Paper Info
Title
Impact of Electronic Journals on Document Delivery Services
Abstract
Collection management policies of libraries were mainly shaped by in-house use of materials in the past. Yet the emergence of electronic journals and their availability through publishers' or aggregators' web sites is changing this practice considerably. Libraries are no longer limited with the "one source - one user" model. This paper investigates the potential impact of the availability of electronic journals through the web sites of publishers or library consortia on document delivery services. It reviews the relevant literature first and reports the findings of the study with regards to the provision of articles through electronic journals and its impact on the Turkish national document delivery service. It then compares the number of articles supplied through the service with that downloaded from publishers' web sites by the users of the consortium of Turkish academic libraries. Following questions are addressed: Is document "delivery" using traditional or electronic means becoming a withering practice in libraries? Would document delivery services exist as we know them today in the age of electronic journals, big deals, and library consortia? The paper discusses the implications of electronic journals available through big deals on national document delivery services along with some conclusions. This paper aims to review the potential impact of electronic journals on document delivery services. We first summarize the major findings of the relevant studies reported in the literature. We then present the results of our study on documents supplied by the Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBİM) using electronic journals over the last five years and compare this with the download statistics of the users of the Consortium of Turkish University Libraries (ANKOS). We discuss the potential impact of electronic journals available through big deals on interlending and document delivery services.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2006
international conference on electronic publishing
document delivery services,electronic journals,interlibrary lending,big deal packages,remote document supply
Field
DocType
Citations 
World Wide Web,Turkish,Computer science,Multimedia
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yasar Tonta1459.39
Yurdagül Ünal2115.61