Aquisition Models
Patron Driven
from Washington
State Univ.
Dallas
from Barbara Fister
What troubles me is the rush, in the name of improving the
"user experience," to copy the model for digitization that
we've endured with journal content. Libraries are beginning to
outsource book selection by offering vast aggregated catalogs
of e-books to their users and letting them pick what they want
on the fly. We did this before with journal content, and while
it provides a seemingly rich "all you can eat" buffet of
options, it has left us owning nothing, selecting nothing,
doing nothing but negotiating licenses and trying to make the
buffet of options accessible. We have learned the hard way how
much the "all you can eat" practice costs, in every sense of
the word, and I don't want to make the same mistake with
monographs.
Subscription
- Springer for journals and ebooks
Problem: there's a lot of junk in here. In order to get the
good stuff you have to sift through all the trash (or at least
the not really wanted stuff)
"freemium" models
Collective Aquisition
(Production of scholarly monographs was funded directly by
libraries) This is an open access model
Bounty Model
look at this: http://www.schneier.com/paper-street-performer.pdf