Patron-Driven Acquisition of Publisher-Hosted Content: Bypassing DRM

Patron Driven Acquisition of Publisher-hosted Content: Bypassing DRM

The evidence is in: patron-driven acquisition promotes collection use. Patron-driven purchased eBooks were used three times more often and by more than twice as many people in a 2009 controlled retrospective study across five libraries on the EBL platform. Once seen as a heretical approach, the patron-driven model has now been embraced by all of the major eBook aggregators. Library interest and...

Patron-Driven Acquisition: An Introduction and Literature Review

Patron Driven Acquisition: A Model for Providing Complete Access to Electronic Content While Limiting Costs For Libraries

Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) is a hot topic in today’s library world. Driven by stagnant or dwindling library budgets, libraries – at first in the US, and now internationally – have been exploring new ways to offer their patrons – i.e. library users – access to the broadest range of high-quality content for research and teaching. Taking advantage of the increasing availability of academic co...

Patron‐Driven Acquisition Practices of U.S. Research Libraries: East vs. West

During the past few years, Patron Driven Acquisition, or PDA, has become the catchword at library conferences, increasingly promoted by some as the answer to shrinking budgets and the new normal for developing library col‐ lections. On one level, the debate over PDA is just an extension of the old question of just in time versus just in case collecting; however, technological developments have ...

Shared Patron-Driven Acquisition Within a Consortium: the OCUL PDA Pilot