ebrary introduces patron driven acquisition model
Posted by: Sue Polanka
ebrary® announced that it has collaborated with librarians and publishers to develop a new patron driven acquisition (PDA) model. With ebrary’s implementation of PDA, libraries may create collections of titles of their choice, provide full access to end-users, and have titles automatically added to their permanent collection in real-time based on usage.
Key features and benefits of PDA from ebrary include:
- Authoritative titles from leading publishers such as ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, The McGraw Hill Companies, Palgrave Macmillan, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley. ebrary currently offers over 155,600 e-books for PDA, which may be previewed at http://site.ebrary.com/lib/pda.
- Robust title selection tools including the ability to select by subject, publisher, price, publication date, and other key parameters.
- Profiling tool that automatically identifies appropriate content for PDA collection.
- Ability to create and modify automatic notifications for newly available titles of interest.
- Triggering system based on real usage.
- Real-time delivery of titles.
- Fund code management.
- Free MARC records.
- Weekly reporting.
- Upcoming short-term loans.
- Upcoming integration with YBP.
