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title

All About Demand-Driven Acquisition

author

Cramer, Carol Joyner

abstract

This paper reports on a talk delivered at the Mississippi State University Libraries eResource & Emerging Technologies Summit (LEETS). The author introduces the concept of Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) for e-books and explains how it works. The author discusses predicting and controlling costs, as well as other implementation decisions. Finally, the author discusses the possibility of removing books from a DDA program and speculates on some of the effects of DDA on libraries and scholarly publishing.

description

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in THE SERIALS LIBRARIAN, 2013, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0361526X.2013.800631.

subject

demand-driven acquisition

academic libraries

e-books

citation

1 (issue)

65 (volume)

date

2013-12-16T19:50:03Z (accessioned)

2013-12-16T19:50:03Z (available)

2013 (issued)

identifier

Cramer, Carol Joyner. (2013, July). "All About Demand-Driven Acquisition." The Serials Librarian, 65(1), 87-97. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0361526X.2013.800631. (citation)

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/39095 (uri)

http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0361526X.2013.800631 (uri)

publisher

Taylor & Francis

source

The Serials Librarian

type

Article