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Mon 3 Mar 2008

Elsevier’s Intermediate Print Copy ILL Policy

Posted by Rick under ILL , Libraries , Licensing , Online Databases , Periodicals
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Kind of an interesting post on Open Access News over the weekend.  It seems that the license requirements for Elsevier’s electronic journals include printing a copy of the article, then scanning the article, before a library can provide that article as an interlibrary loan (ILL).

Part of my job is the scanning of articles for ILL, a task that is simultaneously interesting and monotonous.  I cannot think of any reason for their policy, except perhaps to make it inconvenient to provide their articles via ILL.  I will be watching to see if there is further developments….

 

Mon 3 Mar 2008

Elsevier’s Intermediate Print Copy ILL Policy

Posted by Rick under ILL , Libraries , Licensing , Online Databases , Periodicals
No Comments 

Kind of an interesting post on Open Access News over the weekend.  It seems that the license requirements for Elsevier’s electronic journals include printing a copy of the article, then scanning the article, before a library can provide that article as an interlibrary loan (ILL).

Part of my job is the scanning of articles for ILL, a task that is simultaneously interesting and monotonous.  I cannot think of any reason for their policy, except perhaps to make it inconvenient to provide their articles via ILL.  I will be watching to see if there is further developments….