[ILL-L] Copyright & e-journals

[Lana Babij]

Rob,

You have described the issues more clearly and directly than I have seen
anywhere.

 

The borrowing and lending of ejournals is of increasingly serious
concern.

As borrowers, we see holdings increasingly shifting to the ejournal
records for specific titles, or left unspecified within print records -
a sure sign that the library currently receives that title
electronically only.  We send out our requests and cross our fingers.

As lenders in high volume institutions, we do not have time to pore over
frequently modified lists of title permissions (if these are shared at
all!), and it becomes increasingly outside the spirit of ILL to
categorically refuse to copy from any ejournals.

 

For the time being, ILL staff need to:

1.    decide that the processing of copies from ejournals is not only a
legitimate (within contract) but an essential ILL service activity. 

2.    stress to their library administrators and acquisitions staff the
importance of a) aggressively negotiating contracts in the first place,
and b) sharing that contract info with ILL departments in a clear and
timely manner.

3.    implement streamlined procedures to incorporate contract info into
the lending workflow.

 

There will certainly be more that we as an ILL community can do in the
future to help each other out in this area.

 

 

 

Lana Y. Babij              

DD/ILL                  

Homer Babbidge Library U-2005F  

University of Connecticut

369 Fairfield Rd

Storrs, CT  06269-2005

USA

 

phone:  860-486-1984

fax:    860-486-3593

e-mail: lana.babij at uconn.edu

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Rob Tiessen
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:16 PM
To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
Subject: Re: [ILL-L] Copyright & e-journals

 

If a library owns an ejournal, they can provide an interlibrary loan 

just as they do with a print copy.

 

The problem comes about in that most ejournals are licenced, or 

subscribed rather than owned.  So the ejournal resides on a server 

belonging to someone else and the library has purchased access rather 

than ownership.

 

In these kinds of contractual relationships, what matters is the actual 

contract between the library and the provider rather than copyright law.


  Many ejournal providers have reasonable contracts that allow for 

things like interlibrary loan.  Many ejournal providers do not have 

reasonable contracts, and restrict or forbid interlibrary loan.

 

What gets confusing is that the interlibrary loan staff rarely have 

direct access to the contract or licence terms.  ILL staff usually 

depend on other library units to keep them up to date on licence terms.

 

So you are working through two layers:  1) Does the contract allow for 

interlibrary loan?  2) Does the library that you are requesting from 

keep ILL staff informed about the contract terms for their ejournals?

 

 

 

Rob Tiessen

Head, Access Services

University of Calgary Library

tiessen at ucalgary.ca

403-220-6043

 

 

 

ppadovan at trlib.org wrote:

> Hi, colleagues:

> 

>      I have a question about e-journals which I hope somebody may be
able to answer for me. I have a request from a patron for a copy of an
article that appears in a journal that is only available as an
e-journal, no print edition exists.

> 

>      I have located trhe journal on OCLC and am sending a copy request
for the article. But I have been told previously that when libraries
subscribe to e-journals, they are not allowed to supply copies via ILL.
Can you tell me if this is true, or does it vary with each title and
publisher, or perhaps with each library?

> 

> Thanks for any info you can give me about this, Patrick @ UOJ

> 

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