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Demand-Driven Acquisition

Option to automatically remove DDA titles if price increases reach my set price limit

As eBook prices change, I would like titles in my DDA pool to be automatically removed whenever a price change pushes an eBook price over my set price limit. I would like to receive a notification by email when this happens so I can remove the tit...
Guest 15 days ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition Future consideration

Select differing models for Manual DDA

I want to choose different license models for manual DDA depending on the title I am adding. Currently GOBI allows one default license model.
Guest 15 days ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition Future consideration

DDA automatic removal of titles past a defined period

I would like to only include titles in my DDA that have been published in the last 5 years so I would expect titles beyond that to be automatically removed on a rolling basis and to receive an email with deletions to update my library management s...
Guest 15 days ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition Future consideration

Email us when DDA title is ready

We currently have to wait for a title to be added to our DDA profile and we don't get a message when it's ready so have to maintain manual checks/records. I understand that Mosaic should have a smoother process for DDA where hopefully it's ready o...
Louise Koch 14 days ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition Future consideration

GOBI DDA title removal

For anyone that has DDA set up in GOBI, it is easy enough to request to have a title manually added to a DDA collection. However, there is currently no way to manually remove it. It appears you have to contact support to have this done. Please con...
Laura Vogler over 1 year ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition Future consideration

Remove perpetual purchases from DDA pool automatically

If we purchase an ebook perpetually, we would like it removed from our DDA pool to prevent paying for the same item twice. Currently we do this manually. It would be great if GOBI could identify and remove these automatically
Guest over 3 years ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition Future consideration

Clearer DDA availability status

Library DDA general availability is often confused with local library's DDA program. Better clarification needed as to what the "Library DDA: yes" status means.
Guest over 2 years ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition Future consideration

Give us an email heads up of e-titles to be removed by publisher before they are removed

ProQuest used to do this. Maybe it is contractually disallowed, but if not libraries may want to add or trigger titles before they go away permanently on the EBSCO platform.
Guest over 3 years ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition Future consideration

Editing DDA titles

Enable ISBN searching in Active DDAs. This would facilitate streamlined weeding of the DDA collection. Currently, when I am removing a title I need to sort through the list. When doing an ISBN search (top search bar), I don't see an intuitive way ...
Guest over 1 year ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition Future consideration