Preparing for the DLA
Practical implications for participating institutions:
This is a project and it does require participation, time, coordination and the provision of data. However involvement is not meant to be overwhelming and therefore there is some guidance available below on how to prepare for the DLA study. In addition please also read about what is required and when in the guideline time table.
To prepare, JISC Collections suggest that you:
1. Start looking at your circulation data for the equivalent print titles of the e-books in the project.
- How do you collect this data?
- Is it possible to provide this data for the last 3 years?
- Can it be broken down by day, week or month?
- Do you have different editions of the titles and can you collect the circulation data for these too?
2. How are you going to collect and record this data during the project?
- Can you start putting it into a spread sheet now?
- How do you make it practice that the data is input into the spread sheet each month and who is going to be responsible for this?
3. Have you had access to any of these e-books previously?
- If so, on what platforms and do you have usage statistics available that you can provide to CIBER for these titles?
4. Do you still have access to some of the e-books in the project?
- If so, are you intending to continue access to these e-books on a different platform?
5. What is the best method in your institutions to get staff and students to complete an online survey?
- Can you get clearance to send out an email on an all-staff, all-student list?
Please now read about what is required of the deep log analysis contact and when - the guideline time table