Interlending & Document Supply: Volume 31 Issue 3

Truly European: interlending and document supply in Belgium at the beginning of the twenty‐first century

Julien Van Borm, Jan Corthouts

Belgium, one of the smaller European Union countries, has long since integrated its interlending and document supply in a truly European context and 20 per cent of all supplies…

Resource‐sharing roles and responsibilities for CISTI: for better or for ILL?

Mary VanBuskirk, Naomi Krym

Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)’s history in resource sharing, both in Canada and internationally, was described in a previous article. This…

The impact of electronic journals on academic libraries: the changing relationship between journals, acquisitions and inter‐library loans department roles and functions

Victoria Robertson

This article is based on a study undertaken for an MSc dissertation looking at the impact of electronic journals on the relationship between acquisitions, inter‐library loans and…

Trends in German document delivery services (with particular reference to subito)

Uwe Rosemann

The article describes the development and the functionality of the document delivery service subito as a decentralised, co‐operative model involving 27 libraries. Special…

The potential role of e‐books in remote document supply

Maurice B. Line

Presents an overview and evaluation of the technical options available for e‐books and their potential for document supply.

A quick guide to … XML

Stephanie Taylor

XML is a standard used to create a text‐based structure for storing information. It is a set of rules used to lay out text to make it easy to navigate for computer programs. It…

Extending our reach: resource sharing in Irish libraries

Norma McDermott

This paper reviews current trends in interlending and document supply in Ireland and speculates on the issues and implications raised by the increase in British Library…

Interlending and document supply: a review of recent literature – XLVI

Mike McGrath

The consequences of electronic publishing continue to manifest themselves in the 110 journals scanned for this literature review. Pricing, access, e‐books and e‐journals are…