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Beyond Demand-Driven:

Incorporating Multiple Tools in a Consortial Collection Strategy

Karen Wilhoit, Wright State University

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OhioLINK Is:

• 90 Member Libraries• 16 public universities• 50 private colleges• 23 community and technical colleges• State Library of Ohio

• Over 600,000 Students, Faculty, and Staff

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OhioLINK Has:

• A History of Cooperative Collection Development• Most members use YBP as a primary vendor• Selectors use GOBI and the OhioLINK central catalog to

minimize duplication in our print collections

• A Tradition of Sharing Resources• Member libraries’ print collections are a shared state

resource• In 2012, “P-CIRC” delivered over 600,000 itmes at a cost

of just under $ 1 million

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E-Books Don’t Fit the OhioLINK Model Because:

AN INDIVIDUAL INSTITUTION’S PURCHASES (TYPICALLY)

CAN’T BE SHARED

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E-Books: The OhioLINK Response (A History)

• DDA:• NetLibrary

• Rental:• Safari

• Purchase:• Oxford Scholarship Online• Springer• Wiley

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ITN Issued April 2011

• Aimed to“Explore Mechanisms to Purchase E-book Content That Would Be Made Available to All Consortium Members.”

• Combined Community Funds to Create a Funding Pool• YBP/Ebrary Response Led to the Development of the

Current OhioLINK Pilot Project

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Pilot Vision:

• E-books Purchased Must Be Available to All Consortium Members

• Unlimited Use• Multiple Publishers• Profiled Selection• DDA component

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Pilot Implementation:

• Three Publishers• Ashgate/Gower (ebrary platform)• Rowman & Littlefield/Altamira/Scarecrow (ebrary platform)• Cambridge (publisher platform)

• Three Collecting Methods• Subject-based purchase• Profile-based purchase• DDA

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Purchases to Date:

• Profiled Purchases:• Ashgate: 180 titles• Rowman & Littlefield: 75 titles• Cambridge: 66 titles

• DDA Pool:• Ashgate: 117 titles; 19 purchases• Rowman & Littlefield: 88 titles; 24 purchases• Cambridge: not yet implemented

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Usage To Date: Ebrary Platform (total/from DDA)

Month Titles Available

Views Copy/Print/ Download

Sessions

April 2013 53 164 0 49

May 2013 74 289 0 96

June 2013 96 557 / 180 32 / 22 140 / 43

July 2013 142 2054 / 819 10 / 2 213 / 77

August 2013 186 1387 / 373 70 / 66 415 / 72

September 2013

385 3185 / 1059 211 / 9 549 / 100

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Usage to Date: Cambridge Platform

Month Titles Available Downloads (Counter BR2)

July 2013 8 12

August 2013 10 11

September 2013 58 20

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Next Steps:

• Evaluation of Pilot Project• Usage• Expense• Comparison with other OhioLINK e-book packages

• Possible continuation, modification or expansion of pilot• DDA only? No DDA? Profiling method?• Incorporate short-term loans?• New publishers?• Additional subject areas?

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For More Information:

karen.wilhoit@wright.edu