Opening Interlibrary Loan to Open Access Tina Baich ILL Discussion Group ALA Midwinter Meeting January 21, 2011
Agenda Overview of ILL operations Open access defined Open access workflow Data on open access requests
Overview of ILL operations Community served Staffing Request volume / trends
Borrowing Volume
Open access defined Digital, online content Free of charge Free of most copyright and licensing restrictions
Tracking open access requests Timeframe Tracking began February 2009 Presenting data from July 2009 to June 2011 Workflow
Workflow: ILLiad custom queues
Workflow: ILLiad custom
Open access borrowing requests
Open access borrowing requests by document type
Open access article requests
Open access book /book chapter requests Publication dates ranging from 1582 to 2009 Top departments History Philanthropic Studies Religious Studies Top repositories Google Books Internet Archive HathiTrust
Open access thesis requests
Open access conference paper requests
Countering a false expectation If more content is freely available, ILL requests will go down. FALSE
Open access resources All Academic. arXiv.org. CiteSeerX. Gallica. Google Books. HathiTrust. Internet Archive. OhioLINK ETD Center. Political Research Online. Theses Canada Portal.
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