Everyone has an imaginary ideal acquisitions workflow, right…right?

If you don’t have your own, you can use mine. To explain, this is an acquisitions model that would fairly balance the need of Libraries to be selective and judicious in allocating their limited budgets to resources, whilst also accommodating the need for Publishers and Aggregators to make profits. This is not inherently a cost saving model, more of a cost reallocation model allowing Universities to direct their spend in a more strategic way

This is where the Differential Model comes in, a model that allows spending to be driven organically by need, ensuring our resources are directed to where they can have the greatest impact. The core principle involves re-profile spending away from speculative, front-loaded methods and towards a system that aligns with actual usage

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