[ILL-L] Embargo and fill rates

[Document Delivery]

You could deflect e-serials, or deflect by title.
 
Ed Helmrich
Iona College

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Heather L Brown
Sent: Tue 7/7/2009 4:59 PM
To: ill-l at webjunction.org
Subject: [ILL-L] Embargo and fill rates


Apologies if this has been covered before. I'm not quite sure how to search the archives.

A number of years ago, all of our ejournals were added to Serhold/OCLC so that they could be lent to other libraries (license dependent, of course).  There are about 500 titles that have embargos and there is no easy way to handle this in holdings statements except put the range available at that point in time and update when you see fit or delete these titles all together.  Otherwise, you get hit with requests you can't fill and cancel for licensing reasons.  This is what we do now and our fill rate looks awful.  Has anyone else found a solution other than what I've mentioned here or have any thoughts on these worsening fill rates?

Thanks!
Heather





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Heather L. Brown, M.A.
Assistant Professor
Head of Access Services
-Interlibrary Loan and Photocopy Department
-Distance Education
-The Nebraska Medical Center Liaison

McGoogan Library of Medicine
University of Nebraska Medical Center
986705 Nebraska Medical Center
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