The University of South Carolina currently purchases books authored and edited by our faculty. Unless requested, we do not purchase faculty-authored book chapters. We use two approaches, first we have a blanket plan with our University Press whereby we receive a copy of every title published. Second we have an approval plan setup with GOBI scoped to find Univ of SC affiliated authors but excludes anything published by our University Press (to avoid duplicates). As others have noted, this doesn’t catch absolutely everything but it casts a wide enough net that we get the vast majority of faculty published monographs.
Christee
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Subject: [ALCTS-acqnet] Fw: [ALCTScentral] Acquisition program for faculty-authored books
Dear colleagues,
UConn Library is planning a program to start systematically acquiring UConn faculty-published books (monographs) for inclusion in our collections. Does your library run such a program? How is it scoped, e.g., do you buy books where your faculty contributed only a chapter? How do you obtain lists of faculty-authored works? Any tech specs would be very helpful, if you’re willing to share.
Regards,
Michael Rodriguez (he/him/his)
President, ACRL New England Chapter
Collections Strategist
University of Connecticut Library
369 Fairfield Way U-1005B | Storrs, CT 06269
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Received on Fri Aug 09 2019 - 08:00:00 EDT