[ILL-L] RE: Embargo and fill rates, etc.

[Denise L Montgomery]

Frank,

Maybe we can bring this up as a discusssion topic sometime at the NWILL 
conference in Portland. This will be my third straight year of 
attending.

                   Denise Montgomery
                   Valdosta State University



Frank Haulgren wrote:


>This is a topic that impacts us all and really deserves a thorough 
discussion.  I get the list in digest form so always am running a day 
behind in these discussions.  So....
>
>I'd like to hear from some of you regarding how your lending folks 
manage or otherwise stay informed about publisher's contracts that 
limit the use of e-journals to fill ILL.  The various embargo periods 
are one aspect of this.  Others prohibit or require that the PDF 
available through an e-journal be printed to fill an ILL request.
>
>We have an ongoing discussion in our office about the legitimacy 
emailing PDFs generated through subscriptions to electronic journals.  
We get a steady stream of these from many libraries but, in spite of 
the paper involved and gross inefficiency, we print rather than forward 
on the original PDF.  What's the common wisdom on this??
>
>Frank Haulgren
>Collection Services Manager
>ILL - Document Delivery  &  Assessment Cooridnator
>Wilson Library - Western Washington University
>
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