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Brief Background

Patron Driven Acquisition and STM Content ALA Midwinter 2011 Matt Barnes Vice President Academic Sales mbarnes@ebrary.com. Brief Background. ebrary provides preview access to ebook titles of a library’s choice. Purchases are triggered based on usage. Pilot version: Sept. 2009 to Sept. 2010

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Brief Background

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  1. Patron Driven Acquisition and STM ContentALA Midwinter 2011Matt BarnesVice President Academic Salesmbarnes@ebrary.com

  2. Brief Background • ebrary provides preview access to ebook titles of a library’s choice. • Purchases are triggered based on usage. • Pilot version: Sept. 2009 to Sept. 2010 • Product version: Launched October 15th Generic PDA Process Free MARC records Provided Library is invoiced for triggered titles Patrons ‘trigger’ some titles Non-owned titles selected Titles enabled on Library ‘channel’

  3. Discussion Question 1 What has been the scale of PDA in the sciences in research libraries?

  4. STM Sales Overall – FY10

  5. PDA Title Selection vs Purchases STM accounted for 30% of what selectors added to their PDA pilot program STM accounted for 26% of what Patrons ‘triggered’ during ebrary’s PDA pilot

  6. PDA Title Selection vs Purchase STM accounted for 31% of what selectors added to their product PDA program STM accounted for 20% of what Patrons have ‘triggered’ thus far with ebrary’s product PDA

  7. Discussion Question 2 Has PDA affected sales of books in the sciences?

  8. PDA as a % of Sales • Pilot PDA was purposely limited • Product PDA only available since Oct 15th However… • PDA equaled 8 percent of FY10 perpetual title revenue

  9. ebrary customer survey Jan 2010 Content Selection • 80% view PDA as fitting in the CD strategy. Few believe it will replace selectors • 50% (75% ARL) want PDA integrated with book vendor • Most libraries plan to start with 10 to 20 percent of their budget

  10. PDA Popularity Contest

  11. Discussion Question 3 Have libraries been selecting one format (print/electronic) over another? Or a combination of both?

  12. Ebook Adoption Survey: Over 50% of patrons often or very often prefer ebooks to print books

  13. Discussion Question 4 Will PDA influence scholarly publishing in the sciences in the future?

  14. Ebrary customer survey Jan 2010 Key Drivers • 70% (80% ARL): Putting more content in front of patrons • 30% (20% ARL): Cost savings • 30% (43% ARL): Saving selector time

  15. Questions Publishers: Leslie Lees Vice President Content Development leslie@ebrary.com Libraries: Matt Barnes Vice President Academic Sales mbarnes@ebrary.com

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