... of requests between the requesting and supplying institutions at all times. Originality/value Although the use of web services in ILL transactions is suggested in the NCIP, their practical application has been limited and isolated. This paper describes their implementation in Spain in practically all...

...Mercedes Echeverría; Sonsoles Jiménez Purpose The paper's aim is to provide insights into interlending and document supply (ILDS) practices in Spain in the current environment of library consortia and to present recent trends in academic ILDS services. Design/methodology/approach An overview...

... of Spain. It also incorporates the impact of the main digitisation projects on the ILL Service. The implementation of the ILL automated management system, GTBib‐SOD, was one of the main ways of obtaining better results. In fact, all the necessary ILL procedures are supported by this ILL application...

... situation and the current way to manage the collection. Electronic journals Collections management Document delivery Purchasing groups Statistics Spain Electronic scientific journals are journals whose full‐text is available on the web, including both those that began in paper‐print form...

... is available in print both in journals and in monographs, the need for document delivery services will remain. Originality/value An insight into the state of e‐journal penetration and its impact on document delivery in Spain – a country where few studies have been carried out in this area. It has been...

...Manuela Vázquez; J Alvarez‐Ossorio Analyses journal demand received by one of Spain′s two document supply centres in one year. Examines data in the following categories:most frequently requested subjects, age of documents, countries where the original journals are published, the most requested...