This document summarizes Tony Davies' presentation on ebooks at Swinburne University. It provides details about Swinburne such as its location in Melbourne, Australia, student enrollment numbers, and library collection statistics. The bulk of the document discusses Swinburne's transition to primarily ebooks, starting with a demand-driven acquisition model in 2006 and expanding to incorporate auto-owned titles in 2016. It analyzes spending trends and usage over time as different parameters of the demand-driven acquisition and auto-owned programs were tested and adjusted. The presentation concludes that the auto-owned model combined with ongoing refinements has helped reduce expenditures while maintaining a large collection of accessible ebooks.
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Ebooks at Swinburne
Mixing it up with DDA, STL & ATO
Tony Davies – Swinburne University of Technology
Charleston, November 2016
2. Melbourne
Australia’s second largest city
Population 4.5 million
World’s most liveable city – 6 years in a row!
Home to 8 of Australia’s 39 universities
Best coffee
3. Established in 1908
Became a university in 1992
23,000 FTE university
students
7,000 FTE vocational
students
3 campuses in Melbourne
1 campus in Sarawak
Swinburne Online
Swinburne University of Technology
4. Our library
2016 collection budget
AUD 6.9 million
95% spent on electronic
resources in 2015
91% of books are ebooks
About 60 FTE staff
5. 787,194 total book titles
(all formats deduplicated)
91,627 print books
714,531 ebooks
18,694 overlap P&E
Our book collection today
Print books
Ebooks
P + E
91% ebooks
12% print booksoverlap
6. Purchased 277,544 *
DDA unowned 267,843
Subscribed 169,144
* includes 16,381 DDA auto purchased
Ebooks by acq method
Auto Purchased Purchased
Subscribed DDA (not owned)
13. Swinburne’s DDA profile in 2006
No subject or publisher profiling
No date threshold
Excluded: fiction & non-English
Exclude duplicates of ebooks
Initial price limit of USD 175
Auto purchase on 4th loan
Launched July 2006 with 34,000 ebooks
18. Changes on 5 June 2015
Reduced our purchase price limit from USD250
to to USD225
Implemented an STL loan fee limit of USD40
Exclude content not available for unmediated
STL
These changes reduced our DDA pool from
219,000 to 181,000 titles
19. October 2015 –
EBL/Ebrary content merger
Analysis showed that 85,000 new ebooks
would be added to our DDA pool if we took
no action
20. More changes on 5 Nov 2015
Exclude books published ≤ 2004
Retained our DDA pool at about the same
number – but newer publications
22. 2015 DDA - expenditure, usage and
number of books
-
100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Ebooks
available
Usage
DDA Expenditure
23. Signed up as a
development partner for
ATO
Reduce STL exposure by
changing the auto
purchase point
2016 - ATO and rethinking STL
24. September 2016 profile changes
When an ebook is available under both DDA
and ATO - prefer ATO
Change the current DDA Purchase point from
purchase on 4th loan to purchase on 3rd loan
Change the ebook purchase price limit to
– DDA USD275
– ATO USD350
Increase STL 1-day price limit to US$50
Remove the current publication date threshold
(≤ 2004) for both options – ie no date threshold.
25. ATO went live on 5 Sept 2016
But only just…
First ATO loan on 5 Sept at 11.58 pm
First ATO purchase on 8 Sept
• DDA/ATO pool increased from 186,000 to about
270,000 ebooks