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E-books and interlibrary loan
Kari Paulson and
Jens Vigen
Abstract | Paper in
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Paradoxically do not digital born
documents so far fit into the framework of interlibrary loan - probably because
these documents are much easier to exchange than the documents that
traditionally have been handled by libraries. The publishers have up to now
been excluded from the ILL circle, but try with the changing paradigm of
document delivery to get their share of the market by offering articles on a
'pay-as-you-go' basis, though for rates many times superior to what is being
offered by document delivery services operated by libraries. The librarians are
though prohibited by their contracts with the publishers to directly use their
electronic journal collections as part of their document delivery services.
This kind of policies give all kind of funny results and in order to omit the
rules electronic documents are now in many places being printed and then
scanned before being shipped off.
The electronic books are in these
days about to embark the academic library community and should with the
experiences gained get a better birth than what was the case for the electronic
journals, hopefully also from the point of view of interlibrary loan.
This paper will report on the
initial scenarios for integrating electronic books in the interlibrary loan
service, taking into account viable business models for all involved parties:
publishers, booksellers, libraries and end users. |