opening interlibrary loan to open access tina baich ill discussion group ala midwinter meeting...

Opening Interlibrary Loan to Open Access

Tina BaichILL Discussion Group

ALA Midwinter MeetingJanuary 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

2007/2008 2008/2009 2009/2010 2010/20110

5000

10000

15000

20000

25000

16,638

23,210 23,42222,098

14,211

20,86721,308

20,094

Borrowing Requests Submitted and Filled

Submitted

Filled

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 email

Open access borrowing requests

FY 2010 FY 20110

50100150200250300350400450500

318

487

Open access borrowing requests by document type

Article

Book / Chapter

Thesis

Conference

Report

Gov Doc / Patent

Other

0 50 100 150 200 250 300

FY 2011FY 2010

Open access article requests

E-journal Portal

Journals

Universities / US Libraries

Other digital repositories

Other

Author / Faculty

Organizations

Government

0 20 40 60 80 100 120

101

81

52

51

35

34

33

18

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

US - Flor

ida

Canad

a

US - Ohio

US - Tex

as

US - Virg

inia

US - Cali

forn

ia

US - Nor

th C

aroli

na

US - M

issou

ri

US - Pen

nsylv

ania

Austra

lia

US - Geo

rgia

US - M

assa

chus

etts

US - M

aryla

nd

US - New

Jer

sey

US - Ten

ness

ee

US - Uta

h

US - W

iscon

sin

US - W

ashin

gton

US - M

ississ

ippi

South

Afri

ca

US - Okla

hom

a

US - Io

wa

US - Ken

tuck

y

US - W

est V

irgini

a

US - Onli

ne

US - Lo

uisian

a

The N

ethe

rland

s

US - Alab

ama

US - New

Yor

k

US - Illi

nois

US - Sou

th C

aroli

na0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

ETDs Located by Country & US State

Open access conference paper requests

All Academic / Political Research Online

Conference / Organization website

Philanthropy Resources Online

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

46

23

12

Top Three Repositories

Countering a false expectation

If more content is freely available, ILL requests

will go down.FALSE

Open access resources• All Academic.

http://convention3.allacademic.com/one/www/research/index.php?

• arXiv.org. http://arxiv.org/• CiteSeerX. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/• Gallica. http://gallica.bnf.fr/• Google Books. http://books.google.com/• HathiTrust. http://www.hathitrust.org/• Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/• OhioLINK ETD Center. http://etd.ohiolink.edu/• Political Research Online.

http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/prol/prol01/• Theses Canada Portal.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/

References• Connaway, L.S. & Dickey, T.J. 2010, The Digital Information Seeker: Report of

the Findings from Selected OCLC, RIN, and JISC User Behaviour Projects. Available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/reports/2010/digitalinformationseekerreport.pdf.

•  Connaway, L.S., Dickey, T.J. & Radford, M.L. 2011, “‘If it is too inconvenient, I’m not going after it.:’ convenience as a critical factor in information-seeking behaviors,” Library and Information Science Research, vol. 33, pp. 179-190. Pre-print available at: http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/connaway-lisr.pdf.

•  Kohn, K. 2006, “Finding it free: tips and techniques for avoiding borrowing fees and locating online publicly available materials”, Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 57-65.

•  Jackson, M.E. 2004, Assessing ILL/DD Services: New Cost-Effective Alternatives. Greenwood, Westport, Connecticut.

•  Martin, R.A. 2010, “Finding free and open access resources: a value-added service for patrons”, Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 189-200.

• Morrison, H.G. 2006, “The dramatic growth of open access: implications and opportunities for resource sharing. Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 95-107.

•  Pennsylvania State University 2010, “About CiteSeerX,” Available at: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/about/site;jsessionid=440EFBF183647A637F0950A3DDEE89CE.

•  Suber, P. 2010, Open Access Overview, Available at: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm.

•  Weible, C.L. & Janke, K.L. 2011, Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook. American Library Association, Chicago.

THANK YOU!

Questions? Comments?

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