ER&L 2015
February 22–25, 2015
Austin, Texas
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Cool Britannia, Hot Statistics: Using Patron Analytics from PDA to Increase Book Budgets
Conference Track
1. Managing e-Resources & Licensing
Keywords
DDA, PDA, Demand Driven Acquisitions
Learning Objectives
Attendees will come away from this session with resources and ideas to address the complexities of maintaining long term funding for a DDA program by showing value for money to important stakeholders, primarily by using patron analytics.
Specific takeaways will include:
- Options for setting up patron analytics with existing ebook suppliers
- How DDA workflows affect user experience positively
- How to leverage analytics in order to increase DDA book budgets
Abstract
Using patron analytics from DDA, universities in the United Kingdom have been able to increase their book budgets by showing return on investment to important stakeholders.
