1. Lake Effects Resource Sharing in the Medical Library World: New Trends, New Challenges Presenter: Kevin O’Brien University of Illinois at Chicago Health Sciences Library https://webmeeting.nih.gov/lakeeffects/

2. GMR LAKE EFFECTS WEBINAR APRIL 18, 2013 KEVIN O’BRIEN UIC LIBRARY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES ASSISTANT SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ACCESS SERVICES LIBRARIAN Resource Sharing in the Medical Library World: New Trends, New Challenges

3. New Environment of Resource Sharing Developments in publishing and scholarly biomedical communication are challenging the legacy model of interlibrary loan (traditional library-to-library shipping and receiving) Publishing world: rise of e-books and e-journals; embargo periods for e-journal content; restrictive (or vague) licenses for e-resources Scholarly communication: rapid appearance of citations in literature databases, rise of open access movement, NIH mandate; recent (February 2013) White House memorandum on expanding public access to federally funded research

4. A Curious Feature of This Moment: Decline in Demand The National Library of Medicine reports a consistent decline in the number of Docline requests since the peak year of 2002 Reasons?

5. Some Trends to Anticipate Increase in (relative) amount of freely-available literature in PMC and elsewhere Rise in pay-per-view model for document delivery fulfillment Rise in patron-driven acquisition

6. Tips to Avoid Overlooking Free Content Be aware that not all free content is identified as such in Pubmed (two categories: international medical journals, health policy literature) Be aware of freely available theses and dissertations in institutional repositories Familiarize yourself with large-scale digital libraries of freely-available scanned books and journals (Internet Archive, HathiTrust Digital Library, Medical Heritage Library, Biodiversity Heritage Library)

7. Further Reading See Special Issue of Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and Electronic Reserve, “E-Resources Management in Interlibary Loan and Reserves” Vol 22, Issue 3-4, 2012

8. Resource Sharing Events at MLA 2013 Docline Users Group Meeting (Sunday, May 5, 2:00 p.m., Hynes Convention Center, Room 310) Resource Sharing SIG Meeting (Monday, May 6, 4:30 p.m., Hynes Convention Center, Room 204) ***Check program to verify event time and room number***