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

["Kosecki, Stan" <Stan.Kosecki@ARS.USDA.GOV>]

The "print first" requirement makes me wonder whether an 
institution could implement print-to-file (in most environments, 
one should be able to install a PDF printer driver) and bypass 
paper step altogether. Could this process theoretically fulfill 
licensing obligations?

--Stan Kosecki

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Winter
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:06 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Supplying electronic articles via ILL: The "print-first"
requirement

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