What do I need to know about the licensing and access models?

To aid faculty and staff in deciding what library resources to use in courses, we are utilizing several terms and descriptions of our content. There are two main pieces of information to determine best use: license and access models.

Library license types & models

• Owned: Library owns the license and has the right to display content even if publisher pulls the resource in the future. 
• Subscribed: Library pays vendor or publisher to display and make content available for a certain contracted amount of time. New items get added frequently, some content can be pulled by vendor or publisher.
• Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA): Library pays vendor or publisher to display content and that content is then triggered as a purchase depending on certain parameters such as number of clicks, number of view times or sessions. Allows Library to make more materials available and only buy what gets used.
• Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA): Library pays vendor or publisher to display content and that content is then triggered as a purchase depending on use. Allows Library to make more materials available and only buy what gets used.
• Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA): Library pays vendor or publisher to display content for a certain amount of money and at the end of the contracted year Library can buy materials that received high use. Allows Library to make more materials available and only buy what gets used.

Library access models

• Unlimited: Any number of users can concurrently utilize the resource.
• Multi-user: A certain number of multiple users can concurrently utilize the resource (set by the vendor/publisher). 
• 3 user: Three users at a time can concurrently utilize the resource. 
• 1 or single-user: One user at a time can utilize the resource. 

Associated risk

To assist in the decision making process of putting specific library resources in the LMS, we have assigned the following risk levels to specific database resources in the licensing FAQs. For example, if we can secure an owned unlimited ebook license, this scenario would be no risk. The library would perpetually own the book and an unlimited number of users can access at any time. This is the perfect scenario for course use!

 High Risk   

 Some Risk   

 No Risk