Dear Colleagues,
Due to an ever increasing number of electronic journals now held by
libraries we often find ourselves in the position of applying to other
libraries for journal articles held in this format. More often than not the
response we get is a refusal to supply and the reason given is that the
journal is taken electronically.
We take a large number of Ejournals at the University of Liverpool and for
almost all of the titles held our licence allows us to print a copy and
supply by post/fax or Ariel for ILL purposes. This has made me question
whether the decline to supply response is based on misunderstanding rather
than fact and if the licences were checked these libraries would discover
they could indeed print off an article and supply it as an inter-library
loan/document supply transaction.
The following clause in the NESLi2 model licence states for example:
3.1.3.6 supply to an authorised user of another library (whether by post,
fax or secure electronic transmission, using Ariel or its equivalent,
whereby the electronic file is deleted immediately after printing) a single
paper copy of an electronic original of an individual document;
see http://www.nesli2.ac.uk/model.htm
Most licences for NESLi2 agreements include this clause unmodified. Each
institution has a NESLi2 rep who can supply the ILL librarian with a copy
of their licence for any NESLi2 agreement to which they subscribe. Most
other e-journal licences now include a similar clause.
As Ejournals are here to stay and this is not a problem that will go away I
would be interested to hear the views of others who have experienced
similar problems.
Lesley Butler
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Lesley Butler
Interlibrary Loans Librarian
Harold Cohen Library, University of Liverpool
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tel. 0151 794 5414 fax. 0151 794 5417
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