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



E-books and interlibrary loan

Kari Paulson and Jens Vigen

Abstract | Paper in [PDF] Portable Document Format (PDF)
Presentation in Microsoft® PowerPoint® format

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.

 

 

 
  National Library of Australia Australian Library and Information Association International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions