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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We also modified our DDA profile with YBP to exclude particular publishers who had raised their STL percentages significantly. We use both the Ebrary and EBL platforms through YBP; EBL had more options in their profiling to allow us to mediate STL requests at a certain price point in order for us to have more control over spending (our DDA program is unmediated.) Ebrary didn’t have these options, so that was where we modified our YBP profile to exclude publishers. I agree that publishers should see DDA programs as an opportunity to get more exposure for their publications, but I know they are concerned with the unpredictability of the model as far as their revenues are concerned.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Our overall DDA philosophy is to get as many ebooks as possible that might be of interest to our patrons, even in peripheral areas. We are heavily focused on theology and Biblical studies in our DDA profile, but have modified our program recently to allow more cognate areas; we don’t anticipate this will cost significantly more, since I think that if our patrons aren’t interested in the cognate areas, they simply won’t use the ebooks. The focus of our cost control efforts is on list price and STL costs – for us, it is more economical to buy the ebook after one STL. Looking at our usage statistics for the past couple of years, about 10% of our discovery pool of records gets some kind of use, including browsing, STLs and purchases. While excluding some publishers eliminates ebooks our patrons might otherwise be interested in, we need to be able to control costs in order to be able to offer DDA titles to our patrons for potential use.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Lisa Gonzalez</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Electronic Resources Librarian</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Catholic Theological Union</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">5401 S. Cornell Ave.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Chicago, IL 60615</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">773-371-5463</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:lgonzalez@ctu.edu"><span style="color:blue">lgonzalez@ctu.edu</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Eril-l [mailto:<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Melissa Belvadi<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 16, 2014 8:47 AM<br><b>To:</b> Mary Beeker<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] looking for group wisdom on Patron Driven Acquisition: limiting by publisher</span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We only limited out a tiny handful of "predatory" publishers whose names won't be mentioned here for fear of lawsuits, until last spring. Then, we were informed that a few publishers, including one major scholarly publisher who also won't be named, had significantly increased their "STL" price as a percentage of the book price to a level that we considered violates the entire point of STLs. So our response was to work with our PDA profiles, YBP, to exclude those publishers, and with the PDA book vendors to retroactively remove all of those publishers's ebooks from our existing set.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I strongly believe that we as a community need to send a loud and clear message to the publishers that if they engage in these practices that undermine these wonderful new technologies, they will lose, not gain, profit by doing so. They can hold us hostage to price increases in the journal sector of the industry, but not on the books. Being included in our PDA profiles should be considered by them a marketing privilege that we offer their products only if they deserve it.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Melissa Belvadi, UPEI</span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Mary Beeker <<a href="mailto:mbeeker@nmc.edu" target="_blank">mbeeker@nmc.edu</a>> wrote:</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Sorry if this isn't the best place to ask this question, please let me know if I should post elsewhere...</p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone share their philosophy/advice on including publishers in their PDA collection?</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">We've had some rude shocks seeing what is available in our new PDA collection. We're wondering whether to exclude publishers from the entire PDA profile, or perhaps to include publishers in certain call number ranges, but not in others (e.g. our clinical nursing section)</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">We're a community college, so we need some intro-level books, but reliability is key to us. </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">If this becomes an interesting discussion, I'm happy to collect responses and share them.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks all!</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">- Mary<br clear="all"></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888"> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">-- </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">Mary Beeker<br>Northwestern Michigan College - Osterlin Library<br><a href="mailto:mbeeker@nmc.edu" target="_blank">mbeeker@nmc.edu</a><br><a href="tel:%28231%29%20995-1015" target="_blank">(231) 995-1015</a></span></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>_______________________________________________<br>Eril-l mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">Eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.eril-l.org/listinfo.cgi/eril-l-eril-l.org" target="_blank">http://lists.eril-l.org/listinfo.cgi/eril-l-eril-l.org</a></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- </p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Melissa Belvadi</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Collections Librarian</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">University of Prince Edward Island</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> 902-566-0581</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>