ProQuest has announced that it has grown the number of titles available through Access-to-Own to almost 400,000 and dramatically increased publisher participation in just eight months with its latest acquisition model launching next month. ProQuest developed Access-to-Own in collaboration with libraries and publishers around the world to provide a usage-based acquisition model that offers a balanced approach and a wider array of frontlist as well as backlist titles to libraries and the researchers they serve.
Access-to-Own will be available on ProQuest's Ebook Central platform that enables libraries to tailor their book acquisition workflows according to their unique priorities. Whether it’s run as part of Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) programs or in combination with subscription and perpetual archive models, Access-to-Own offers a middle ground between short-term loans and outright purchase, facilitating title ownership by applying budget dollars spent on ebook rentals to perpetual purchases. Access-to-Own is ideal for research institutions and academic libraries that want to employ usage-based purchasing to secure frontlist content and prefer that a greater proportion of their collection fund spend goes toward ownership rather than short term access.
ProQuest has already signed more than 205 publishers to its growing roster of Access-to-Own participants. Some recently signed publishers and distributors include Harvard University Press; Independent Publishers Group (IPG); Policy Press; Edinburgh University Press; University of Chicago Press; and Schweitzer.
Libraries will be able to purchase directly from ProQuest or participate in Access-to-Own through DDA programs via key partners, including Coutts/Oasis (early Q3) and YBP/Gobi (starting in late Q3-Q4 2016). Libraries interested in Access-to-Own should contact their ProQuest Sales Specialist or Content Workflow Consultant to get started.
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