UConn Libraries PDA program is quite successful from an acquisitions perspective, but access to DRM-encased e-books is a less than ideal user experience. This presentation describes how UConn Libraries worked to provide access to thousands of DRM-free e-books while only purchasing titles with highest use.
ER&L 2014: DDA 2.0 Evidence-Based Selection of E-Books
1. DDA 2.0: Evidence-Based Selection of E-Books
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2. UConn Libraries PDA program is quite successful from an
acquisitions perspective, but access to DRM-encased e-
books is a less than ideal user experience. This
presentation describes how UConn Libraries worked is
working to provide access to thousands of DRM-free e-
books while only purchasing titles with highest use.
9. “Thanks very much for these links. However, I must share
my feedback that this e-reader format is quite possibly
the worst publication format that I have yet come
across. In printing off the full chapters I wanted, some
suddenly were truncated and every one had many page
duplications, probably a result of subsections being
defined part way through the page. I’m sure that this
affected the number of pages I was allowed to print off
too.
The normal SpringerLink format would have been a
thousand times better. I take what I can get, of course.” Assistant Professor Jonathan L Klassen
Molecular and Cell Biology
February 21, 2014
16. Current Profile Specs:
Books Over $100
Imprint of 3 Years to Present
Excludes Textbooks
3 Short Term Loans, 4th Triggers Purchase
Percent Use
by Publisher
July 2011 –
December 2013
Taylor & Francis
29%
Wiley
16%
Springer
10%
Elsevier
7%
Cambridge Univ.
Press
4%
Oxford Univ.
Press
3%
ABC-CLIO
2%
17. Taylor and Francis
24%
Wiley
23%
Elsevier
11%
Springer
6%
Cambridge Univ. Press
5%
Oxford Univ. Press
4%
De Gruyter
3%
Current Profile Specs:
Books Over $100
Imprint of 3 Years to Present
Excludes Textbooks
3 Short Term Loans, 4th Triggers Purchase
Percent $pend
by Publisher
July 2011 –
December 2013
18. Current Profile Specs:
Books up to $99.99
Imprint of 3 Years to Present
Excludes Textbooks
3 Short Term Loans, 4th Triggers Purchase
Wiley
17%
Palgrave
Macmillan
9%
Cambridge Univ.
Press
6%
Princeton Univ.
Press
5%
Elsevier
4%
Univ. of Chicago
Press
4%
Oxford Univ. Press
3%
Percent of Use
by Publisher
July 2011 –
December 2013
20. DDA 2.0
Evidence-Based Acquisition of E-Books
• Library pays a minimal deposit for 12-months
of access to all of a publisher’s DRM-free e-
books on the publisher’s platform
• Library and publisher negotiate a minimum
spend to be paid at end of 12 months
• Library activates access to e-books (loads
MARC records, etc.)
• Library analyzes use at end of 12 months and
purchases e-books with highest use to meet
or exceed minimum spend.
• Access to unpurchased e-books ends.
• Library applies usage statistics gathered to
help inform next fiscal year’s budget
allocations.
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23. Licensing Woes
Funding determined
/ Price negotiated
Faculty request
curricular and/or
research need
Does vendor accept
required CT contract
terms?
Need for e-resource
confirmed
Yes and
under
$3,000
Resource not
acquired
Forward license
agreement and
justification of need for
acquisition to CT Attorney
General / UConn Office of
General Council for AG
Review
Proceed with
license
negotiation*
Successful negotiating
complete?
Vendor signs
documents
• License Agreement
• Ethics Forms+
• Signature Authority
UConn countersigns
license agreement
per signature
authority
designation policy
No
Invoice received and
payment processed
Resource access
activated
Hard copies filed and to
AG/OGC if AG/OGC
reviewed
(Records Retention:
term of license +7 years)
Signed documents
added to CORAL
AG/OGC signature if
AG/OGC reviewed
license
November 12, 2013
Yes and
over $3,000
Signed documents
added to KFS
+Greater than
$50,000, Less than
$500,000:
OPM 1 and 5
Form C
+Greater $500,000:
OPM 1, 5,6, and 7
Form C
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