I'd like to hear how other libraries are handling
interlibrary
loan transactions for online journal articles when the
license
agreement forbids electronic transmission of the article.
We
recently signed two separate license agreements which,
according
to my interpretation, do not allow us to fulfill ILL
requests
unless we print out the article and send it via snail mail.
Wording of the license from the first publisher: "The
Subscriber
may print and deliver Excerpts to fulfill requests as part
of the
practice commonly known as 'interlibrary loan' from
non-commercial libraries located within the same country as
the
Subscriber."
Wording of the license from the second publisher: "The
subscribing Institution's library facilities are permitted
to use
printouts from the electronic versions of the Journals, but
not
manipulable electronic files, for the purpose of
inter-library
loan, subject to the limitations of Section 108 of the
Copyright
Act of 1976 and the CONTU Guidelines related thereto."
If we get an ILL request for an article we have only in
print,
our current practice is to scan the article and send it to
the
requesting library as a PDF document. As I interpret these
licenses, we may neither send the article from the e-version
nor
scan the print and send it as a PDF for ILL purposes.
1. How do you interpret these clauses?
2. Would you consider a PDF file as
"manipulable"?
3. Have you had any success in negotiating more liberal ILL
clauses?
Beth Jacoby
Collection Development Librarian
Schmidt Library
York College of Pennsylvania
York, PA 17405-7199
Email: bjacoby ycp.edu
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