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- Title
What Cost and Usage Data Reveals About E-Book Acquisitions.
- Authors
Carrico, Steven B.; Cataldo, Tara T.; Botero, Cecilia; Shelton, Trey
- Abstract
To better determine how e-book acquisitions might affect future collection development decisions, a team of librarians from the University of Florida (UF) launched a project to assess cost and usage of e-books purchased using three different acquisitions methods: e-books acquired in large publisher packages; single-title e-books selected through firm orders; and e-books purchased through two patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) plans. The cost-usage data were then sorted into three broad areas of subject disciplines--humanities and social sciences (HSS); science-technology-engineering-mathematics (STEM); and medicine (MED)--and the results were reviewed and summarized. The authors compared the cost-usage data of e-books acquired by the acquisitions methods across the three subject areas and describe how the findings are affecting current and future acquisitions, traditional collection management, and budgeting at UF.
- Subjects
LIBRARY acquisitions; ELECTRONIC books; ACADEMIC library collection development; UNIVERSITY of Florida; PATRON-driven acquisitions (Libraries); COLLECTION development in libraries; ACADEMIC library finance
- Publication
Library Resources & Technical Services, 2015, Vol 59, Issue 3, p102
- ISSN
0024-2527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5860/lrts.59n3.102