8th Interlending and Document Supply International Conference, Canberra Australia 28-31 October 2003
 



ILL/DD in Iceland before and after nationwide access to 7.500 e-journals - the story so far

Þórný Hlynsdóttir and Þóra Gylfadóttir

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In late summer of 2001 Iceland gained national access to 3,400 e-journals in addition to 4.000 e-journals already available in 2000. This has given the whole population of Iceland opportunity to access full-text articles of over 7,400 journals, most in the field of science, technology and medicine (STM) via the Internet.

Scope: The paper will mainly be concerned with the effects of the national access to e-journals on interlibrary loans and document delivery, both at NULI and in Iceland in general. NULI has the biggest ILL/DD activity of a single library in Iceland, 23% are processed by NULI according figures from year 2000.

The paper will consider the number of ILL/DD article requests from teachers and students at the University of Iceland, to NULI and other Icelandic research libraries in the years 2001 and 2002, both borrowing and lending. Statistic can now show that the user groups that the paper focuses on are making more use of the electronic access to journals than others.

 

 

 
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