IngentaConnect Document Delivery Services

Abstract:

The Survey of Academic & Special Libraries is based on detailed surveys of 20 law libraries, 23 corporate libraries, 22 hospital and healthcare libraries and 65 academic libraries in the USA & Canada. The report's more than 500 tables of data present an extraordinary statistical map of the purchasing policies and technology practices of academic & special libraries in North America. Among the issues covered are spending on and negotiating with major commercial online services, the use of web-based niche information suppliers, use of CD-ROM, traditional and electronic document delivery services, use of various search engines, and spending on books, cataloging systems, training, electronic and print journals and much more. Data is broken out by size and type of library with separate presentations for academic, medical, legal, corporate and government libraries. See the table of contents, list of tables and sample data for more details.

Section focuses on document delivery services including mean spending for electronic document delivery services in 1999 and estimated spending in 2000; percentage of journal articles, that the library does not subscribe to, obtained through library loans, electronic document delivery, traditional document delivery, etc; change in rate of the usage of document delivery; percentages of libraries that subscribe to specific document delivery services such as Northern Light of Silver Platter, etc; and methods of payment for such services.

Keywords: electronic document delivery services; journal articles; Institute for Scientific Information; Northern Light; Silver Platter

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Primary Research Group, Inc.

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