<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Melissa</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Emily Judith Ray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ejray@ualr.edu" target="_blank">ejray@ualr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Melissa, <div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Emily<div><div class="h5"><br><br>On Tuesday, June 13, 2017, Melissa Belvadi <<a href="mailto:mbelvadi@upei.ca" target="_blank">mbelvadi@upei.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">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).</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">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.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">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.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">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).</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Do any of you do this? If so, for each of EBSCO and Proquest, how do you get that report?</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Thanks!</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Melissa Belvadi</div><div>Collections Librarian</div><div>University of Prince Edward Island</div><div><a>mbelvadi@upei.ca</a> <a href="tel:(902)%20566-0581" value="+19025660581" target="_blank">902-566-0581</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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