Demand-driven Acquisitions Research Articles

A New Model for Demand-Driven Acquisition

Like other academic libraries, the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries has been looking for efficiencies to save money. One method of savings adopted by KU Libraries is a demand-driven acquisition (DDA) model for purchasing monographs. KU librarians were reluctant to endorse this new model until they were given the option to base DDA purchases on price. Working with YBP, a new DDA model was developed to allow subject librarians at KU to choose a price limit for purchases on approval. Any monograph over the price limit was loaded into the library catalog as a DDA. During the development of the new DDA model, subject librarians in science and technology and the social sciences agreed that electronic books would be the preferred format for the approval plan and DDA model. In this paper, KU librarians will map out the processes they used to rewrite their approval plan profile to incorporate DDA and e-preferred acquisitions.

NISO Reports: Updated Recommended Practice on SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding; New Authoring and Interchange Framework Standard; New Initiative to Develop Recommended Practices for Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) of Monographs; Process Begun for National Standardization of the 3M Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP)

NISO Reports: Updated Recommended Practice on SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding; New Authoring and Interchange Framework Standard; New Initiative to Develop Recommended Practices for Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) of Monographs; Process Begun for National Standardization of the 3M Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP)

Developing a Model for Long-Term Management of Demand-Driven Acquisitions

Developing a Model for Long-Term Management of Demand-Driven Acquisitions

Developing a Multiformat Demand-Driven Acquisition Model

This paper discusses a patron-driven acquisition program at the University of Denver. Instead of selecting books from YBP's slip approval plan, the Penrose Library will load MARC records for these titles and for a selection of electronic books from ebrary and EBL. All University of Denver students and faculty will be able to select the title and format (print or electronic) that best suits their needs, thereby allowing the library to expend its collection funds in a more user-oriented way. Through this demand-driven acquisition model, the library offers its users a much wider range of titles, while ensuring that more of the titles purchased are used.