Interlending and document supply: a review of the recent literature: 86

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature concerning interlending and document supply. Design/methodology/approach – The study included the review of over 130 journals and related material. Findings – The race to build and deliver a system for dealing with the vast increase in OA-deposited manuscripts in the USA continues. Public access to publishers’ e-content is being made available in UK public libraries as part of the Finch report agreement. More developments in Patron-Driven Acquisition are described and much else. Originality/value – Represents a useful resource for librarians and others concerned with interlending and document supply and such related matters as resource sharing and open access.

EVA (ErwerbungsVorschlags-Assistant) assists in collection building! Using ILL data for patron-driven acquisition

“…A big opportunity of this setting was the collaboration between different institutions, so the expertise of subject [2] could be applied. At the end of the project a prototype of the proposed EVA-system could be presented which then was transformed into a regular service of the Library Service Centre.…”