RE: Question regarding ILL

["David Prosser" <david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk>]

There is not just the library stick of 'we must have ILL'. But there is
also a carrot to publishers.  Especially in the pre-electronic era, ILL
meant that readers had access to papers that they would not normally have
access to, so resulting in (potentially) more reads and (potentially) more
citations.  This was positive exposure for the journal at no cost to the
publisher, pushing up the journal's impact factor and so the general
attractiveness of the journal to authors.

If, for a given institution, the number of ILLs reached a significant
number it might have resulted in a subscription - so the academic
community would have done the advertising for the publisher.

In an electronic environment it is moot whether the potential increase in
impact is offset by potential loss in pay-per-view income.  However, the
ILL system is so ingrained that, as previous writers have noted, library
customers will insist on it.

(I won't comment on the irony of publishers allowing ILL from print but
not from electronic versions, so resulting in libraries scanning-in
print papers that they already have electronic access to so as to fulfil
ILL electronically.  OK, I will comment on it - it's barmy.  But
libraries don't know what else to do!)

Best wishes

David C Prosser PhD
Director
SPARC Europe
 
E-mail:  david.prosser@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Tel:       +44 (0) 1865 277 614
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Stuivenga, Will
Sent: 26 January 2005 22:58
To: 'liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu'
Subject: RE: Question regarding ILL

Because a savvy library or consortium asks (no INSISTS) on it as part of
their licensing negotiation, and because the publisher wants to make the
sale. And because the library agrees to terms such as these (taken from
the CLIR/DLF Model License posted on the LibLicense web site:
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/standlicagree.html)

Interlibrary Loan. Licensee may fulfill requests from other institutions,
a practice commonly called Interlibrary Loan. Licensee agrees to fulfill
such requests in compliance with Section 108 of the United States
Copyright Law (17 USC 108, "Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction
by libraries and archives") and clause 3 of the Guidelines for the Proviso
of Subsection 108(g)(2) prepared by the National Commission on New
Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works.

Will Stuivenga <wstuivenga@secstate.wa.gov>
Project Manager, Statewide Database Licensing (SDL)
Washington State Library Division,
Office of the Secretary of State
360.704.5217 fax: 360.586.7575
http://www.statelib.wa.gov/library/libraries/projects/sdl/