All About Demand-Driven Acquisition |
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| Authors: | Carol Joyner Cramer |
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| Institution: | 1. Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University , Winston-Salem , North Carolina , USA cramercj@wfu.edu |
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| Abstract: | This article reports on a talk delivered at the Mississippi State University Libraries eResource & Emerging Technologies Summit. 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. |
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| Keywords: | Demand-Driven Acquisition academic libraries e-books |
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