...Penny Garrod This article assesses the likely impact of e‐books on interlibrary lending in the UK. It examines a range of factors that are likely to impact on the lending of e‐books to other libraries, for example, digital rights management systems designed to protect copyright and publishers...

...David Ball At first sight the “big (or all‐you‐can‐eat) deal” seems excellent value for libraries and their users, and represents the shining possibilities of the electronic age. A more thorough‐going evaluation, however, exposes dangers for universities, their funders and publishers. This paper...

... developer for ILL/docdel systems; developments in public library resource sharing in the UK; e-books and their impact on ILL; copyright and document delivery; CrossRef, the publisher's answer for document delivery and TU Delft, the Dutch document supplier, and much much more. In addition Mary Jackson, from...

...David Brown With the advent of the Internet, the Web and electronic publishing systems, new ways of delivering scholarly information have arisen which challenge some of the traditional growth assumptions made for document delivery. Conventional theory described an emerging need for an escape valve...

...Charles Omekwu Accessing documents published in developing countries is always difficult because of the lack of bibliographic tools and control framework, low awareness of legal deposit legislation, and sub‐standard nature of the publications. The publications are mainly fugitive, suffer high...

... whereby subscription revenues cover the non‐trivial cost of peer‐review; designed to maximise research productivity; intended as a platform for scientific and scholarly debate. The ELSSS model conceives the peer‐reviewed published article not at the final stage of the scholarly communication chain...

...David Russon This paper reviews the development of UK copyright law since the time the British Library was established, with particular reference to the “fair dealing” and “library” exceptions. At times when copyright laws have been under review publishers have argued for fewer and narrower...

... to a commercial publisher had a major impact, but its place as the leading international journal in the field of document supply remains unchallenged. The first issue appeared in January 1971 and contained 36 pages, plus a bright blue card cover which bore the slogan “National Lending Library”. The issue...

... © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Distribution management Document supply Publishing Internet Infotrieve teams with Adobe to provide secure online sales Keywords: Distribution management, Document supply, Publishing,Internet Infotrieve, a market leader in article...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> The Directory is arranged alphabetically by country and within each country individual organisations are also arranged alphabetically. This has created a list of 242 organisations in 78 countries. Keywords Libraries, Publishing, Blind people...

... Keywords Publishing, Referencing, Research, Journal publishing Twelve scientific and scholarly publishers have announced that they are to collaborate on a reference linking service which could improve the way many researchers conduct online searching. The 12 publishers involved...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Publishing Copyright Legal disputes Canadian court rejects fair dealing defence by library Keywords Publishing, Copyright, Legal disputes The Federal Court of Canada has come to a decision in the case relating to the Law Society...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Electronic publishing Journal publishing Libraries Publishing Internet SwetsNet continues to grow Keywords Electronic publishing, Journal publishing, Libraries,Publishing, Internet SwetsNet is a service offering libraries...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Seminars Libraries Library services Publishing UAP across the world Keywords Seminars, Libraries, Library services, Publishing IFLA's Core Programme for the Universal Availability of Publications (UAP)aims to overcome the barriers...

... authors and users within licensing agencies. It highlights the special importance of copyright management and protection systems to academic and professional publishers. The systems used in the UK, other countries of Europe and the USA are compared and contrasted. The article underlines the enduring value...

... database, as well as the full images of those journals to which publishers have given permission and to which the site subscribes. The project has confirmed many basic concepts. However, since the project was launched in 1993, technology has greatly altered the needs and expectations of STM researchers...

...Mike McGrath Counters the argument expressed in an earlier issue of ILDS that electronic document delivery is the answer to readers’ needs. Argues that with over 100,000 books published last year and no sign of any decline in growth, traditional publishing still provides a significant proportion...

... the consequences and characteristics of the new system. The main characteristics of such a new approach are: Third, the system is unaffordable. Publishers seem to be saying increasingly, “We’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse”. Steve Harnad has called this a “Faustian bargain” whereby the author...

... technology to provide, under publisher control, copies of copyright articles more efficiently than(unauthorized) photocopying and to take the net efficiency gain as a usage or copyright fee. At that time, it looked unlikely that publishers would ever succeed in obtaining any significant usage revenues from...

...D. Dallman; M. Draper; S. Schwarz In spite of technical developments, electronic publishing in science and technology has had a slow start. This is caused by several factors,essentially managerial in character, such as standardization of text and image representation, quality assurance, the filing...