Abstract
Key points The Library Acquisitions Patterns (LAP) project examines acquisitions patterns across 124 US higher education institutions in FY2017 and a subset of 51 institutions over fiscal years 2014–2017. The report began as a study of Amazon's impact as an academic library vendor, but expanded into a broader study of the purchasing of individual print and e‐book titles within a specific price range across all vendors. The project uses data provided by academic libraries that use Ex Libris' ALMA integrated library system and OCLC's Worldshare Management Services (WMS); these systems do not allow users to create customized fields of data and so, theoretically, would provide more compatible data. The report's strength is in defining high‐level acquisition patterns across academic libraries, vendors, and broad disciplinary fields; the analysis and findings are not granular. The authors believe their report provides one of the broadest overviews of acquisitions patterns of US academic libraries than has ever been conducted to date; there is no reason to doubt them. LAP demonstrates a methodology for study acquisitions and points to numerous other avenues of potential research.
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