NISO/BISG 9th Annual Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape Access or Ownership: Evolving Business Models and Your Institution Access vs. Ownership eBooks: You can have both! Stacey Marien, Acquisitions Librarian, American University Library

1. Access vs. Ownership
Ebooks
You can have both!
Yes, you can!

2. Firm Ebooks - Owned
 Individual titles are ordered through Coutts, YBP, Publishers
 EBL, Ebrary, Ebsco
 Single user
 Multi-user
 Upgrade to multi-user
 PDF files – printed and bound, loaded onto our local server

3. Patron-Driven – Leased, Then Purchased
 Patron-driven plan through MyiLibrary (Coutts)
 Records loaded are based on Approval profile
 Titles that would normally go to collection managers as slips
 2 clicks into the title triggers purchase
 Deposit fund
 Monthly “invoice” of titles purchased plus deposit fund balance
 Change location code to auebook (leased) to auebook (owned)

4. Approval E-preferred - Owned
 2013, went to e-preferred approval for 7 funds codes. Education,
Economics, Foreign Language, Communication, Government, Public Affairs,
International Studies
 If ebook is released within 8 weeks of print, we get the ebook. Otherwise,
the print is sent
 2015, reverted to print for all funds except International Studies – budget
cuts

5. Ebook Packages – Owned
 Frontlists through Oxford, Palgrave, Cambridge
 Handbook series
 Bibliographies
 Standing Orders through Gale (Business Plan Handbooks) and Elsevier
 WRLC Springer ebooks

6. Ebooks for Reserves
 Kindle books – Amazon Whispercast
 One book, one kindle
 Ebooks available through Blackboard. Make sure these titles are multi-user

7. Not ebooks but Print on Demand Print
 Load records for 4 publishers.
 Also based on cost
 The patron selects the item for purchase
 Goes to Acquisitions queue in Oasis (Coutts), ordered as a regular title.
Patron notified when book is ready at circulation

8. For Fun!
How we purchase electronic resources at American University

9. Questions?
 Stacey Marien
 Acquisitions Librarian
 American University Library, Washington, DC
 smarien@american.edu