Supplying electronic articles via ILL: The "print-first" requirement

[Elizabeth Winter <elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu>]

At Georgia Tech, we've recently begun (where permitted) supplying 
articles that we subscribe to in electronic format as part of the 
RAPID ILL program.  Since most of our licenses require that we 
print off articles before scanning and sending, we are going 
through a lot of paper and toner.  Our head of ILL has read on 
the RAPID listserv that other libraries simply download the PDFs 
directly from the ejournals to a flash drive and then upload them 
to send.

This means either that they've got very generous licenses or 
they're ignoring the print-first requirement.  I'm curious as to 
how many of you regularly, successfully negotiate the 
"print-first" requirement out of your license agreements.

Many thanks,

Elizabeth L. Winter
Electronic Resources Coordinator
Collection Acquisitions & Management
Library and Information Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
email: elizabeth.winter@library.gatech.edu