earlier, we've had a great amount of success with this, saving over $3000 this semester alone. We even made it a policy from the start to accept every faculty or student request as long as it wasn't accessible elsewhere, so the $3000 only comes from preventing triggers* on films we already have available or purchasing an entire series in bulk.

In order to start this we spoke to Kanopy and asked them to turn off our PDA program. They weren't exactly thrilled about it, which was clear in a phone conversation we later had with our rep, but they turned it off immediately (sooner than we'd expected, actually) and have been absolutely fantastic in working with us on the up-front licenses since.

Our faculty weren't excited about the change at first either - they really enjoyed the ability to treat Kanopy like Netflix, especially when it came to situations where they needed a relevant film on the fly. That being said, after explaining the situation and working with them to get the films they needed accessible (if they weren't already triggered), we haven't heard any negative feedback. I should also add that handling requests from faculty hasn't been a huge issue for us (we're a smaller campus and I had time to manage the requests quickly), but I could see it being a bigger issue if you're already too busy. Make sure you have a plan for how to manage the requests if you decide to go forward with this route, especially if you're switching from the PDA program.

I think Kanopy is a fantastic platform. It really makes smaller educational documentaries easily available for a lot of people. Even after turning this off, we're still spending a large amount on the platform. We just have a lot more control than before, and it's helped with our planning and collection management.

- Tim

*An assumption we made was that any film requested would have been triggered. Clearly that's not always going to be true, but given the number of films that would have been triggered but not requested, I think it balances out.
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Tim Streasick
Electronic Access Associate
JASS and (Interim) History Selector
Mardigian Library
UM-Dearborn
Ph: 313-593-5567
streatim at umich.edu<mailto:streatim at umich.edu>
http://library.umd.umich.edu
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