Basic Online Searching Alternatives for Document Delivery Session 13. Péter Jacsó Péter Jacsó LIS 663 Fall 2015

You can do all the magic search tricks, but …. The ultimate goal is getting the best documents Your library may have them but shrinking budget comes with shrinking chances Typical students cannot afford to pay $40-$50 for a single article from Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Emerald, Taylor & Francis ILL is costly & time-consuming to both parties Publishers often prohibit ILL contractually Document Delivery Services have rip-off fees Jacsó

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Open Access can be of greatest help Gov doc (national & foreign) - Born to be free (OA) Jacsó

Intergovernmental agencies (UNxxx, WHO, FAO, OECD) Some publishers – using OA check-box (Elsevier, Wiley, Springer [backdoor] Bigger business, specific sites new/dedicated URLs Jacsó Many scholarly & professional publishers

Jacsó Da best directory & search engine 10,000 journals, 60% with searchable articles, > ~ 2 million articles

EBSCO – as content + service provider FT through UH automatic OA repositories Jacsó

Individual authors self archiving