Abstract
ABSTRACT This study examines the potential for electronic full-text journal articles to reduce the level of traditional interlibrary borrowing requests typically placed at a large academic research library. With the growth in availability of electronic full-text journal articles and improvements in accessing and using this format, library users have access to journal articles not physically owned by their institution's library. This fact may lead to a reduced demand for photocopied journal articles typically requested through interlibrary borrowing departments. This study begins by examining the recent literature on this topic, including several which have measured the impact that electronic full-text resources have had on their interlibrary borrowing levels. This is followed by a description of the methodology used in this particular study and a presentation of the results. The final section offers an explanation of these results as well as some conclusions regarding the potential for electronic full-tex...
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