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Re: partron-drive acquisitions Jan Szczepanski (06 Mar 2009 07:15 UTC)
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Re: partron-drive acquisitions Jan Szczepanski 06 Mar 2009 07:15 UTC
Some important libraries have turned down the Big Deals. I think they must have a lot of experience of patron-driven demand. What you are talking about is the expensive way for serial access. The cheaper way is interlibrary loans and in Europe we have Subito for that. And that's reason why the industry brought them to court. The competion was to cheap and effective for the market. My favorite library in Europe is the medicial library in Münster that turned down the Big Deal from Elsevier and instead just prefered the ones used, about 400 titles. And when the cost for free copies was higher than the cost for the journal they switched. The biggest problem I would say was that the most important, the last, always was delayed, because copies were made from the paper issue of the journal that always were distributed slower than the electronic copy. And the last issue is of crucial importance in STM. I'm not usually a friend of patron-driven acquistion because we don't buy things that interests just one patron we have to care for all. But in the case of Big Deals I'm very impressed by the German libraries that have turned down the Big Deals. The bottom line is of course money. If you can't afford "everything" you look for the second best and that is what the patrons wants. Jan Steven Harris wrote: > We've been doing lots of patron-driven acquisitions for books and ebooks. Lately, I've been mulling over this concept for serials. I know there are lots of vendors that offer a purchase on demand service: patrons have access to what they need and the library pays on an article by article basis, by the drink, as they say. > > My mini survey: what patron-driven models are available for serial access? Are you using a by the drink model or anything different? I'd love to hear about it. Thanks. > > Steven R. Harris > Director of Collections & Acquisitions > Services > University of New Mexico Libraries > 505.277.2586 > http://collections2point0.wordpress.com ( http://collections2point0.wordpress.com/ ) > http://www.retaggr.com/Card/srharris19 > > -- De åsikter som framförs här är mina personliga och inte ett uttryck för Göteborgs universitets- biblioteks hållning Opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the Gothenburg University Library Jan Szczepanski Förste bibliotekarie Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek Box 222 SE 405 30 Goteborg, SWEDEN Tel: +46 31 7861164 Fax: +46 31 163797 E-mail: Jan.Szczepanski@ub.gu.se