The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announces the
publication of a new recommended practice, Demand Driven Acquisition of
Monographs (NISO RP‑20‑2014). Demand driven acquisition (DDA), also
referred to as patron-driven acquisition, is a method used by libraries
for collection development where monographs are purchased at their point
of need when selected by users from a pool of potential titles. NISO’s
Recommended Practice discusses and makes recommendations for publishers,
vendors, aggregators, and libraries about key aspects of DDA, goals and
objectives of a DDA program, choosing parameters of the program,
profiling options, managing MARC records for DDA, removing materials
from the consideration pool, assessment of the program, providing
long-term access to un-owned content, consortial considerations for DDA,
and public library DDA. Although DDA is more commonly used for e-books,
the method can also be applied to print publications and these
recommendations provide a single set of best practices for both formats,
with articulation of differences where they occur.
“Under a traditional up-front purchase model for monographs, the
acquisition process ends soon after the book arrives in the library,”
explains Michael Levine-Clark, Associate Dean for Scholarly
Communication and Collections Services at University of Denver Libraries
and NISO DDA Working Group Co-chair. “DDA, on the other hand, requires
long-term management of a preselected ‘consideration pool’ of titles
available for purchase. The process of acquisition evolves from one of
getting books into the collection to one of long-term management of the
discovery tools that allow for demand-driven access to monographs. The
guidelines in this Recommended Practice will allow libraries to develop
DDA plans for both electronic and print books that meet differing local
collecting and budgetary needs, while also allowing consortial
participation and cross-aggregator implementation.”
“DDA may disrupt the traditional scholarly communication supply chain,
therefore libraries, publishers, and aggregators must be committed to
working together to establish long-term sustainable models that
highlight mutual benefits,” states Barbara Kawecki, Director of Western
U.S. Sales at YBP Library Services and NISO DDA Working Group Co-chair.
“It is important that there is some free discovery without triggering
purchase, and that discovery is integrated in some way with other tools
in use by the library. Although DDA has currently been adopted primarily
by academic libraries, greater interest in and use of DDA by public
libraries is expected in the future and these recommendations should
work equally well for them.”
“There are many approaches an institution can adopt when launching DDA,”
states Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director. “This Recommended
Practice provides an overview of those options and concludes with
specific recommendations that give guidance to libraries, publishers,
aggregators, and vendors as they implement and manage their DDA programs.”
Demand Driven Acquisition of Monographs (NISO RP‑20‑2014) is available
for free download from the Demand-Driven Acquisition Working Group
webpage on the NISO website at: www.niso.org/workrooms/dda/.
Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson_at_niso.org
301-654-2512
<http://m.lib.uci.edu/>
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