The IFLA Office for UPA and International Lending has recently established some guidelines for libraries sending ILL requests by email. The guidelines aim to support document…
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The IFLA Office for UPA and International Lending has recently established some guidelines for libraries sending ILL requests by email. The guidelines aim to support document delivery staff who send ILL requests by ordinary free from email messages, where the request details are given in the body of the message. The Guidelines are offered as support for existing national or regional practices, and aim to ensure that requests contain all of the required elements, set out in a standardised format which will help to speed up the processing of such requests.
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This review of the literature in interlending and document supply looks this time at recent published material in the areas of standards, ILL systems, unmediated document supply…
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This review of the literature in interlending and document supply looks this time at recent published material in the areas of standards, ILL systems, unmediated document supply, distance education and the concept of universal availability of publications. Articles on the various faces of electronic publishing and electronic document delivery abound, and these are also reviewed.
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E‐mail discussion lists have become an enormously successful forum for discussion among groups of like‐minded people, and a fair number exist in the field of interlending and…
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E‐mail discussion lists have become an enormously successful forum for discussion among groups of like‐minded people, and a fair number exist in the field of interlending and document supply. The paper takes a look at those which exist in this area, and highlights the benefits of subscribing to the various types of list such as regional‐based lists, specific product‐focused lists, and general interlending lists. Instructions on how to subscribe to each of the lists mentioned in the article are also given.
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Reviews recent interlending and document supply literature, with coverage of the following topics: why ILL requests fail; access versus holdings via electronic document delivery;…
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Reviews recent interlending and document supply literature, with coverage of the following topics: why ILL requests fail; access versus holdings via electronic document delivery; evaluating the various suppliers, delivery options, page formats, costs and speed for electronic document delivery; electronic document delivery as one of the ways libraries can service the needs of open/distance learners; and the problems of document delivery to and for developing countries.
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Reviews current literature relevant to interlending and document supply. Covers guides, directories and standards; surveys; statistics; OCLC; ILL management systems; online…
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Reviews current literature relevant to interlending and document supply. Covers guides, directories and standards; surveys; statistics; OCLC; ILL management systems; online searching systems; Red Sage; access versus holdings; copyright; availability of material; and the end‐user. Gives a brief résumé of publications under each of the categories.
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Reviews recently published literature in the field of resource sharing and e‐journal access. Considers recent articles on the value of consortial membership and licensed access to…
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Reviews recently published literature in the field of resource sharing and e‐journal access. Considers recent articles on the value of consortial membership and licensed access to electronic journals. Also looks at published articles in the area of aggregators, reference linking, performance measurement, document delivery in public libraries, and new trends and developments in a number of countries world‐wide.
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Reviews emerging trends and new challenges in interlending, document delivery and resource sharing, as written up in the recent literature. Focuses on the balance of providing…
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Reviews emerging trends and new challenges in interlending, document delivery and resource sharing, as written up in the recent literature. Focuses on the balance of providing access to journal articles via commercial document supply, traditional interlibrary resource sharing and access to publisher full‐text databases. Reference linking, aggregator services and the challenges of providing effective access to material in less developed countries are also considered
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Reviews current literature in the field of interlending and document supply. Topics covered include UAP, national library policy, public libraries, resource sharing, distance…
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Reviews current literature in the field of interlending and document supply. Topics covered include UAP, national library policy, public libraries, resource sharing, distance education students, electronic copyright management and charging between libraries.
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This paper aims to describe the transition of EThOS, the British Library’s E-Theses Online service, from its original role as a transactional document supply service to the…
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This paper aims to describe the transition of EThOS, the British Library’s E-Theses Online service, from its original role as a transactional document supply service to the service seen today where it forms part of the UK’s network of institutional repositories, open access and still-developing research funder mandates.
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The constituent parts of the EThOS service are described, and an analysis is given of the development of open access repositories, electronic theses and the way that PhD theses have become an important resource for cutting-edge research content for researchers worldwide.
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The value of doctoral theses for researchers continues to grow and be recognised. Many UK institutions have moved to mandatory open deposit of electronic theses, and many are digitising their older print thesis collections. Public funders are starting to track open deposit of the theses they fund; and research organisations are analysing the full UK metadata collection to understand trends in PhD research areas.