Re: Ejournals and ILL

Hi Beth,

We have only one license that permits us to send the
electronic 
copy of the article from the database. Since other
agreements 
specify that we may use a print copy for interlibrary loan 
purposes, we print a copy of the pdf from the database, then
scan 
and send the document through Ariel, as is our usual
practice.

Sue Nelson
Instructional Services Librarian
Snowden Library
Lycoming College
Williamsport, PA 17701
(570) 321-4352
nelsonlycoming.edu


>>> "Beth Jacoby" <bjacobyycp.edu> 2/25/2008 6:48 PM >>>

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: bjacobyycp.edu