1. Five College JSTOR DDA Pilot
Leslie Horner Button
Associate Director for Library Services
UMass Amherst Libraries
June 26, 2016

2. Five College Consortium

3. Context Total Student FTE: >36,000
Amherst (AC) ,792
Hampshire (HA) ,492
Mount Holyoke (MH) ,189
Smith (SM) ,760
UMass (UM) 27,800
Long tradition of cooperation (40+ years)
Shared online catalog
YBP print approvals plans at MH, Smith and UMass
Policy to avoid unintentional monographic duplication

4. Wading into the DDA pool
Motivators and goals:
Expand e-resource access
Increase available titles across consortium
Awareness that 40% of print monographs purchased in recent years do not circulate
24/7 access
Distance education programs (UM)
Buy what faculty/students use not what they might use
Streamline workflow
Budget constraints not a consideration when starting pilot!

5. Why JSTOR Informed by experience with EBL DDA pilot
JSTOR program aligned with desired ‘features’:
DRM free
No STLs; purchases triggered by use
High quality content
ILL at chapter-level
Stable content
Availability of MARC records

6. Launch – September 2015
Allocated $25K for initial pool funding through existing cost-sharing model (11ths formula)
Loaded over 40,000 records into catalog/discovery systems mid-September
Imprints – 2005+
De-duplicated against EBL DDA records, but not against print or ebrary Academic Complete

7. User Response? No promotion Wildly popular!
Spent initial pool in 1st 6 weeks (yikes!)
Initially Smith had highest use eventually surpassed by UMass

8. JSTOR Use as of May 2016*

9. Purchases and Costs

10. JSTOR Expenditures by Institution

11. Adjustments and Desire Enhancements
Expended $117,081 (Sep 2015-May 2016)
Spending much higher than anticipated: how to adjust to manage that!
Administrative interface for JSTOR ebooks (in development) to expand ability to analyze use
Notification process when content removed
No multiplier but required to purchase 5 copies

12. Next Steps Pilot to continue for another semester
May need to adjust ‘profile’ to manage spending
Re-evaluate consortia cost-sharing formula
Await administrative dashboard – want to analyze use via Tableau by subject, institution, and more!
JSTOR overlap analysis of print holdings an e- books in pool – want to better understand user preference

13. Recommendations Be clear about goals
Ask for expenditure estimates to plan budget
Assess use to inform adjustments
Be willing to adjust as needed!

14. Questions??
*Thanks to Rachel Lewellen, UMass Amherst Libraries Assessment Librarian, for tableau analysis and visualization graphs