Good PDA or good PR?working with suppliers to evaluate the impact of PDA

Steve SharpResource Acquisition Team Leader

University of Leeds Library

COUNTER statistics (Release 1, 2006)

• COUNTER Book Report 1: Number of Successful Title Requests by Month and Title

• COUNTER Book Report 2: Number of Successful Section Requests by Month and Title

• COUNTER Book Report 3: Turnaways by Month and Title• COUNTER Book Report 4: Turnaways by Month and Service• COUNTER Book Report 5: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and

Title• COUNTER Book Report 6: Total Searches and Sessions by Month and

Service

COUNTER4 (2013)

• COUNTER Book Report 1: Number of Successful Title Requests by Month and Title

• COUNTER Book Report 2: Number of Successful Section requests by Month and Title

• COUNTER Book Report 3: Access Denied to Content Items by Month, Title and Category

• COUNTER Book Report 4: Access Denied to Content Items by Month, Platform and Category

• COUNTER Book Report 5: Total Searches by Month and Category

So why are we interested?

Coverage Budget Purchases Funding model

Trial 1 5 subject areas

£40k 617 titles purchased

Single fund

Trial 2 9 subject areas

£54k 1,151 titles purchased

9 subject funds

Trial 3 21 subject areas

£62k 912 titles (to date)

Single fund

PDA report

• [Sample PDA Report]

PDA Comparison Report

• Compares PDA purchases with non-PDA e-book purchases during the same period

• Allows direct comparison of usage• Easy to see if PDA titles are used more/same/less than non-PDA

purchases• Informs decisions about continued funding for PDA

• [Insert example of PDA Report here]

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together"

(African proverb)

Steven Sharp

s.l.sharp@leeds.ac.uk