Open access and document supply

Abstract

International audiencePurpose– This paper aims to provide an overview and update of what one actually knows about the impact of open access on inter-lending and document supply.Design/methodology/approach– A review of recent papers, published after the Berlin Declaration on Open Access in 2003.Findings– Everything seems to oppose document supply and open access. Open access has contributed to the recent decline of interlibrary loan (ILL) and document supply requests but is not the only reason and probably not the most important. Open repositories and open-access journals have the potential to substitute ILL and document supply; yet for different reasons, including legal compliance, this substitution remains of limited interest. ILL and document supply institutions have started to integrate open access into their workflow and service provision in different ways, and the paper provides a conceptual framework with some perspectives for further service development.Originality/value– Paradoxically, relatively few papers make the link between open access and document supply, with empirical and/or conceptual elements. This paper proposes a synthesis and opens perspectives for future development and research

The current phase of social sciences research: A thematic overview of the literature

“…The world of electronic publishing has added free or open-access publishing (OA) to the traditional close-access or subscription-access publishing. OA is direct communication between the author, and the reader, with a minimum of mediation, thereby added value to the chain of scientific communication (Schöpfel, 2014). It makes research output freely accessible and increases transparency, free of copyright and licensing restrictions, thus reusing relevant data possible by other researchers (Tickell, 2018).…”

Međuknjižnična posudba u eri digitalne dostupnosti znanstvenih informacija

“…Osim otvorenog pristupa smanjenju zahtjeva doprinose i pretplate e-časopisa i e-knjiga velikih izdavača, digitalizacijski projekti. 68 British Library Document Supply devedesetih godina bilježi porast zahtjeva, no nakon 2000. godine dolazi do smanjenja broja zahtjeva, a od 2011. godine dolazi do smanjenja broja međunarodnih zahtjeva. Razlog su ukidanje povlastica inozemnim knjižnicama zbog straha od mogućih tužbi vezanih uz kršenje autorskog prava.…”

Open supply? On the future of document supply in the world of open science

“…Today document supply has to decide how to deal with open access -should it integrate open access, for instance because library users still continue to struggle with information retrieval (Baich 2015)? Should it consider open access as an opportunity for further service development (Schöpfel 2014)? Nevertheless, the next question will be (already is) content of supply: will (should) document supply cover the whole range of scientific information, which means more and more data and "all kinds of stuff", or should it limit itself to the object "document" stricto sensu, i.e.…”

“…Should it consider open access as an opportunity for further service development? (Schöpfel, 2014). Nevertheless, the next question will be (already is) content of supply: will (should) document supply cover the whole range of scientific information, which means more and more data and “all kinds of stuff”, or should it limit itself to the object “document” sensu stricto, i.e.…”