Electronic Document Delivery Service Research Articles

The TOLIMAC project: access control, charging and payment of electronic information resources by means of smart cards

TOLIMAC is a research project funded by the Telematics for Libraries Programme of the EU and is developing a system to provide controlled access to, and management of, networked information resources and other services in a library environment. The system is based on smart cards and encryption technology integrating management functionalities ‐such as user identification, remote access control, electronic payment‐, and security requirements ‐such as secure information transfer and financial transactions, document integrity. The system also enables libraries to adjust user access rights, and charges for available electronic resources, whether local or remote, according to user categories. The system is based on standards. It has a Web interface. The pilot system will provide users from three university libraries with access to an electronic document delivery service based at INIST (France), including search, order and delivery of journal articles, as well as payment facilities by means of the electronic purse on the user's smart card.

A Cost-Effectiveness Study of Ownership versus Access

This paper describes a method which was used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of three different ways of supplying periodical articles in an academic library. The methods considered were: subscribing to a periodical title (ownership); individual article supply provided by two electronic document delivery services, Arti-clesFirst of OCLC FirstSearch and UnCover; and traditional article supply through the British Library Document Supply Centre. The operational costs of the alternatives are obtained by taking a management accounting approach and are examined in relation to the provision of the services within the library of St. Patrick's College, May-nooth, Ireland. The cost-per-use of owning a periodical title is calculated based on the operational costs of the Periodicals Department of the library, its subscription price and a lifetime use determined by examination of the current requests for articles made through the library's Inter-Library Loans Department. The cost-peruse for the other services are also calculated based on their operational costs and document delivery charges.

Statewide PowerPages® Access: The University of Akron Experience

ABSTRACT Full-text electronic document delivery is fast becoming a reality for libraries. A number of tools have been developed to provide full-text options to library users. An interesting example of such an option is UMI's PowerPages®. The University of Akron has recently implemented PowerPages® throughout its library system. PowerPages® is made available through the University of Akron's affiliation with the OhioLINK network. The following article will describe the set-up and use of the PowerPages® service, and show the experience of a university library in running an electronic document delivery service as part of a network.

Issues in electronic document delivery

Provides an introduction to some of the current work being done on electronic document delivery services within the European Libraries Programme and relates this to other national initiatives. Seeks to draw up a list of issues that must be addressed as the area develops and, in particular, to outline the considerations that must be given to initiatives within the next phase of the Framework Programme.

Document delivery in an electronic world

Based on a talk given during the final session of the FASTDOC Workshop on Electronic Document Delivery held at the University of Patras, 4‐6 March 1996. Provides an outline of some of the main issues that electronic document delivery services must now confront and relates these to the many project reports given during the workshop (largely work carried out under the European Libraries Programme).

BIODOC: access versus holdings in a university library

Explains the background, context and operation of the Cranfield University Library BIODOC Research Project which explores key issues in the access versus journal holdings debate. Hopes to test whether an access model of provision in certain circumstances provides more cost effective and appropriate information support than the traditional in‐house collection. The project involves the cancellation of all the library journal subscriptions for the Biotechnology Centre and their replacement by the UnCover Reveal current contents service and as document supply from a number of sources. Describes the factors such as rising periodical costs, availability of new electronic document delivery services, increasing use of e‐mail by academics that led to the experiment; and the reasons for the selection of the Biotechnology Centre as an appropriate partner. Describes the project management and everyday operation of the project and the design of the project to include data collection for evaluation. Includes consideration of the issue of copyright.

Electronic Document Delivery at Houston Public Library

Delivery of documents in electronic form is a natural first step in the incorporation of the services of the virtual library into traditional public library service programs. This paper will discuss some of the issues and challenges involved in implementing electronic document delivery service, the impact on traditional document delivery wrought by electronic documents, and changes mandated by electronic access to physical documents.

An overview of commercial electronic document delivery suppliers and services

There has been a proliferation in commercial electronic document delivery services. Over the past few years this consistent growth, combined with enhancements to existing services, has made it difficult for librarians to keep abreast of the latest developments and service availability. This paper presents an overview of document delivery services and suppliers, and provides discussion on the various types currently available. The paper is further divided into non‐collection‐based services, collection‐based services and specialised collection‐based services. Detailed information about particular services has been collated and presented in tabular form: this includes information regarding cost, delivery time, subject field and full contact details.

Resourcing academic libraries ‐ is IT the answer? Electronic document delivery services

It has often been argued that, with continually improving capabilities of electronic document transfer, the time of comprehensive library collections is coming to an end; libraries can, and should, concentrate on the core collection and rely on remote supply for everything else. The argument over access versus holdings is a long and complex one and does not intrinsically rest on document delivery being electronic. It has much to do with storage space, staffing levels, equipment costs, user requirements and records management

ＡＤＯＮＩＳ収載雑誌の分析

ADONIS (Article Delivery Over Network Information System) is an electronic document delivery service on CD-ROM. This system enables users to view articles from more than 620 journals through the computer's display and to print on-site. In March 1994, ADONIS was installed in Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokuso Hospital Library. In this paper, the author analyzes ADONIS journals based on “Journal Titles in ADONIS” from the following aspects: (1) Publishing countries. (2) Time lag between arrival of the new issue CD-ROM edition (ADONIS) and the paper edition. (3) Impact Factor of SCI Journal Citation Reports. (4) How many ADONIS journals are included in NLM or FM databases? (5) How many ADONIS journals are included in “List of Current Periodicals Acquired by Japanese Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Libraries”? (6) Publishers copyright charge (print out charge). The author also discusses problems in the future of ADONIS.

Copyright and Electronic Document Delivery Services

Based on a background study prepared by the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam for the European Commission, DG XIII‐E/3, Luxemburg. The rapid growth of electronic document delivery services has created a number of complex copyright related problems. Are abstracts and bibliographical data protected? Are electronic storage, transmission and delivery‐on‐demand restricted acts? Do existing copyright limitations (library privileges, reprographic exemptions) apply in a digital environment? These and other copyright related issues are discussed from a primarily European perspective. In conclusion, some legislative and contractual solutions are discussed: European harmonization of copyright exemptions, statutory licensing, collective administration of rights, collective licensing, direct licensing.

Document delivery: the UEA experience

This paper summarises the development, current position and future proposed enhancement of the University of East Anglia (UEA)'s electronic document delivery service. The service has been developed in conjunction with the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) and began in September 1993. It now handles up to 20 documents a day, via the Library. It is hoped to transfer to desktop delivery, subject to copyright restrictions.

Seminar on adonis—Electronic Document Delivery, Library and Information Services, Aston University, 14 June 1993

Seminar on <scp>adonis</scp>—Electronic Document Delivery, Library and Information Services, Aston University, 14 June 1993

TELETEX BASED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY (PROJECT HERMES)

Project HERMES, the proposed electronic document delivery service sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry, is described. HERMES is characterized by the participation of major publishers, industrial and public libraries and national government and by the use of Teletex for both document ordering and delivery. For the first phase of the project, provision of three facilities—electronic document ordering and delivery, automatic document delivery and electronic mail—to a pilot group of some sixty organizations is proposed. The major aim of the project is to promote and gain experience of the use of Teletex within the information and publishing community. [The Department of Trade and Industry announced in December 1984 that it does not intend to proceed with Project HERMES. The Journal of Documentation Editorial Board nevertheless feels that Susan Amy's paper should be published on the grounds that the proposals it details remain one possible approach to the implementation of a demonstration document delivery service based on teletex.]