Dear Lesley and all

At Bristol, if we get a request for an article in one of our e-journals, I 
always check the Licence because for a number of them, we are allowed to 
make a paper copy and supply it.  It depends on the Licence, and some of 
the non Nesli ones will not allow it, and it can be tricky tracking the 
information down.  But we do it routinely here and as more and more is 
e-only, I agree that it is something that we will need to make sure we can 
do too.  We are purchasing e-resource management software which will make 
answering this question a lot easier.

We decline where we are being asked for a whole issue or the Licence 
doesn't allow it. But it is possible that we have a print+online sub, and 
can still use the print too...

Jean

--On 24 August 2006 12:21 +0100 Lesley Butler <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

> 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
> -------------------------------------------
> Lesley Butler
> Interlibrary Loans Librarian
> Harold Cohen Library, University of Liverpool
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Serials and Inter-Library Document Supply
University of Bristol Information Services
Arts and Social Sciences Library
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Bristol BS8 1TJ

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