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….
