Our current DDA programme is set up so that the ebook is mediated after 3 short term loans (STL), then we will purchase this ebook at full price in most cases. We are paying STL fees plus the full eBook price. With ATO, we will be charged 55% of the cost of the ebook for the 1st use and another 55% for the 2nd use, then UC owns the eBook with perpetual access.
The trigger for this change is because Taylor and Francis one of our most heavily used eBook publishers is moving its current content away from the DDA model on 30th June 2017 but is making it available in the ATO model. CRC Press is also making their current content available only via ATO.
In a couple of weeks, about 5600 ATO ebooks from Taylor & Francis and CRC front list will be added to our library catalogue.
We will monitor ATO expenditure and review if the spent gets out of control.
Below is a link to a case study at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia which provides some insights into how ATO is working there.
https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.354/
Thanks for that update Wendy. For what it’s worth I think T&F is one of the better platforms we have at present – full book download without DRM and read online as well.
I am getting some strange screen display on my large PC monitor for read online (and sluggish to load whole book), and one day they may enable linking from text to indexes to make in-book navigation easy 😉
Dave Clemens
Thanks for your positive comment on T&F ebooks, Dave!
In fact, the ATO ebooks in T&F and CRC front list are still on ProQuest platform rather than Taylor & Francis’s. We made this change is because T&F implements a year-long rolling embargo on short-term loans for front-list content on ProQuest platform as of June 30, 2017.
I apologise for the confusion here.
Wendy Wu