At Swansea Metropolitan University, we charge all of our users £1 for each of the first five requests in an academic year. Thereafter, they pay £5 per request, with no limit.
A small proportion of users (researchers) have all of their requests at the rate of £1, on authorisation from the head of department, the theory being that we will charge the department the difference between £1 and £5 (but to date, we have not actually followed the path of cost recovery).
Regards
Jan M.
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Subject: Re: ILL funding - library or faculty?
Can I just ask a supplementary question regarding funding of ILLs - how
many institutions actually charge the end user for part or all of the
cost of ILLs, rather than departments/schools or a central ILL budget?
As before, please reply to me and if requested I will summarise for the
list.
Michael
Michael Robbins,
Senior Assistant - ILL,
The Library,
University of East Anglia,
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Subject: Re: ILL funding - library or faculty?
Helen started a discussion in December about funding of ILL, but
according to the archive there were only a couple of responses to this.
Since we are currently looking into our funding it would be useful to
know how others go about it, so I'm hoping to kickstart the discussion
again.
At UEA, we fund our ILLs by topslicing an allocation from the Schools'
Acquisitions budget, based on size of school and past usage. This is a
fairly arbitrary arrangement (the money is in fact just one pot) and
leads to some schools overspending while others have a lot of money left
at the end of the year.
I would be very interested to hear what others do; please reply direct
to me, and I will summarise for the list if you would like me to.
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