Interlending & Document Supply: Volume 44 Issue 4

Share resources through the largest interlibrary loan network

Gemma Burke, Erin Duncan, JL Smither

The paper aims to show how using a resource-sharing service can help you provide more resources to your users.

Ready for the future? A survey on open access with scientists from the French National Research Center (CNRS)

Joachim Schöpfel, Coline Ferrant, Francis André, Renaud Fabre

This paper aims to present empirical evidence on the opinion and behaviour of French scientists (senior management level) regarding open access (OA) to scientific and technical…

Open supply? On the future of document supply in the world of open science

Joachim Schöpfel

The purpose of this paper is to propose a personal viewpoint on the development of document supply in the context of the recent European Union (EU) decisions on open science.

Open science: a revolution in sight?

Bernard Rentier

This paper aims to describe the evolution of scientific communication, largely represented by the publication process. It notes the disappearance of the traditional publication on…

Multi-library union, promoting ILL/DD of the Chinese science digital library

Qingkui Xi, Liju Mao, Bin Zhang, Wen Shi, Ping Bao

This study aims to describe and analyse interlibrary loans and document delivery (ILL/DD) in the Chinese Academy of Sciences and to evaluate the ILL/DD service quality of one…

Resource sharing in the UK public library system: an update

Robert Froud

This paper aims to review the position of UnityUK and FABLibraries (Find a Book in Libraries) some five years after a review by the same author (with Elisabeth Robinson) was…

OhioLINK – recent developments at a United States academic library consortium

Gwen Evans, Theda Schwing

This paper aims to provide an update to Tom Sanville’s 2007 overview of OhioLINK, a renowned US academic library consortium, and describe the current state of activity and…

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature; 93

Mike McGrath

This paper aims to review the current library and information science (LIS) literature for document supply, resource sharing and other issues such as open access (OA) that have an…

Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature; 94

Mike McGrath

This paper aims to review the current library and information science (LIS) literature for document supply, resource sharing and other issues such as open access (OA) that have an…

A farewell from the editor to Interlending and Document Supply

Mike McGrath

This study aims to reflect on developments in document supply and scholarly communications and to look into the future of the service.