TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence-Based Acquisition
T2 - A Real Life Account of Managing the Program Within The Orbis Cascade Alliance
AU - Robbeloth, Hilary
AU - Ragucci, Matthew
AU - DeShazo, Kristina
N1 - Funding Information:
The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a library consortium of 39 academic libraries in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Its members are very diverse institutions of higher education, including seven community colleges, 17 private four-year colleges, 14 public four-year colleges (large and small), and one health sciences institution. The Orbis Cascade Alliance provides information services to approximately 275,000 students and is funded by membership dues. The consortial acquisitions programs are thus limited by the budgets of the libraries and campuses.
Publisher Copyright:
©, Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC © 2017 Hilary Robbeloth, Matthew Ragucci and Kristina DeShazo.
PY - 2017/11/17
Y1 - 2017/11/17
N2 - In 2015 the Orbis Cascade Alliance investigated a consortium wide evidence-based acquisition (EBA) model to incorporate into its established eBook program, and began a pilot of Wiley’s Usage Based Collection Management Model. EBA is an acquisition model that grants library patrons access to a title list over an agreed-upon time period for a pre-negotiated amount of money, and titles from that list are then selected for purchase based on the evidence of usage from the initial access period. This article shares the consortium’s experiences evaluating usage, managing titles and records, controlling duplication, predicting costs, and the inclusion of MARC records to enhance discoverability.
AB - In 2015 the Orbis Cascade Alliance investigated a consortium wide evidence-based acquisition (EBA) model to incorporate into its established eBook program, and began a pilot of Wiley’s Usage Based Collection Management Model. EBA is an acquisition model that grants library patrons access to a title list over an agreed-upon time period for a pre-negotiated amount of money, and titles from that list are then selected for purchase based on the evidence of usage from the initial access period. This article shares the consortium’s experiences evaluating usage, managing titles and records, controlling duplication, predicting costs, and the inclusion of MARC records to enhance discoverability.
KW - Academic libraries
KW - Collection development
KW - E-books
KW - Evidence-based acquisition
KW - Resource discovery
KW - Vendor-supplied records
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U2 - 10.1080/0361526X.2017.1388331
DO - 10.1080/0361526X.2017.1388331
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85038022072
SN - 0361-526X
VL - 73
SP - 240
EP - 247
JO - Serials Librarian
JF - Serials Librarian
IS - 3-4
ER -