GOBI is our major monograph vendor. Books are obtained from GOBI in three ways:
For materials not available on GOBI, selectors can email eselect@mit.edu (ex: specialized materials like music scores or foreign language vendors). See How to Order Things link below for more information.
Members of the MIT community are welcome to suggest purchases for the collection.
More information, including a Fact Sheet for Selectors, can be found here.
Suggested Purchase Report (M-CSM-XSUG)
Alma Analytics report of titles requested by patrons and paid for with the Suggested Purchase Fund. Note: Must log into Alma BEFORE accessing report; use link above with the fund code M-CSM-XSUG.
For all of the collections listed below, the platforms contain a mix of books available through the EBA, Open Access, and books we have purchased as firm orders. To determine whether a book in Primo has been purchased or is available to be purchased through an EBA see this documentation that describes which Alma collection is used for discovery records, and which Alma collection is used for purchased titles from EBAs, as well as GOBI (single orders) titles.