University Library DDAs: August 2022 update

Rebecca

Sep 2

August is normally one of the quietest months of the year in terms of activity on our two Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) schemes, but August 2022 was busier than usual: 83 titles were triggered for purchase, up from 58 in the same month last year. What had not changed was the breadth of material covered: everything from South Sudanese museum collections to 21st-century Indian literature to the American opioid crisis. The most popular publisher across the two schemes was Peeters (6 titles triggered), followed by University of Minnesota Press (5); McGill-Queen's University Press, State University of New York Press and University of Virginia Press saw four titles purchased each. (It was not only North American publishers that saw activity: titles were purchased from presses based in Australia, Cameroon, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Zimbabwe.)

A selection of the ebooks which we now own outright can be seen below (click here to skip to a list of titles with iDiscover links). As ever, if you have any questions, please do get in touch with the English Collections team (engcc@lib.cam.ac.uk).