[Eril-l] Strategies for Ebook DDA selection?

[Allyson Ota]

Hi Francine,

Thank you so much! I was really interested in knowing how the selectors in
your library select titles for DDA, since we are all somewhat new to it. I
appreciate hearing your library's strategy to remove titles if they are not
triggered after a few years, and that you have a yearly removal, and focus
on purchasing newer titles.

Also, thank you for mentioning OA titles. I had not thought about that. Our
DDA is with EBSCO.

This is really helpful info.

Much appreciated,
Allyson

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Allyson Ota (she/they)
Electronic Resources Librarian

Kapiʻolani Community College Library

4303 Diamond Head Rd., Honolulu, HI 96816
(808) 734-9254 | allyson at hawaii.edu
library.kapiolani.hawaii.edu


On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 11:42 AM Francine May <fmay at mtroyal.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have the same concern but after an analysis we determined that the bulk
> of the titles that are added to the subscription packages we have are
> older, so if we end up with duplicates from the DDA program we are okay
> with that. Our thought is that we are paying for current access for our
> library users. We did modify our strategy somewhat, although it doesn't
> completely solve the problem, but we focus the DDA program on newer titles
> and have a plan to regularly remove DDA titles from our system if they
> haven't been triggered after a few years. We schedule a yearly removal of
> DDA titles to help ensure that we are not paying for titles that we already
> have access to (for example if we have an untriggered DDA record for
> something that is also available in a subscription package).
>
> We also had to manually identify the OA publishers and ask our DDA
> supplier to remove them as we already had access via DOAB. In a number of
> cases we had inadvertently purchased additional copies when users selected
> the DDA option instead of the open option to gain access. Our supplier
> (GOBI) let us know that they are not able to screen out OA publishers
> except on a publisher by publisher request process. So review of new
> publishers is also another task that we need to perform regularly.
>
> I would be interested to hear what others are doing to manage their DDA
> program too.
>
> Francine
>
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> On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 1:55 PM Allyson Ota <allyson at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
>> Aloha,
>>
>> Our library is somewhat new to participating in EBSCO's DDA program (or
>> any DDA ebook program). May I ask if any of you have collection development
>> strategies or processes for how your libraries select DDA titles that you
>> would be willing to share with our library?
>>
>> One issue we've encountered is that the titles sometimes appear in our
>> subscription packages after we've added the titles to our DDA, but I don't
>> know if that can be helped. And, perhaps that is fine, since in theory we
>> are only supposed to be adding titles we want our library to own, and
>> subscription titles are not forever titles.
>>
>> Any recommendations, policies, or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> Allyson
>>
>>
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>>
>> Allyson Ota (she/they)
>> Electronic Resources Librarian
>>
>> Kapiʻolani Community College Library
>>
>> 4303 Diamond Head Rd., Honolulu, HI 96816
>> (808) 734-9254 | allyson at hawaii.edu
>> library.kapiolani.hawaii.edu
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