Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2017
Abstract
It’s 2017, and library patrons still have limited ways to access the text of articles behind pay walls. The current mix of subscriptions, interlibrary loan or document delivery, and pay per view is unsustainable for endangered library budgets, and thus is unsustainable for publishers. It’s time to begin leveraging the tools we use for e-books-- discovery services, demand-driven acquisition (DDA), and perpetual purchase-- and apply them to articles. After all, the distinction between a monograph and a serial is fluid. Books in series, book-length articles, article-length books, and special issues sold as monographs illustrate the folly of treating them as inherently different creatures.
This article presents our argument in favor of DDA for serial content, and also reports the results of related surveys we conducted.
Published In
Harwell, Jonathan H. and Bunnelle, James, "ATG Special Report — Purchasing Articles by Demand-Driven Acquisition: An Alternative Serial Distribution Model for Libraries" (2017). Faculty Publications. 147.
https://scholarship.rollins.edu/as_facpub/147
Publication Title
Against the Grain
ISSN
1043-2094
Included in
Collection Development and Management Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, Scholarly Publishing Commons
Comments
First published in Against the Grain, Feb. 2017, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 35-39, 43.