Abstract
In 2006 Swinburne University of Technology became the first library in the world to launch a large-scale implementation of a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) programme for e-books. At that time, the 34,000 e-books made available through the EBL DDA programme accounted for almost all the e-books available from the Library. In the intervening years the demand-driven collection has grown to almost 300,000 e-books but these now form only a component of a much larger collection of 765,000 e-books in total, acquired through a range of acquisition models. When changes in publisher charging models caused a large increase in short-term loan-based DDA expenditure from late 2014, the library took action during 2015 to put the DDA programme on a sustainable footing. Further changes were introduced in 2016 when Swinburne became one of the launch customers for a new DDA model developed for ProQuest’s Ebook Central platform called Access-to-Own (ATO). This paper describes the evolution of DDA at Swinburne and the early experiences of using the new ATO model.
Highlights
Swinburne University of Technology was established as a technical college in Melbourne, Australia in 1908 and became a university in 1992
While expenditure had increased across the board, the highest increase was in payment of short-term loan (STL) fees, which showed an increase of 117%
‘setting a dollar-based STL limit would allow us to reduce costs while retaining more available e-books’. These changes resulted in a modest 15% reduction of our available books to 181,000 titles but showed a much greater reduction in spending on our demand-driven acquisition (DDA) programme – expenditure in the months following these changes was about half of the same period in 2014
Summary
Swinburne University of Technology was established as a technical college in Melbourne, Australia in 1908 and became a university in 1992. With an enrolment of over 23,000 university students and a significant vocational education programme, it operates across three campuses in Melbourne with another campus located in Sarawak, Malaysia. For over a century Swinburne has committed to innovative education, strong industry engagement and social inclusion. In 2016 the Library collections budget was equivalent to US$5 million, with around 95% of expenditure going on online resources. In a ranking of Australia’s universities, Swinburne is placed at the median point both in terms of student numbers and in terms of the library collections budget
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