Relationships between Interlibrary Loan and Research Activity in Canada

Duy, Joanna; Larivière, Vincent

doi:10.5860/crl12-378

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“…Data were obtained from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries from 2006 to 2009. The conclusion does seem to be justified by the figures although the correlation is less than convincing in the scatter plot (Figure 1; Duy and Larivière, 2014).…”

Section: Document Supplymentioning

confidence: 80%

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

McGrath

2014

Interlending &Amp; Document Supply

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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.

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Section: Document Supplymentioning

confidence: 80%

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

McGrath

2014

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“…Material is not lent out via ILL unless it is in demand by the research community and unique to the holding library. Duy and Lariviere [8] have studied the connection between ILL and research in the Canadian context. Also, Henderson [9] has proposed a collection failure quotient that takes interlibrary borrowing requests as a main indicator of collection failure.…”

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ARL Libraries and Research: Correlates of Grant Funding

Womack

2016

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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While providing the resources and tools that make advanced research possible is a primary mission of academic libraries at large research universities, many other elements also contribute to the success of the research enterprise, such as institutional funding, staffing, labs, and equipment. This study focuses on U.S. members of the Association for Research Libraries (ARL). Research success is measured by the total grant funding received by the University, creating an ordered set of categories. Combining data from the NSF's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, ARL Statistics, and IPEDS, the primary explanatory factors for research success are examined. Using linear regression, logistic regression, and the cumulative logit model, the best-fitting models generated by ARL data, NSF data, and the combined data set for both nominal and per capita funding are compared. These models produce the most relevant explanatory variables for research funding, which do not include library-related variables in most cases.

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“…ILL sections staffed by senior professional librarians are more likely “to fill requests as lenders” efficiently than those that are staffed by paraprofessionals or junior staff members. Another noticeable aspect is that the majority of top universities by supplies or requests are the top research institutions in the country suggesting a positive correlation between research activities and the extent of involvement in ILL (Duy and Lariviere, 2014) (Table VI).…”

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“…This means that the closer the libraries to each other the higher the level of ILL borrowing and lending between and among them. Duy and Lariviere(2014) conducted another study where they sought to determine correlations between ILL and research activities. The authors found significant relationship between borrowing and research activities at universities in Canada.…”

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An analysis of interlibrary loan services: a case study of a university in South Africa

Bangani

Chizwina

Moyo

2018

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Purpose The landscape of teaching, learning and research has changed requiring the need for diverse information resources. Given the current budgetary constraints and financial conditions prevailing in many universities, sharing of information resources has become a necessity. The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services have thus become an important service to meet the immediate needs of library users. The aim of this paper is to analyse the ILL services of the North-West University in South Africa from 2006 to 2016. Using statistical data, the paper shows the emerging pattern in borrowing and lending between institutions as well as determines the existence of correlations between borrowing and lending libraries. The results of this study show that ILL amongst libraries has decreased in the past 11 years. A need exists for increased awareness of ILL and there is need for technological innovations that will ensure that library users are able to request for information resources seamlessly. Design/methodology/approach This is a quantitative study that uses ILL data from the North-West University. Data were downloaded from the SABINET ILL system using the three NWU JC codes. They were then collated and uploaded on excel spreadsheets. In the main, the excel spreadsheets were used to interpret the data. Further, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software, in particular Spearman’s Correlation Analysis, was used to test correlations between data from libraries that requested information resources from NWU and data from libraries that supplied information resources to NWU during this period using Rumsey’s guidelines to interpret the correlations. Findings The findings of the study reveal that ILL among libraries in South Africa had generally declined owing mostly to the proliferation of online resources resulting to changes in user information-seeking behaviour. The decline is despite the challenges of low budgets received by most libraries for the acquisition of information resources. It can also be concluded that public university libraries still value ILL as demonstrated by the high number of items requested from other libraries. The findings also reveal that most ILL activities were conducted by public universities. Research limitations/implications It was not possible to obtain the list of titles that have been requested and also to obtain the user’s details. This would have enabled the authors to determine the type of titles that are being requested, and the users that request them. Practical implications ILL should continue to be enhanced in view of the challenge of dwindling library budgets against the escalating prices of information resources. There is also a need for user education so that they become aware of the ILL service. From experience, library users normally give up once they realize that what they wanted is not available through the local catalogue and this calls for librarians to create an awareness to users that ILL could help solve their frustrations. Social implications These results show that ILL can play a significant role to level the playing field between the well-resourced libraries in urbanized regions or provinces and the poorly resourced ones in rural regions or provinces. This social justice aspect of ILL is probably the reason why better resourced libraries in South Africa have decided to remain in the scheme unlike other countries where better resourced libraries opted out of reciprocal arrangements with small and medium-sized institutions. Originality/value The study adds to a very limited number of studies emanating from Africa. A study of this nature has never been conducted in Africa, as previous studies were nationwide studies. As far as the authors know, this is the first study that uses ILL data to research the impact of the global financial crisis on libraries in Africa.

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Relationships between Interlibrary Loan and Research Activity in Canada

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

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

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

ARL Libraries and Research: Correlates of Grant Funding

An analysis of interlibrary loan services: a case study of a university in South Africa

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