An overview of commercial electronic document delivery suppliers and services

Price, Sheila; Morris, Anne; Davies, J. Eric

doi:10.1108/eb045520

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“…Needed materials can now be acquired quickly and economically with a better success rate. Technology has influenced document delivery activity in three ways: making document requests; processing; and providing documents (Price et al, 1996;Thompson and Horton, 1992). Abdullah (1995) noted that the average turnaround time for requests made to BLDSC from Malaysia improved from 12 days through normal mail to six days through the Internet.…”

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Resource sharing among agricultural libraries in Malaysia

Majid

Eisenschitz

Anwar³

1999

Library Review

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Investigates resource sharing activities undertaken by agricultural libraries in Malaysia. It was found that resource sharing was basically limited to interlibrary lending and document delivery activities. On the average, each scientist from the participating research institutions made 1.25 document delivery and interlibrary loan requests per annum. Nearly 74 percent of these requests were met from local libraries. The participating libraries preferred to make their overseas document delivery requests to the BLDSC. Only a limited resource sharing activity was observed between the participating libraries and libraries in the ASEAN region. Heads of the participating libraries were in favour of a “loose” resource sharing scheme where it should be at their discretion to decide with whom to share their resources and at what level. The study offers several suggestions for improving resource sharing activities among agricultural libraries in Malaysia.

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Resource sharing among agricultural libraries in Malaysia

Majid

Eisenschitz

Anwar³

1999

Library Review

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“…The Ei Reference Desk has since been refined and is now available as a commercial service with three facilities: Ei Page One database; EiOrder and EiView offering Internet delivery. Engineering Information Inc. also released a new Internetbased service called the Ei Village during 1995, designed to provide a wide range of bibliographic, documentary and expert-based information: this service is discussed in more depth in the supporting commercial services paper (Price et al 1996).…”

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“…Some projects, for instance those funded by the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), are at a very early stage in their development. This paper is further supported by a second paper reviewing commercial electronic document delivery services (Price et al 1996). …”

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An overview of electronic document request and delivery research

Price

Morris

Davies

1996

The Electronic Library

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Abstract: This paper presents an overview of past and present research projects associated with electronic document delivery. The paper briefly outlines the Follet Report and introduces the UK's Electronics Libraries Programme, including the recently funded Focused Investigation of Document Delivery (FIDDO) project at Loughborough University. Four research areas have been identified as follows: resource sharing projects; network communication projects; electronic scanning projects and electronic document delivery systems.Conclusions highlight the major impact that technological developments are currently having on this area, the need for librarians to reassess their role in the information chain, and the need for delivery systems capable of handling different formats and a wider coverage of material to satisfy requests.

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“…There are a number of services that enable an end-user to search a database, order and receive articles from his own desk, without needing recourse to a library or information service at all. A comprehensive and up-to-date review of commercial electronic document delivery services has been conducted by staff at Loughborough University (Price et al, 1996). Loughborough's``FIDDO'' Web site gives upto-date summaries and contact details for these services as well as providing information on all aspects of electronic document delivery ± available at http://dils2.lboro.ac.uk/fiddo/fiddo.…”

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End‐user document supply or who needs an interlibrary loans service? A special library’s perspective

Chambers

1999

Interlending &Amp; Document Supply

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Increasingly, services that were the preserve of the “traditional” library are being made more available to the end‐user. Many information suppliers are specifically targeting end‐users and offering them direct document access, retrieval and delivery. Where does this leave the information service? This paper outlines some recent developments in end‐user document supply and discusses advantages and disadvantages from both the user’s and the information professional’s point of view, relating in particular to the situation in the author’s own library. A number of services offering end‐user document supply are described. The changing role of the information professional in response to new developments is discussed and a compromise solution proposed whereby new technologies can be harnessed for end‐user benefit while at the same time still employing the added‐value that an information service can offer.

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An overview of commercial electronic document delivery suppliers and services

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Resource sharing among agricultural libraries in Malaysia

Resource sharing among agricultural libraries in Malaysia

An overview of electronic document request and delivery research

End‐user document supply or who needs an interlibrary loans service? A special library’s perspective

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