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I am forwarding this message because it may be of wider interest. If you are at Online, I recommend having a look at this! Sally Sally Morris, Secretary-General Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK Phone: 01903 871686 Fax: 01903 871457 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ALPSP Website http://www.alpsp.org.uk Learned Publishing is now online, free of charge, at www.alpsp.org.uk/journal > >Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 15:10:26 -0000 > >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) > >Subject: EASY demonstration > >From: "Sykes,J" <[log in to unmask]> > >To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > >Cc: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > >X-Unsub: To leave, send text 'leave lis-london' to [log in to unmask] > >Reply-To: "Sykes,J" <[log in to unmask]> > >Sender: [log in to unmask] > > > >Dear all, you may know of the EASY pilot project, whereby a project team > >consisting of ingenta and ILLOS (Lancaster) is creating an experimental > >electronic article delivery service with the co-operation of a number of > >publishers (one-year project funded by JISC). > > > >The idea is that ILL requests for a journal article (which will go through > >the ILLOS inter-library loan management system web interface (ILLOS version > >2)) will be checked automatically against ingenta's journals databases (or > >at least those bits of it where the publishers have signed up to the scheme, > >which is currently around 16 publishers with a further similar number > >considering joining up) and if the article is found it will be sent > >electronically to the requester (who can be an ILL administrator or can be > >an end user) via email. A further refinement is that if the requester's > >library already subscribes to the journal the reply will point them to that > >fact, thereby saving the Library from paying for a redundant EASY request. > >If the database does not have the article, the ILLOS system can then process > >the request in the normal way (ie to the BLDSC or to Lamda or whatever > >service the library usually uses). Work is currently under way to create a > >corresponding service for libraries which do not use the ILLOS system. > > > >More information will be coming out in due course about this pilot scheme, > >which is not yet up and running, but the purpose of this message is to alert > >you to the fact that ingenta will be demonstrating the EASY system at the > >Online exhibition in December. So you might want to ensure that if you are > >going to Online you have a good look at it; and if you're not going yourself > >perhaps you have a member of staff who could take a look for you. > > > >Jean > > > > > >Jean Sykes > >Librarian and Director of Information Services > >London School of Economics and Political Science > >25 Southampton Buildings > >London WC2A 1PH > >tel 020 7955 7218 > >fax 020 7955 7454 > >email: [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Frederick J.Friend, > Director Scholarly Communication, > University College London, > Gower Street, > London WC1E 6BT, > England. > Telephone/Fax 020 7679 4529 > Mobile 0774 762 7738 > E-mail [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] > Web http://www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarly-communication/ > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%