Speaker: Julia Gelfand, University of California Irvine
They had purchased the CRC ebooks from 2002-2012, but couldn’t continue due to financial constraints. They reviewed their priorities and options for cost sharing and access.
In 2013, they opted to go with 6 collections at the lower tier of access shared across a subset of campuses. In 2014, they opted to go an evidence-based DDA route in EngNetBase.
All new titles were added as they were released, and after the second use, in general it was acquired system-wide.
Campuses that had discovery systems added the titles, but there was no other deep indexing of the content.
The total spend was less than the cost of the package, but still generous and fit about what they expected on a title-by-title cost.
Speaker: Susan Sanders, Taylor & Francis
The publisher provided MARC records and usage data, and there was an agreed-upon spend but no deposit. They had trouble generating statistics for this collection specifically, both on a consortia level and at an institutional level.
One adjustment they needed to make was to extend access beyond the calendar year because 4th quarter titles didn’t have much time to be discovered.
