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ILL/DD in Iceland before and after nationwide access to
7.500 e-journals - the story so far
Þórný Hlynsdóttir
and Þóra
Gylfadóttir
Abstract | Paper in
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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. |