Document delivery and D Guide - Resources and Review

Major research programme which emerged from the Follett Report. The programme has resulted in around 60 projects in a number of areas: Access to Network Resources, Digitisation, Electronic Document Delivery, Electronic Journals, Electronic Short Loan, Images, On Demand Publishing, Preprints, Quality Assurance, Supporting Studies, Training and Awareness.
 
Allows users to browse bibliographic databases, order documents, and have them delivered to their workstation. Also includes transaction management which supports both journal licensing arrangements and payment systems. Part of the Electronic Libraries programme.
 
Article detailing an Internet based document delivery service, NACSIS
ELS, established in April 1997. The copyright charging strategy is discussed for two models, an individual user model and an institutional use model. Other issues related to electronic journals are also mentioned such as security protection measures, academic society activities over the Internet, and issues for the establishment of globally distributed digital libraries.
 
Provides access to numerous official documents relevant to the UK, arranged by date, title, department, or category type. Information includes the 2000 budget, as well as publications from the Scottish and Welsh Offices, much of which is available in full text format.
 
Annotated links to projects, products, and services which are investigating or providing access to individual articles or chapters from journals, magazines, or newspapers, without individual or institutional subscription. Entries are organised in categories that characterise the scope of service.
 
Organisation for interlending and document supply personnel set up to enable library and information workers who are involved in ILL and document supply to exchange ideas and views and also to raise the profile of this area of work nationally and internationally.
 
Service which provides access to a range of full text academic electronic journals. There is a simple search interface for the database, with bibliographic details and full text available in PDF. Payment or subscription required for document delivery.
 
Paper describing the concept of a digital library from the user's perspective, based on information flow and organisation. An explanation is given using a three
layer model of information distribution, focusing on the information provider, information broker and information user.
 
Topics covered by the reports include electronic document delivery, open systems and electronic data interchange.
 
Abstracts of papers presented at a 1998 conference to determine the effectiveness of document delivery services and ways in which they may be improved. Technical, management, legal and financial issues are discussed.
 
The Electronic Library, IT and staff Education Project was established to enhance service delivery for distance learners. On completion, ELITE has now resulted in an improved electronic library service which offers interactive Web pages, electronic delivery of documents, email communications, net and video conferencing, MOOs, and chat facilities for students affiliated with the University of Leicester.
 
The EDDIS project has been funded under the Electronic Libraries Programme to produce an integrated end user driven identification, holdings discovery, ordering and electronic supply service for document delivery.
 
Index to sites and documents dealing with copyright and document delivery in libraries.
 
Project aiming to set up the cooperative structure to provide a document delivery service to the users of academic libraries in London and Manchester.
 
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