Interlending & Document Supply: Volume 25 Issue 4

Why requests fail

David Parry

Describes a study undertaken in 1996 to examine interlibrary loan and document supply request failures in the UK and Ireland. The project surveyed 54 public, university and…

EURILIA ‐ European Initiative in Library and Information in Aerospace

John J. O’Flaherty

Aerospace library collections are a well‐defined pan‐European subject, for which standardized access and interconnection can add enormously to their value over any one collection…

Delivering the library to its users: from the BIBDEL Project to the Virtual Academic Library of the North‐West

Peter M. Wynne, Geoff Butters, Peter Brophy

Describes the networking solutions used in the experimental extension of academic library services from the University of Central Lancashire to an agricultural college some 100km…

Providing links to primary publisher content: the ISI Electronic Library Project … and beyond

Jacqueline H. Trolley

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Electronic Library Project is a corporate research and development initiative by the Institute for Scientific Information. It offers…

Opinion paper: access versus holdings

John Blagden

Explores how the national aspiration of “universal access” to information compares with what is actually happening in practice. Outlines some of the issues which emerge in the…