Overlap Analysis: A Case Study

Abstract

In a landscape of uncertain budgets, it is more important than ever that libraries make the best decisions for their collections. Overlap analysis is an essential part of that decision-making process. In the previous decades, overlap analysis and tools have evolved to meet the challenges associated with analyzing today’s complex resources. This case study outlines the overlap analysis workflows and tools utilized by the University of Arkansas Libraries. The paper also discusses the Libraries’ processes for creating overlap reports for both full-text and citation-only resources and provides an appendix that details how the Libraries completed select functions outside of vendor-supplied tools.

Keywords:

• Alma
• 360 core
• overlap analysis
• overlap reports
• overlap tools
• gold rush decision support

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge Charles Sabo and Sierra Marklevits for reviewing both the flowchart and appendix for accuracy and usability.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).