Interlending & Document Supply: Volume 33 Issue 1

LAMDA: an example of a resource‐sharing document delivery service in UK Higher Education libraries

Aims to describe the development of the LAMDA service, from its inception as an eLib project in 1995 to its current status as a commercial service.

Docusend: the one‐stop, integrated, document delivery broker service

To provide an overview and analysis of a major JISC‐funded document delivery project.

E‐books in public libraries: a terminal or termination technology?

Aims to present a background to the use of electronic resources, especially e‐books, in public libraries, which appears to threaten some basic activities that define a reading…

Publishers and librarians in Central and Eastern Europe – love or hatred?

To provide an overview and propose solutions in improving scholarly publishing and document supply in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in connection with copyright acts and…

Resource sharing in Australia: evaluation of national initiatives and recent developments

This paper aims to summarise the changing pattern of Australian interlibrary loans and document delivery, the achievements of the consultative mechanisms (National Resource…

Patron‐initiated borrowing and traditional ILL: the cascade experience

To report and analyze transaction data over a four‐year period for patron‐initiated borrowing via the Cascade union catalog as well as transaction data for traditional ILL in a…

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature – 51

To provide a review of the most recent literature concerning document delivery and related matters.

Photocopying and the awareness of copyright in tertiary institutions in Nigeria

To investigate photocopying practices in tertiary institutions in Nigeria as they relate to the existing copyright law and suggestions to regulate photocopying practices so that…

When a good standard development process fails

The meeting on the international interlibrary loan communication standard meeting in Washington DC under the auspices of the Association of Research Libraries is described.

Interlibrary loan and document supply in France – the Montpellier meeting

Two French professional associations (ADBU and AURA) organised the first nation‐wide meeting on interlibrary loan and document supply in France. This paper aims to provide a…

E‐books: how to make them work: a seminar organised by the Multimedia Information and Technology Group (North West) on 10 November 2004 at Liverpool John Moores University

Aims to provide a review of the seminar which concentrated on the developments in e‐books within higher education and the lead taken by this sector in the development of e‐book…

Ingenta new developments and finances

BioMed Central launches repository service for institutions

Reed beats market expectations

Elsevier brings scientific information to New Zealand

Pilot project to lay the foundations for scientific work of the future

Mary Jackson’s new survey of ILL

All of OCLC’s WorldCat heading toward the open web

ALA creates new resource-sharing section

UK National Union Catalogue of Serials becomes a reality

Open Access Is the Flavour of the Year: A Review of Four Reports and one response on Open Access

JSTOR: A History

Conference announcement

News on document delivery matters in the media

NIH requires open access for its funded medical research

Editorial

JISC renews BioMed Central membership for UK Universities

SWETS signs up eight more publishers

National Library of Australia to use OCLC PICA Central Library System to support National Bibliographic Database

FIZ annual report

ARL study confirms effectiveness of user-initiated ILL/DD services

Norway and Open Access

CrossRef adds new services and expands to new content areas

Every silver lining has a cloud: a review of The British Library - Providing Services beyond the Reading Rooms