Some advice, please. We subscribe to Sports Discus and it is being used
extensively by final years sports students We are finding that BL cannot
supply some of the more lightweight sports material and I wondered where
people went for their sports ILLs. I have considered SIRCE Express but the
cost per article is very high. We do not charge for ILLs at the moment and
students are putting in requests for articles which are one page or 2 pages
long. I have considered the SPRIG database of periodical holdings but that
not been updated since 1996.
I have two questions: A good source for non-academic sports journals.
Secondly do other sites have any policy on refusing an Inter library loan
because:
1. Not academic enough
2. Too short (we know sometimes it is actually going to be a column in
a magazine)
3. If abstract only available – had this situation last week but
student insisted abstract would be enough
I would welcome any views/thoughts on this
Maureen Richardson
Edge Hill College
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