Approval Plans

  • Approval Plan profile
  •  Types
  • Depends on Local Interests
    • ePreferred
    • Print
    • e-only
    • Approval book shelf
  • Role
  • Cost Benefit
  • Publisher Platform
  • Content of the Approval Plan Profile
    • Non subject Parameters
      • Geographical Locations
      • Multidisciplinary
      • Price Limit
      • LC Classification
    • Publishers
  • Benefits of the Approval Plan
  • Evidenced-based acquisitions (EBA), patron-driven acquisitions (PBA)
    • EBA - set amount paid to vendor; choose books at end of year
      • advantages -
        • contains costs
        • buy only books you want or that have high use
      • disadvantages
        • administratively difficult to manage 
        • takes time to select titles
        • usage based on only 1 year but it can take several years for patron to discover books
        • some years high use (100); next year may see low use
        • leaving collection building in the hands of patrons

Educational Resources

  • Textbooks
    • Depends on the Institution
    • Budget Ramifications
    • Textbooks available on institution's permanent license with publishers (e.g. Springer Nature)
  • Open Educational Resources (OER)
    • Also depends on the  institution
    • Initiatives to promote OER vary from one institution to another  (examples)
    • Grants
    • OpenStax
  • Instructional Partnerships
    • Faculty participation is crucial
    • Some examples of OER

Video

  • Engineering Case Studies (Alexander Street/Proquest)
  • JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments
  • Kanopy
  • YouTube