Abstract
ABSTRACTDue to budget constraints and rising costs of short-term loans (STLs), the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries were forced to reexamine their demand-driven acquisition (DDA) program and try to find cost-saving measures. This paper provides details of a major assessment of KU’s eDDA program that was undertaken in order to ascertain whether recent changes to the program resulted in reduced costs and to look for future cost-saving measures. Three variables were considered: number of STLs before purchase, preferred access model, and access versus use by discipline. In addition, the first year of a collaborative eDDA program between KU and Kansas State University (KSU) is discussed. This joint program was also assessed for cost-effectiveness and in order to set a baseline for future assessment. We considered access versus use by publisher and by discipline and calculated cost effectiveness of the program for each institution.
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