Purchasing Options in Patron-Driven Acquisitions

A Novel Multiple Attribute Decision Making Framework based on Hamacher Operations in Patron Driven Acquisitions Mode of Library Management

As a fuzzy set extension, the hesitant set is effectively used to model situations where it is allowable to determine several possible membership degrees of an element to a set due to the ambiguity between different values. Some new hesitant fuzzy operational rules are introduced based on the Hamacher t-conorm and t-norm, whereby we present a multi attribute decision making method under hesitan...

Customer-driven Purchasing Empirical Applications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to illustrate application of a method for customerdriven purchasing. Design/methodology/approach A method for customer-driven purchasing was developed and applied within a research project using a combination of a multiple case study and focus groups. The research project involved six companies within different lines of trade and the method was applied to mo...

Patron-Driven Acquisition: An Introduction and Literature Review

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...

Food purchasing patterns in purchase-driven societies.

Since purchasing food is the primary if not exclusive means by which most of us obtain our food, an examination of food purchasing habits, especially in consumer-driven societies, is entirely appropriate. In this issue of Public Health Nutrition, two articles explore very different aspects of food purchasing habits. Using survey data from the Brisbane Food Study, Turrell and Kavanagh examine fo...