Is ILL Enough? Examining ILL Demand After Journal Cancellations at Three North Carolina Universities

Calvert, Kristin

doi:10.5703/1288284315297

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“…As the cost of journal packages increased, studies began to focus on whether or not cancellations of these packages would increase ILL usage. However, Calvert et al (2014) found only a 2 per cent increase in ILL requests, and Knowlton et al , 2015 found only an increase of 0.2 per cent.…”

Section: Survey Of Literature For Both Illiad and Get It Nowmentioning

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The usage of ILLiad and Get It Now at a US medium-sized academic library over a three-year period

Jaskowiak

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2016

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Purpose As medium-sized academic libraries’ budgets continue to shrink or cannot compete with inflation rates, document delivery options like ILLiad and unmediated Get It Now can play a prominent role in providing content lost due to the inevitable cancellation of serial subscriptions. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of using these two options in a US university. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines the usage of these two services for the three fiscal years following the implementation of Get It Now at Bradley University. Findings Questions addressed are as follows. How have they been used over the three-year time period? Which user status group has been using them, undergraduates, graduate students or faculty members? Which departments on campus have been using them the most? Originality/value This study is the first to look at the usage of Get It Now and ILLiad together over multiple years.

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Section: Survey Of Literature For Both Illiad and Get It Nowmentioning

confidence: 94%

The usage of ILLiad and Get It Now at a US medium-sized academic library over a three-year period

Jaskowiak

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2016

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“…Document delivery can provide researchers with access to any of the content we have cancelled, but we have lost easy and rapid access to content that might have been useful to our community. The literature indicates that there is little impact on document delivery when a big deal is cancelled (Calvert, Gee, Malliett, & Flemming, 2013;McGrath, 2012). Some students and researchers may be deterred from accessing this content using document delivery.…”

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Using Data to Break Apart Journal Packages

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Morgan

Alcock

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A journal cancellation survey and resulting impact on interlibrary loan

Nash¹,

McElfresh²

2017

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Objective: The research describes an extensible method of evaluating and cancelling electronic journals during a budget shortfall and evaluates implications for interlibrary loan (ILL) and user satisfaction.Methods: We calculated cost per use for cancellable electronic journal subscriptions (n¼533) from the 2013 calendar year and the first half of 2014, cancelling titles with cost per use greater than $20 and less than 100 yearly uses. For remaining titles, we issued an online survey asking respondents to rank the importance of journals to their work. Finally, we gathered ILL requests and COUNTER JR2 turnaway reports for calendar year 2015.Results: Three hundred fifty-four respondents completed the survey. Because of the level of heterogeneity of titles in the survey as well as respondents' backgrounds, most titles were reported to be never used. We developed criteria based on average response across journals to determine which to cancel. Based on this methodology, we cancelled eight journals. Examination of ILL data revealed that none of the cancelled titles were requested with any frequency. Free-text responses indicated, however, that many value free ILL as a suitable substitute for immediate full-text access to biomedical journal literature.Conclusions: Soliciting user feedback through an electronic survey can assist collections librarians to make electronic journal cancellation decisions during slim budgetary years. This methodology can be adapted and improved upon at other health sciences libraries.

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Is ILL Enough? Examining ILL Demand After Journal Cancellations at Three North Carolina Universities

Cited by 3 publications

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The usage of ILLiad and Get It Now at a US medium-sized academic library over a three-year period

The usage of ILLiad and Get It Now at a US medium-sized academic library over a three-year period

Using Data to Break Apart Journal Packages

A journal cancellation survey and resulting impact on interlibrary loan

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