All About Demand-Driven Acquisition

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.