Evidence Based Acquisition – The Alexander Street Press model and

beyond

Libraries and Learning Innovation, Leeds Metropolitan University

Julie Cleverley – Journals and Electronic Resources Manager

Leeds Metropolitan University

• Located in Leeds in the North of England • 22, 562 FTE students • 2 campus libraries - City campus and Headingely

campus • 1.5 million visits to the libraries per year • 361,549 books / AV items in stock • 60,264 journal and newspaper titles available • 99% of journal titles available electronically

e-Book PDA

• Inspired by Durham and Northumbria experiences• Coutts Information Services My I-Library model –

September 2011 to August 2012• Outright purchase (£15,000)• Platform fee (£300)• 2 x cost of hardback• Multi-user; EZproxy authentication• Targeted low scoring NSS areas – Health and Social

Sciences• Initial resistance

Coutts My I-Library

August 2012- July 2013 • Added Cultural Studies. Kept some Health and

Social Sciences • Spent £55,000 August 2013- May 2014• Added Sport. Kept some Health and Social

Sciences and Cultural Studies • Spent £18000

PDA statistics Aug 2012 – Jul 2013

• Total accesses: 8575

• Total titles purchased: 787

• Average number of accesses per eBook: 11

• Total titles browsed but not purchased: 480

• Average cost of each eBook: £88.94

• Total number of pages viewed: 136,802

• Average number of pages viewed per day: 375

Most popular booksTop 5 most popular books, sorted by number of pages viewed:1. Social Media (220 accesses, 2475 pages)2. Research for Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare (109 accesses,

1968 pages)3. Health Psychology (92 accesses, 1705 pages)4. Treatment Plans and Interventions for Depression and Anxiety

Disorders (38 accesses, 1421 pages)5. Personalisation For Social Workers: Opportunities And Challenges

For Frontline Practice (66 accesses, 943 pages)

156 books had 10 or more accesses. 54 had 20 or more accesses.

Elsevier Evidence Based eBook model

• 1st March 2013 – 31st March 2014

• 32,822 euro spent

• Bespoke Evidence Based Acquisition model for 2011, 2012 and 2013 published titles

• Subject areas: Computer science, Environmental science, Finance, Psychology, Health professions, Biomedical sciences, Forensics, Material science, Engineering, Earth and planetary sciences, Energy, Mathematics and Clinical Medicine

• No publicity. Loaded MARC records onto catalogue

Elsevier EBA:Top 10 most viewed eBooks Mar 13 – Mar 14

1. XBOX 360 Forensics 219 uses

2. A System of Orthopaedic Medicine (Third Edition) 215 uses

3. Project Management, Planning and Control (Sixth Edition) 121 uses

4. Performance Psychology 138 uses

5. Total Burn Care (Fourth Edition) 110 uses

6. Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals 107 uses

7. Hypertension: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease (Second Edition) 107 uses

8. Physical Rehabilitation of the Injured Athlete (Fourth Edition) 107 uses

9. Sustainability, Energy and Architecture 107 uses

10. Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools 85 uses

Purchasing decisions

• April 2014 - compared annual usage statistics, with individual prices and collection prices to make decisions on what to purchase

• Turnaways considered – 94 turnaways for one book

• Fair, consistent purchasing policy – mix of customer input (through usage) and academic decision making (purchasing decisions from librarians)

Video Stock Editing Project

2013 Video project at Leeds MetropolitanObjectives• “To identify and discard stock no longer

relevant to the curriculum for collection space planning”

• “To create a “living” collection where stock is relevant to current teaching or research requirements.”

Video Stock Editing Project• Identified last borrowed pre 2000 and pre 2009 titles

• Report pulled off total number of check outs for item since 2000

• Identified titles that could be bought in DVD – mainly films

• Topical titles – Panorama, Horizon – not available on DVD

• 5000 VHS videos altogether – only 21 on loan

• 2000 identified as no longer useful

• Loan usage and items put out for shelving very low

• Layer of dust on them

Time for a change

• Usage of VHS - very low• Growth in distance and online students • Cost issues – of DVDs• Leeds Met media player – on campus only• Off-air recordings – topical but limited currency• Academic staff negativity over video stock editing

project

Background

• Meeting with Alexander Street Press in May 2013

• Discussed the possibility of developing an acquisition model similar to the PDA models we’d been using with eBooks

• Success of eBook PDAs was one of the catalysts for developing EBA models in other resources like videos

• Had investment money for the minimum payment required

Why Alexander Street Press?

• Covered a range of subjects

• Complements our e-strategy

• Content about specialists and practitioners

• Unlimited users

• IP on and EZproxy off campus

• Flexible, accessible resource

News release: Alexander Street Press Grows Evidence-Based Acquisition Forms Agreement With Leeds Metropolitan University

September 10, 2013

• “It is fitting that Leeds Metropolitan University has made the strategic decision to use EBA to advance their streaming video holdings, particularly because this institution was instrumental in helping Alexander Street validate this new business model, which in turn helped make it available for libraries worldwide. “

Gareth Bish, UK and Ireland Sales Manager at Alexander Street Press

• “Access to this collection fits with our strategy of providing electronic access to established and innovative resources. The collection is already drawing interest and favourable responses from academic staff, who plan to use the material in teaching.”

Claire Williams, Head of Learning Resources at Leeds Metropolitan University

Alexander Street Press

• Architecture• Art• Business• Counselling and therapy• Dance• Economics• Education• Ethnic studies

• Ethnography• Health• History• Humanities• Law and public safety• LGBT studies• Literature• Opera

• Total spend £72,000• VAST collection – access to entire collection which includes

• Philosophy• Political science• Psychology• Religion• Science• Theatre• Women’s studies

Promotion to Academic Staff

• University’s Strategic Planning conference in summer 2013

• University wide new staff induction sessions• News items • Academic Librarian promotion – Academic

meetings• Post-Graduate Review • Academic staff embed the videos into course

modules on the VLE

Promotion to Students

News items on Library website

Promotion to Students

• Promotion on the I-Help desk

• Heads up training

• Student information literacy sessions

• Library inductions – Excerpt from a news reel of students in 1950s doing physical education used in a Library induction

• Students can embed video clips into their work put it onto course blogs

Evaluating impact

• Anecdotal evidence was collected through the Academic Librarians talking to Academic Staff

• “[Using Alexander Street Press] I’ve already found a number of really useful videos on High Scope that would be useful for my teaching.” – Lecturer

Evaluating impact

• Are collecting and collating monthly usage statistics which include:

• Collection usage• Title Playbacks by Collection• Title Playbacks by Subject

Total usage Aug 13 – Apr 14

Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13 Jan-14 Feb-14 Mar-14 Apr-140

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

40

7 5

135

33

63

354

257 261

Total number of playbacks Aug 13 - Apr 14

Most used collections

Psychological Experiments Online, Video

Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video

World History in Video

Art and Architecture Video

Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume 1

Teachers TV from Education in Video

Filmakers Library Online, Volume 1

Education in Video

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

12

13

17

19

20

22

26

29

30

30

39

44

44

52

72

Video collections with the highest number of playbacks Aug 13 - Apr 14

Most watched videos

46 views

40 views

33 views

15 views

14 views

15 views

20 views12 views

Future of Alexander Street Press EBA model

• Alexander Street Press EBA model is now a JISC deal

Future of Alexander Street Press collections

• “We are always looking to increase the global scope of content” – Alexander Street Press

• Asian Film collection – filmmakers around S E Asia

• New content – 10000 titles have been added since set up

• New subject areas – Engineering content now available, fashion later this year

• Discussions with Alexander Street Press over improvements to the EBA model and any subject areas they could investigate for us

What’s next for Leeds Met?

• More investment bid money to purchase more videos

• Targeted evidence based acquisition – negotiating with suppliers

• Buy top circulating print titles in electronic form and acquisition of specific electronic books

• Print driven acquisitions – triggers print ordering

• Bibliographic profiling

• Core text and book rentals