Document Delivery: A Comparison of Commercial Document Suppliers and Interlibrary Loan Services

Kurosman, Kathleen; Durniak, Barbara

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“…Our experience indicates that use of both traditional interlibrary loan and document suppliers is a necessity in today’s interlibrary loan unit, although reliance on a single document supplier is not feasible at this time. Kurosman and Durniak[14] reported that traditional ILL was the more cost‐effective and quicker method of obtaining articles not owned by their library. Their research focused on requests from an undergraduate, liberal arts college.…”

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“…Turnaround time for traditional interlibrary loan requests ranged from four to 60 days with a median of 12 and a mean of 14.6 (Figure 7). Kurosman and Durniak[14] in their study of document suppliers in OCLC found that some suppliers took on average 22 days to fill a request. The SIUC interlibrary loan unit relies on its interlibrary loan reciprocal libraries to fill rush requests.…”

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Serial cuts and interlibrary loan: filling the gaps

Kilpatrick

Preece²

1996

Interlending &Amp; Document Supply

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The Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) Library, which is a member of the Association of Research Libraries with holdings exceeding 2,000,000 volumes and current serial subscriptions numbering more than 14,000, intended to serve a constituency of 25,000 graduate and undergraduate students and 5,000 faculty and staff. Documents how in fiscal year 1990, financial exigency resulted in the cancellation of 1,241 serial titles at the library for a saving of US$233,322.80. Describes how a review of the titles cancelled revealed a high percentage of international subscriptions; thus a major concern of librarians and local scholars was the potential impact that these cancellations might have on the availability of these materials for research. Shows how the SIUC interlibrary loan (ILL) staff has attempted to make the cuts reasonably transparent to the user by tapping traditional and non‐traditional sources to fill the requests produced by these cuts; such that in 1993 ILL made a commitment to integrate document delivery (UnCover, British Library Document Supply Centre, UMI and others) into its standard routines. Assesses the full impact of the cuts four years after the cancellation project. Examines the impact of the 1990 serials cancellations on ILL and the ILL response. Analyses ILL serial requests for the cancelled titles generated during a six‐month period in 1994, looking at availability through document delivery suppliers, cost of acquiring the articles, turnaround times and impact of ILL workload.

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Serial cuts and interlibrary loan: filling the gaps

Kilpatrick

Preece²

1996

Interlending &Amp; Document Supply

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“…Many such firms have made a big pitch for their quicker response time, even though that does not always work out in practice [12,13]. Others have built their services on existing publications, e.g.…”

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Interlibrary loan and document delivery: costs and fees

Martin¹

1996

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Presents a comparison between the two modes of information delivery and discusses the costs involved, along with their place in the library budget. Cost recovery has become a hot issue, but must be considered within the library's mission. Considers various responses and their consequences, including the results of using commercial services to meet library goals. Offers a methodology for determining the library's policy decisions. Legal and financial ramifications are included in this consideration. Recommends careful examination of goals and objectives in setting into place either procedure.

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“…Although Penn State has an efficient, centralized ILL service (and one study has suggested that traditional ILL is just as effective and efficient a means of obtaining access to articles as CDD 9 ) the ILL staff recently have encountered increasing workloads without corresponding increases in personnel. In 1993, impending serials cancellations that would surely increase ILL workloads and perhaps decrease ILL speed and efficiency gave several of the other Penn State subject libraries good reason to test the feasibility of using CDD as a way to improve access to serial publications.…”

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Can Document Delivery Compensate for Reduced Serials Holdings? A Life Sciences Library Perspective

Hughes

1997

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Access versus ownership is the new dilemma facing most librarians in view of the rising costs of serials and not equally increasing budgets. But, is giving access to articles through document delivery really a viable alternative to journal ownership? The Life Sciences Library at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, decided to test the viability of using commercial document delivery as compensation for discontinued ownership, as a complement to ownership, and as a supplement to ownership by providing access to cancelled, owned-but-unavailable, or never-owned journals through a commercial document delivery service. This article documents the evolution of that procedure and the results of the project.

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Document Delivery: A Comparison of Commercial Document Suppliers and Interlibrary Loan Services

Cited by 17 publications

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Serial cuts and interlibrary loan: filling the gaps

Serial cuts and interlibrary loan: filling the gaps

Interlibrary loan and document delivery: costs and fees

Can Document Delivery Compensate for Reduced Serials Holdings? A Life Sciences Library Perspective

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